Enjoy achieving together…to be the best that we can be!
In the provision, we plan using the EQUALS curriculum which places the child at the centre of the curriculum.
Red Class
The semi-formal curriculum focuses on and promotes the individual needs and interests of the children and develops each individual wherever they are on their learning journey.
Alongside our curriculum, children work hard on their individual targets from either their SEN support plans or EHCP’s.
Enjoy achieving together…to be the best that we can be!
In the provision, we plan using the EQUALS curriculum which places the child at the centre of the curriculum.
Yellow Class
The formal curriculum focuses on and promotes the individual needs and interests of the children ensuring that children work at levels appropriate to their developmental stage.
Alongside our curriculum, children work hardon their individual targets from either their SEN support plans or EHCP’s.
Enjoy achieving together…to be the best that we can be!
In the provision, we plan using the EQUALS curriculum which places the child at the centre of the curriculum.
Blue Class
The formal curriculum focuses on and promotes the individual needs and interests of the children ensuring that children work at levels appropriate to their developmental stage.
Alongside our curriculum, children work hard on their individual targets from either their SEN support plans or EHCP’s.
Enjoy achieving together…to be the best that we can be!
In the provision, we plan using the EQUALS curriculum which places the child at the centre of the curriculum.
Red Class
The semi-formal curriculum focuses on and promotes the individual needs and interests of the children and develops each individual wherever they are on their learning journey.
Alongside our curriculum, children work hard on their individual targets from either their SEN support plans or EHCP’s.
Enjoy achieving together…to be the best that we can be!
In the provision, we plan using the EQUALS curriculum which places the child at the centre of the curriculum.
Yellow Class
The formal curriculum focuses on and promotes the individual needs and interests of the children ensuring that children work at levels appropriate to their developmental stage.
Alongside our curriculum, children work hardon their individual targets from either their SEN support plans or EHCP’s.
Enjoy achieving together…to be the best that we can be!
In the provision, we plan using the EQUALS curriculum which places the child at the centre of the curriculum.
Blue Class
The formal curriculum focuses on and promotes the individual needs and interests of the children ensuring that children work at levels appropriate to their developmental stage.
Alongside our curriculum, children work hard on their individual targets from either their SEN support plans or EHCP’s.
Long Term Plans for our Provision
In September 2014, an additionally resourced provision (ARP) called the Base was opened at Usworth Colliery Primary. Its purpose is to meet the needs of pupils who have a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) who meet the criteria for entry set by Together for Children. To access a provision place, it must be named on the child’s EHCP. Following an expansion of the provision in September 2023, the capacity of the Base is now 26 places.
Visits to look around the provision are by appointment only with the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator (SENDCo) Mrs Jones. You can contact her through the school office: 0191 4178888.
Our pupils with SEND make progress against their individual starting points, both academically and socially, because high expectations and suitable adaptations are in place. They are taught in smaller classes and have access to ASD specific learning environments which also meet their sensory requirements. All pupils have individual timetables tailored to their strengths and special needs. Pupils may have access to interventions such as a speaking and listening group, emotional literacy or fine and gross motor skills intervention such as Motor Skills United, depending on their needs.
The long-term goal for all of our pupils is for them to be as independent in everyday life as possible. A key part of this is being able to recognise and regulate their emotions and/or behaviours, through the use of carefully planned and taught coping mechanisms. We achieve this for our pupils with some of the following approaches:
>Visual support
>Social Stories
>Sensory regulation opportunities throughout the day
>Interventions for emotional literacy and stress such as the Friends Resilience programme
>Access to the Equals Curriculum for pupils with SEND who are consistently working below the National Curriculum
>Opportunities to access the mainstream school for integration when appropriate for individuals
Our school has several large outdoor spaces which our pupils love to access. We have trim trails to help gross motor skills development and specialist outdoor exercise equipment. We have an enclosed wild garden, sand and water play areas, interactive electronic games, climbing equipment and a forest school.
