Community integration supports our learners to fully access the community, providing meaningful life experiences, applicable to future living.
Learners will develop skills in knowing themselves; building confidence, recognising self-worth, owning problem-solving strategies, and knowing who can help. This curriculum learning area promotes skills in team building, working with others to achieve a single goal, assertiveness, having a voice, negotiation, accepting others’ opinions and resilience.
There is a focus on helping learners understand their emotional and sensory needs, where the multidisciplinary team supports learners to apply self-regulation techniques.
All learners access and improve their engagement with the public community, including a comprehensive travel training scheme. Learners are encouraged to plan and organise access to community areas or activities to experience inclusive citizenship, leisure interests, social autonomy, safety, and self-advocacy, forming part of our PSHE programme.
PSHE
We deliver weekly PSHE (personal, social, health, economic) education sessions.
Tutors and specialist staff deliver key topics such as:
- friends and relationships
- respecting others
- get healthy
- culture
- our history
- understanding ourselves
- rights and responsibilities
- disabilities and benefits.
Relationships and sex education is planned according to learner need and delivered in small groups with an awareness of sensitivities.
