Small class sizes enable us to support each student to achieve their true potential. Classes are much smaller than mainstream schools and typically have no more than eight pupils. This means that our young people have substantial time with staff members, who are able to provide the more intensive support that helps them to quickly achieve and make progress. We have high staff to student ratios and some of our young people are supported on a one-to-one basis. The classes also make possible the highly personalised learning we deliver, tailored to meet the individual needs of each student.
An ambitious curriculum
Our curriculum is highly ambitious, specialist and designed to ensure that every pupil’s needs are fully met.
The specialist curriculum has been designed and is sequenced to ensure all learners have access to a knowledge and skills-based curriculum, one which meets their individual needs and goes beyond, the National Curriculum.
The classroom environments have been designed by our teaching team with specialist input from our multi-disciplinary team to meet our pupils’ special needs. This includes areas such as: sensory processing needs, the need for movement breaks, anxiety issues and social communication.
Learning opportunities, activities and resources vary considerably across each phase and between individuals. This is to ensure that all learning styles are fully met and that all our pupils are being challenged to grow and develop socially, emotionally and academically with the delivery of an ambitious but supportive therapeutic curriculum.
To read our curriculum proposal, please click here.