Education and Qualifications
All pupils at The Wenlock School will have access to an education that is personalised, engaging and will encompass a purposeful and balanced curriculum. We believe the word ‘curriculum’ should be interpreted in its widest meaning. It is every planned learning experience the pupils have as a member of the school, both learnt formally within a lesson and informally outside the classroom throughout the whole school day. It is all the planned activities that we organise in order to promote learning, personal growth and development. Teachers, Instructors and support staff structure these experiences to ensure that they have the most positive effect on the attainment, progress and personal development of all pupils.
The overall aim of the curriculum is to enable all the young people at The Wenlock School to become Successful Learners, Confident Individuals and Responsible Citizens.
At the school we offer a flexible, personalised, engaging skills-based curriculum providing both choice and challenge focussed on developing emotional literacy, core subject knowledge and offering a wide range of accredited outcomes. There is a strong focus on the social and emotional aspects of learning and opportunities will be absorbing, rewarding, effectively differentiated and the teaching styles will be diverse. The curriculum is delivered by qualified, skilled, empathetic and experienced staff operating in a warm, safe, nurturing and state of the art learning environment.
As part of the admissions process and after a place has been confirmed a range of data and information is forwarded to education staff prior to the young person arriving. This information will include education, social and medical history, attendance, safeguarding issues and involvement of other agencies. The Education, Health and Care Plan will provide further information relating to current attainment as a minimum in core subjects.
On admission to the school each young person will complete a full baseline assessment. Data from this assessment will be distributed to education staff and will reflect current cognitive ability. Where the Education, Health and Care Plan indicates, or where the generic baseline assessment indicates, there will be further targeted screening, where necessary with specialist support. The baseline data is used to set realistic targets for progress across the curriculum and in relation to the key learning needs of the individual. The targets form a key part of individual plans including education plans, behaviour plans, positive handling plans and individual risk assessments. Pupils start to make choices about their learning in Key Stage 3 where we introduce an options programme to support learning in the core subject areas, this follows into Key Stage 4/5 to allow every opportunity for pupils to further personalise their learning and their timetable.