Aims

• To be successful learners who enjoy and are beginning to contribute to their own learning and make progress and achieve.
• To develop individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.
• To enable learners to be valued and active members of their wider community, interacting and building positive relationships with others.

Focus for Learning

• Connecting and responding to key people and familiar activities – e.g. object permanence, Attention Autism, SCERTS, encountering / experiential, Intensive Interaction, building relationships.
• Making sense of the environments and world around them – routine, objects of reference, transitions, classroom environment, educational visits, recognising their impact on the environment e.g. cause and effect.
• Developing varied interests and motivators – flexibility of thought, experiential learning.
• Readiness for learning – emotional regulation, sensory regulation, routines, relationships (adults and peers)

Curriculum Areas

• Language and Communication
• PSED
• Physical Development including swimming
• Mathematics (linked to functional life skills)
• English (linked to functional life skills)
• Play
• British Values and SMSC
• RE
• Expressive Arts and Design
• Understanding the World
• Modern Foreign Languages (KS2 only)
• Emerging subject specific knowledge linked to National Curriculum subjects.