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Special Educational Needs (SEN)

At Samakee, we place great importance on identifying special educational needs (SEN) early so that we can help children as quickly as possible. Once it has been decided that your child has SEN, staff working with your child take into account the Samakee SEN Policy. The policy describes how we help children with special educational needs at Samakee through a step-by-step or graduated approach.

Our graduated approach recognises that children and young people learn in different ways and can have different kinds or levels of SEN. So increasingly, step-by-step, specialist expertise is brought in to help our school with the difficulties that a child may have.

If your child does not seem to be making enough progress or needs a lot more extra help, the school may contact parents so that an assessment can be carried out for your child by a Developmental Paediatrician at Merak Clinic. This is only required for a very small number of children and is only necessary if the school cannot provide all the help that your child needs. It is usually only required for children who have the most significant and long-term special educational needs which need a very detailed assessment.

The approach may include:
an individually-designed learning programme
extra help from a learning support assistant who may be assigned to your child. This occurs if it is decided by the multidisciplinary team that your child is unable to access the curriculum independently. The decision is reached and agreed on by all people working with the child.
being taught individually or in a small group for regular short periods
drawing up a personal plan in liaison with Merak and or our Inclusion Leader, including setting targets for improvement, regular review of progress before setting new targets.
Merak HomeSchool meetings with parents, carers, Merak therapists and teachers who work with your child.

Accreditation

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St. Andrews Samakee: Globally Outstanding

Discover our internationally recognised, outstanding performance across all key categories.

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St. Andrews Samakee: Globally Outstanding

Discover our internationally recognised, outstanding performance across all key categories.

At Samakee, a formal accreditation visit is carried out triennially by a team of qualified and officially recognised UK education inspectors, who evaluate our school against eight key internationally accepted categories of performance.

In each category, Samakee has been judged to be outstanding, and for the fourth consecutive time, we have received a Three-Star Gold Standard accreditation award. This, the highest award, is a truly outstanding achievement. No other school in the world has yet to receive four consecutive Gold Standard Accreditation awards, and we are delighted with our school’s continuing stellar levels of achievement.

 

Education Development Trust - ISQM

In May 2012 St. Andrews International School Samakee, was awarded ‘Outstanding School’ status by a UK accrediting team and walked away with the first-ever ‘Gold accreditation’ award – the first International school worldwide to merit such an achievement. In May 2015, May 2018 and May 2023, Samakee was again awarded OUTSTANDING, and we are extremely proud to receive four consecutive Gold Standard Accreditation awards. We are truly delighted with this amazing achievement.

EDT is one of only four organisations who the Thai Education Ministry authorises to carry out international accreditations and inspections in Thailand. EDT is a UK-based organisation working throughout the UK and internationally in 40 countries.

ISQM Accrediation Report

British Schools Overseas - BSO

Samakee is also recognised by the UK Government as an outstanding ‘British School Overseas’. The BSO award enables the school to have a pronounced presence on the UK Government Education Website, allowing parents with children already attending a British school to learn about the exceptional standard of education we provide.

Samakee BSO Report

Thai Ministry of Education

Samakee is licensed by the Thai Ministry of Education and accredited through ONESCA (Sor Mor Sor), the international schools inspection body.