Curriculum
An ambitious, nurturing and personalised curriculum that helps pupils feel safe, build confidence and prepare for life beyond school.
We know our pupils as individuals, including their strengths and their barriers to learning. Our bespoke curriculum and teaching approaches are carefully designed to remove those barriers, making learning accessible, meaningful and successful for every child.
At The White House School, our ambitious, nurturing and highly personalised curriculum is designed to make learning possible again. By removing barriers through adaptive teaching, integrated therapeutic support and meaningful life experiences, we enable every pupil to feel safe, belong, achieve and thrive. Together, we develop the knowledge, confidence, independence and life skills needed for pupils to be Ready to Learn and Prepared for Life.
Ready
Prepared
Our USP evolves around the central focus of supporting our pupils with emotional regulation, to ensure they are ‘ready to learn’. This involves bespoke positive behaviour support strategies as well as regular mindful activities and teaching approaches.
Alongside this, our dedication to our pupils is to ensure that they are ‘prepared for life’, in whatever that looks like for them on an individual basis. For some, it may be in the world of work. For others, it will be most important that they can have sustainable and independent leisure activities and the skills developed to be able to access their local community.
Our curriculum centres around:
- Preparation for adulthood
- Community inclusion
- Sustainable leisure skills (for all pupils, but particularly those who may not access employment)
- Independent living skills
- Life skills
- Emotional Regulation
- Communication development
Common threads that run across both pathways are:
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Emotional Readiness
Ensuring pupils are supported to regulate their emotions, build resilience and reduce episodes of challenging behaviour. -
Social, Communication and Community Inclusion Skills
Supporting pupils to foster effective communication skills and collaboration within and outside school. -
Emotional Readiness
Ensuring pupils are supported to regulate their emotions, build resilience and reduce episodes of challenging behaviour. -
Academic Preparedness
Provide pupils with the foundational skills for academic success, at their personal learning level.
Curriculum map
View our full curriculum map for more detail about how learning is structured across The White House School.
Discovery Pathway
Curiosity Pathway
“The school’s vision to provide an effective curriculum that supports pupils’ academic and social and emotional development is clear.”