SEN Support
We offer a specialist learning provision which emphasises the development of core academic understanding, encourages creativity, celebrates outdoor learning and promotes the growth of essential life skills, including mindfulness and emotional literacy. Our academic focus is balanced with consistent and specialist pastoral and therapeutic support, to nurture pupils’ self-esteem, personal, social and emotional development. We are committed to each pupil’s holistic development for them to reach their true academic potential in preparation for their next setting and adult life.
growth
Our Therapeutic Support
Where pupils have identified provision specified in their EHCP, we have a team of Therapy Assistants and work with our Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapist to meet our pupils’ needs and offer a variety of therapies.
Communication & Interaction Interventions
- Self-awareness & self-esteem
- Body language & the way we talk
- Conversational skill
- Making & maintaining friendships
- Assertiveness
LEGO-Based Therapy
A social development program that uses LEGO activities to support the development of a wide range of social skills within a group setting. Playing with LEGO in a therapy setting promotes social interaction, turn-taking skills, sharing, collaborative problem-solving and the learning of concepts. It can be used to target goals around social skills, language and motor skills.
Speech and Language
Our speech and language therapist will assess our pupils and devise a bespoke programme which will be delivered by our Therapy Assistants. Programmes are reviewed regularly by our speech and language therapist.
Social, Emotional and Mental Health Interventions
Zones of Regulation
A proactive, skills-based approach that uses simple, common language to understand, talk about, and teach emotional regulation. Zones of Regulation is integrated into our weekly curriculum and helps pupils to recognize and organise their feelings; states of alertness and energy levels into four coloured zones – blue, green, yellow and red. It is a systematic framework with a developmental sequence of lessons; a consistent, metacognitive pathway to follow for self-regulation.
Emotional Regulation
we have a trained Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) to help children develop the skills they need to manage emotions, build relationships, and thrive socially and emotionally. ELSAs are trained and regularly supervised by an Educational Psychologist. Our pupils benefit from ELSA support if they need a little extra help with:
🌈Managing feelings such as anger, sadness, or anxiety
💬 Building confidence and self-esteem
👭 Developing friendships and social skills
🎯 Coping with life changes such as bereavement, family separation, or moving school
🧩 Learning how to solve problems and deal with conflict
Drawing & Talking
A safe and gentle therapeutic approach, which provides an effective way for pupils to process emotional pain or trauma they may be experiencing. This may be through drawing or through sand play. It is a short-term, time limited, pro-active intervention that enables the pupil to express their feelings differently from ordinary verbal language.
Think Bricks
an intervention that empowers and inspires pupils to creatively build symbolic models to help them to communicate their thoughts and feelings. The box of specially selected metaphors allows young people to convey their own personal feelings, thoughts, hopes and wishes in a powerful and constructive manner. It can support pupils to build resilience and help them to understand their thoughts, feelings, worries, aspirations, self-regulation and set goals.
Social, Emotional and Mental Health Interventions
Sensory Circuits
A sensory integration intervention. It involves a sequence of physical activities that are designed to start with alerting activities, move to an organising phase and then finally to a calming phase. The sensory circuit aims to facilitate sensory processing to help children regulate and organise their senses to achieve the ‘just right’ or optimum level of alertness required for effective learning.
OT Programme
Some children and young people will have bespoke OT programmes designed for them by an Occupational Therapist. This may also include the need to purchase specialist equipment. Our Therapy Assistants will deliver programmes. Programmes can also support emotional regulation and fine and gross motor skills.
Discovery Pathway
Curiosity Pathway