The curriculum is designed to:
✔ Re -engage all pupils as learners
✔ Enhance the self – perception of pupils as learners
✔ Inspire and motivate pupils, fostering a curiosity to learn
✔ Enable all pupils to make progress from their individual starting points and to have success in learning underpinned by a focus on developing pupils’ social development, emotional wellbeing and mental health
✔ Focus on developing pupil’s social, emotional and mental health
✔ Have a strong curriculum focus on the facilitating subjects of English and Mathematics
✔ Allow pupils to explore subjects beyond the core curriculum in a thematic approach
✔ Support all pupils to lead healthy and safe lifestyles
✔ Support all pupils to develop the skills, behaviours and attitudes that will enable them to reintegrate to and be successful in the next phase of their education
In- depth understanding of attachment theory, child development and neuroscience underpins and informs all aspects of The Beacon. Using this evidenced based research and theory ensures the greatest outcomes for our learners (for both academic and personal development).
The principles that underpin our pedagogy and all curriculum learning are:
The relationships are key
Children’s learning is understood developmentally
The Unit provides a symbolic secure base creating the sense of safety to enable pupils to explore and learn
The importance of containment through attunement and validation for the development of well being
All behaviour is communication
The importance of transition in children’s lives
The PSHE curriculum and embedded SMSC will ensure that The Beacon fulfills all our statutory obligations under equality legislation.