Education Programmes
Our Aims
We fully support the ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda and this is reflected in our adoption of the five outcomes as headings for our educational aims.
Be Healthy
To provide opportunities where pupils can learn how to be physically and emotionally healthy and choose not to take illegal drugs and mistreat their minds and bodies.
- Our pupils follow a range of physical activities due to our links with the local leisure facilities.
- Our Personal Social Health and Citizenship Education (PSHCE) programme helps pupils develop skills and strategies to avoid conflict and acquire resilience, emotional confidence and social competence.
- We have links with the local health and education authorities to provide specialist and appropriate sex and drugs education through the care homes.
Be Safe
To provide a secure and stable environment where pupils feel cared for.
- Staff receive regular training in Child Protection and Health and Safety issues.
- We emphasise and use therapeutic arts programmes to explore sensitive issues around respect, personal safety and child protection.
- We have a robust anti-bullying policy at the centre.
- Our high staff / pupil ratio ensures that pupils are constantly supported in a safe and nurturing environment.
- We foster a community spirit which encourages positive relationships and empathy.
- Our residential colleagues, where appropriate, work with us to keep pupils safe outside school.
- Our citizenship programme ensures that each pupil is aware of the wider picture of anti-social behaviour, its human impact and the consequences of crime.
