Formal Curriculum
Primary Provision, Ages 5 to 11
A calm, structured start for younger children who are finding school hard. Relationships first. Learning follows quickly once a child feels safe.
Who this is for
When school has started to feel too big
Children come to us for all sorts of reasons. Worry about the school gate. Big feelings that are hard to manage in a busy classroom. Additional needs that a mainstream setting has not been able to meet yet. Long absences that have left gaps and knocked their confidence.
None of that says anything about the child. It says something about the fit between the child and the room they were in. Our job is to change the room, take the pressure down, and let them find out what they can do.
The curriculum
What a primary week covers
Every timetable is different, but four things run through all of them. Each is taught at the level the child is actually at, not the level a year group says they should be.
English
Reading, writing and communication, pitched so that a child succeeds rather than struggles.
Mathematics
Number and problem solving, built up carefully from what the child can already do.
Emotional wellbeing
Naming feelings, learning to manage them, and building positive relationships with adults and other children.
Curiosity and creativity
Time to make things, ask questions and enjoy learning again. For many children this is where confidence comes back first.
Our approach
Small wins, on purpose
Lessons are planned so that children finish them. Not because the work is easy, but because it is pitched exactly where they are. A child who has spent a year feeling behind needs evidence that they are not, and the quickest way to give them that is a task they can complete.
Children move at their own pace here. There is no class to keep up with and nothing to catch up on.
What this looks like day to day
- A calm, structured and nurturing room
- Familiar adults who know the child well
- Clear routines, with room to adjust them
- Progress shared regularly with parents and carers
- The programme reviewed with the school or Local Authority
Three ways to learn
At our centre, at home, or online
Some children need to be somewhere other than school for a while. Alternative Provision gives them that, arranged with the school, the Local Authority or the family.
Others are better served by keeping the setting they know and adding support around it. That is where Home Tuition and Online Tuition come in, with a tutor working around the week a child already has.
If you are not sure which of those fits your child, say so when you call. Working that out is part of the conversation, not something you need to arrive with.
For the first time in years, my child actually looks forward to learning. The team took the time to understand them, and the difference in their confidence has been incredible.
Parent
Tell us about your child.
A first conversation is short and there is nothing to prepare. Call us, or send an enquiry and we will come back to you.