There are many opportunities for re-learning with repetition integrated into the learning experience to ensure that knowledge and understanding is consolidated before we move forward. We recognise that many children with SpLD experience processing and memory challenges, so our teaching takes that into consideration.

Children are taught various strategies to compensate for any difficulties. For example, children learn the memory strategies of visualisation, rehearsal and repetition to deploy in lessons so the strategies eventually become internalised and intuitive.

Metacognitive strategies are incorporated across the school like asking children to reflect on their favoured learning style or to think about what learning style best suits a particular activity or task so they are invested in their own successful learning.

We follow a flexible approach which gives us the freedom to change our methods to enable progress. We do not give up, but instead, pursue various teaching strategies and techniques that will work for each and every child.

Small Groups

Students receive more attention than at a mainstream school due to small class sizes of no more than twelve children, and some smaller groups of even fewer students. Our smaller classes allow us to get to know every child and an overall adult/child ratio of 1: 3.5 ensures that teaching and therapy are truly personalised and effective.

Transdisciplinary Teaching

Teachers and therapists work collaboratively towards common objectives. Therapies are incorporated into lessons whilst curriculum goals are reflected in your child’s therapy sessions. This collaborative approach means that teachers and therapists learn from each other, sharing skills and developing professionally at the same time as benefiting the children enormously.

Multisensory Learning

We appeal to all the senses to engage children’s brains and enable new neural pathways to learning. From colour-coded columns for teaching arithmetic to writing vowel sounds with shaving foam we use pioneering methods and resources to overcome learning challenges.

Learning Strategies for Life

Our aim is to provide all children with techniques that they can apply throughout their lives. We have developed our own set of transformative strategies over the last forty years to support everything from memory to emotional regulation. From telling the time to times-tables. These strategies are taught early and reinforced daily in classroom practice.

Gaps are Plugged

We identify and plug gaps in learning before progressing further. For literacy these could include decoding strategies for reading, sound awareness skills, sight words, comprehension, and extended writing skills.  In Maths it could be new ways of laying out numerical problems, devising games for recalling numbers or tackling maths word problems. 

Tracking Success

There are regular Individual Education Plans (IEP) reviews and meetings across disciplines to monitor, discuss and support the children on an individual basis. We dedicate significant time to the Assess-Plan-Do-Review format as our teachers and therapists work hand-in-hand to boost your child’s progress.