Within all our curriculum options, we protectively teach the skills that underpin effective learning and relationship building; promoting emotional health and wellbeing.
The curriculum options we offer provide our students with the opportunity to practice new skills in an environment where they feel safe, try new things and learn more about themselves.
Our Curriculum is person centred, linked in to students EHCPs, and focused on aspirations and enrichment. Designed to stretch and challenge young people, our approach to learning and development is inclusive, including and supporting the decisions of students around where they want to go and what they want to achieve.
In the first 6 weeks of when a student joins us, we undergo asessments to ensure we have the correct plans and curiculum alignment in place, and build targets for our students to work towards, with students included in the decision making process.
Independent Living Skills Curriculum
The Independent Living Skills curriculum is designed to develop learners’ readiness for independent or shared community living. This is achieved by focusing on the skills required to live as independently as possible and to make a successful transition out of college. For all learners, this will involve identifying long-term transitional aims to ensure that the skills they develop can be successfully transferred into their post college placement. To teach Independent Living Skills, we have 2 dedicated ILS Rooms.
Communication and Behaviour Curriculum
Our autism specific curriculum is designed to meet the needs of learners with complex communication and behavioural difficulties. This is a highly structured and experiential learning programme which develops and reinforces adaptive behaviours, communication, social awareness and functional skills. The curriculum is based upon a total communication philosophy, with the utilisation of a wide range of tools and methods to develop learners’ understanding and help them to be understood.
We are fortunate to have the support of our Positive Behaviour Lead, for both staff and students, who manages and promotes positive behaviour and attitude throghout the college, and equips staff and students with the skills and experience to manage their own behaviours, teaching interventions students can use themselves, building trust with our staff, and reduce incidents.
The Positive Behaviour Lead delivers training, creates Positive Behaviour Support plans, manages risks, embedding coaching on the ground. This means Care plans can be updated responsively and responsibly, through the sharing of learnings.
We are delighted that students many that arrived on 5:1 ratio of staff to student are now on a 2:1 ratio of staff to students, as a result of the Positive Behaviour support they have received.
