Greenside provides education to learners with very complex needs. All have EHCPs and the majority present with Severe Learning Difficulties. Over 70% of our learners have Autism that impact their lives and 15% have profound needs and disabilities.
Every learner is different. It is hard to compare and group our learners. Our curriculum flexes between a personalised detailed understanding of the learner) and an inclusive pathway model that allows creative, engaging learning to be developed that matches their developmental potential. This article explores the rationale behind our curriculum and reasoning behind its decisions (https://my.chartered.college/impact_article/designing-a-curriculum-the-challenge-faced-by-many-specialist-settings/)
At Greenside we are proud of how our pathways prepare our learners for their future lives. From a detailed, personalised Early Years to our community-based Preparing for Adulthood pathway. Each decision made is rooted on a learners EHCP outcomes and mapping these to a pathway’s themes and lessons. Together they offer our learners a breadth of learning opportunities that allow progression towards a fulfilled future.
Each class is within a pathway. Each pathway is led by a Senior Teacher who is responsible for ensuring a quality and creative provision is maintained. These embedded leads ensure each pathway sequentially fits into learners personal school life journey. Through a constant formative assessment approach, we are confident each learner has a breadth of experience and learning that supports their own detailed developmental path.
We are proud that communication is central to all our pathways. The development of communication is fundamentally important for our complex cohort, many of which struggle to communicate their wants and wishes. We understand that majority of our cohort are at the early stages of their communication development.
Information below explains our curriculum, outlined in our handbook, how we assess and more information on who we develop communication and early reading in our school.
Click here for the Greenside Curriculum Policy
My Curriculum
There are 4 key areas of our curriculum that enable a personalised approach
My Body - Sensory and physical needs
My Communication – Interaction & sensory literacy
My Thinking – Cognition and understanding
My Wellbeing – Social, emotional wellbeing
These key aspects are not taught in isolation.
Each ‘my’ helps us as a school to focus on what is important for every learner. All curriculum topics and themes are threaded back to the core ‘4 my’s’ outlined above.
We aspire to create environments and plan lessons that promote engagement for all our learners and classes are grouped with this in mind.
Phases of the school are slightly different in their curriculums, a short summary of each phase is outlined below:
