The Green Pathway supports young people with profound and multiple disabilities and significant barriers to learning.

Our curriculum and specialised provisions across the Green Pathway aim to promote quality of life, maximise pupil autonomy, support safe inclusion within the community, and encourage engagement and participation within a range of experiences.

 

The curriculum offer for young people on the Green Pathway is tailored towards their individual needs and personalised goals. The curriculum is informed by the Capabilities Approach, celebrating what our young people can do and can be. We aim to meet each young person where they are in the moment, following their direction and supporting them on their terms.

All students have PLPs (Personalised Learning Plans) and access our Experiential Curriculum and adapted PSHE Curriculum, alongside Life Skills, English for Life and Play Based Maths frameworks as appropriate. The PLPs are created through consultation with families and professionals to ensure targets are specific and relevant for each individual, and encapsulate what is most important for their development and quality of life.

The Experiential Curriculum is a process-based, holistic teaching and learning resource which has been specifically created with our young people at its centre. It features a range of sessions, activities and experiences which have been guided by specialised pedagogical approaches, relevant literature and professional input. The Experiential Curriculum is used as a means to support, practice and consolidate other personalised outcomes or skills through meaningful, motivating and multisensory experiences. Through cross-curricular learning experiences, pupils have opportunities throughout the day to work on their personalised targets within different contexts. We recognise the importance of the shared connections between skills or experiences, the context of the experience and ensuring the experience of learning is always positive and highly motivating.

 

 

We provide an integrated care approach on Green Pathway, ensuring that meeting all physical and medical needs is not a barrier to education, but an opportunity to learn, become more independent and engage in positive experiences supported by those who know them well. We also work very closely with our Therapy and Nursing team, as well as other specialists from the Sensory Consortium to ensure we are offering the most comprehensive package of support for each young person that will evolve with them over time.

 

 

Many of our students are non-linguistic communicators and therefore we are focused upon developing a range of personalised interaction and communication strategies to support our young people to make meaningful choices, build important social connections and express their wants and needs.

 

 

Following class-based observations and assessments we use Earwig to capture the development and progress of our young people alongside the relevant frameworks. We use assessments (informed by discussions with class teams and wider professionals as needed) as a tool to understand the learning journey of each young person and provide further insight into how we can provide more targeted support to enable each to be successful.