Curriculum
The school’s curriculum is highly personalised. We support pupils to move forwards from their starting point.
If a student is staying in the hospital for more than a few days, they will begin their journey in our school, with a short series of baseline assessments. This, combined with, their age, feedback from student’s home school, our work with them in school sessions and other information (for example Education, Health and Care Plans) helps us to identify how to work with each student.
For some of our students, we are able to liaise closely with their home school and use work provided by the school to inform our lessons.
For others, we create short subject ‘Learning Pathways’. These are small groups of lessons that create coherent sequences linked to the National Curriculum or a subject specification, which can be adapted easily to better reflect the student’s current wellbeing and progress.
The benefit of a learning pathway is that our students can easily see how their lesson fits into a wider series of lessons and what they will be learning next, giving their sessions structure and meaning.
We also offer access to online ‘Learning Walls’ these will either be our general ‘Primary’ or ‘Secondary’, we also have subject specific ‘Learning Walls’ in the core subjects (English, Maths and Science). In some instances (for example, when a student will be staying in hospital for a prolonged period of time or returns regularly) we will create an individually tailored ‘learning wall’ that caters to the student’s specific learning.
Links to some of our Learning Walls can be found in the Links section of this webpage.