Concept Curriculum

Our Curriculum

Our vision 

Our values             

• Active Warmth
• Trust
• Curiosity
• Supportive challenge
• Reliability        

 Our mission                             

Students are referred to us when it is felt a systemic, therapeutic, family curriculum would be best placed to support their educational progress.  We are a short-term provision that works with the families systemically and therapeutically to support children, within their family system,  to develop their view of themselves as a successful learner, integral part of their home and school community and a positive member of society. Students gain the skills they need to support them to be successful in their next suitable educational setting.

We deliver a curriculum that:

Is collaborative

Our curriculum has been developed in collaboration with staff, systemic family therapists and family systems. Parents and carers play an active role in their children’s learning journey in school as well as having access to their own systemic parent curriculum.

Reintegrates

Students complete a three phased curriculum. On arrival, they recover their safety, confidence and engagement in a learning environment. When they have established relationships and safety they rebuild academic, social and executive functioning skills to ready them for their next educational setting. In the final stage when students are ready to reintegrate, collaboration with the receiving school ensures both that the students and the receiving school are ready.

Is thematic

The concept based curriculum is built on 6 themes over a 2 year rolling cycle that encourage the development of well-rounded individuals who not only see themselves as learners but valued and influential members of society. Students explore high quality texts and cross curriculum links that focus on important, real world concepts with a hope to build the foundations of life-long learning in the family system.

Supports mentalisation

High quality texts are at the heart of the curriculum. Not only does this captivate but also develops mentalisation. One of the biggest barriers for our students is the understanding of themselves and others. Modelling empathy and understanding of others in terms of their feelings, needs, goals and thoughts through a reading and writing curriculum created in collaboration with the CLPE in turn supports students’ understanding of self.

Develops executive functioning

Our curriculum develops high-level cognitive processing skills that enable the ability to regulate  goal-directed thoughts and behaviours. Integrated into lessons, taught explicitly and reflected in feedback and praise, the development of 8 executive functions is central to our curriculum. Students learn how to learn.

Broadens and enriches

Alongside Reading, Writing, Maths, Science and PSHE lessons the curriculum enables students to further develop their executive functioning skills in a range of skills based sessions both on and offsite.

Examples of these include: Equine therapy, sessions in a music studio, P.E, Swimming, Art and Trail running.