Specialist Intervention Curriculum – The Hub
"By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man; body, mind and spirit."
- Mahatma Gandhi.
Our mission is to provide first-rate guidance and support to our students by taking into account their individual needs to understand what they need in order to reach their potential.
Early Help Support
We have an inclusive policy at Aylward Academy and we think it is of absolute importance that all or our young people are able to access all of the activated our school offer. We also understand that a partnership with parents is vital for the health, wellbeing and learning for our learners. We make it a policy to liaise and plan with parents where needed to ensure access to our extra-curricular activities.
We provide early help support called The Hub.
Specialist Intervention Curriculum – The Hub
The Aims of The Hub
The Hub is designed to support in removing barriers to learning by providing an opportunity for individual, diagnostic and therapeutic work to identify strategies which advise reasonable adjustments for quality first teaching. This involves working effectively with individual students who are experiencing significant difficulties, their parents/carers, school staff as well as external agencies in order to identify and overcome the barriers preventing their learning. In turn, we aim to offer appropriate support to assist them in achieving their effective reintegration back into a learning environment.
We aim to challenge students to develop essential behaviour for learning skills, to develop self-belief, improve self-esteem and to re-engage with learning in mainstream lessons in the Academy. We also work to increase the students’ responsibility through target setting, self-reflection, monitoring and evaluation.
We ensure that young people can have an opportunity to gain access to an appropriate curriculum, adapted to meet their individual needs and differences by means of a detailed assessment of their learning, social and emotional needs. The welcoming environment aims to help provide positive messages about self-respect and achievement.
Support Provided
Preventative work and Early Help
Early intervention is crucial to maximising the potential for a student to bring about a change in their behaviour and to re-engage with their schooling. To this end, the Hub will work closely with staff to identify students in need of support in order to assist them within their mainstream provision, wherever possible. The Hub will be supported by an on-site Educational Psychologists allowing diagnostic work and supporting the team with early help.
Hub Provision
Individual student programmes are time scaled according to their specific needs. Some students may need a longer and more intensive programme. This will be known as Hub Provision. Hub Provision will last up half a term and students with this provision may need further support from outside services. Daily and weekly reviews are implemented to monitor progress to help plan appropriate targets and engineer either a gradual or fast-track reintegration back into mainstream classes. Where a total reintegration is not appropriate or unsuccessful, a multi-agency involvement will determine the student’s individual education action plan and a referral to an alternative provision is likely and possible application for an Education, Health and Care Plan.
Hub Support
We have a range of short-term courses which some students will benefit from to support them in managing their learning and behaviour in mainstream lessons. The Hub Support offer will encompass up to 3 of the provisions from the Hub curriculum offer. This could include mentoring services, both 1:1 and small groups, Literacy support and Numeracy Support, social interaction groups and support to manage emotional or difficult situation.
Once students have completed Hub support, they will also benefit from Outreach work, which will be short term and a period of observation by a member of the hub team to ensure that students are benefiting from the learning on their Hub Support and applying these strategies in lessons. This will also be partnered with the Hub staff supporting teaching staff in using strategies in their lessons.
Curriculum offer
Students have an entitlement to a broad, balanced and relevant programme of study in line with the school’s curriculum and special educational needs policy. The curriculum planning for individual students attending the Hub Provision focuses on engaging teaching and learning.
The Hub New to English Curriculum
On entry to the Academy, if it has been identified that a pupil is new to the English Language, such that they would struggle to access instructions given in a mainstream classroom or around the school, the following model is implemented at KS3. This would be followed until a student has a level of English that allows them to safely understand instructions required to travel around the Academy, understand essential classroom commands and communicate at a level that they can access differentiated work in English. At KS4, as above, however, pupils will follow ESOL entry courses which enable pupils to read and write a variety of formal and informal texts. Pupils will also be able to get information from different texts and pictures. Pupils will practise writing in the present and past tense, use conjunctions and adjectives as well as improve punctuation and spelling. (see sample curriculum guides below)
EAL intervention at the Academy covers a variety of skills-based learning across various subjects. Pupils learn not only to improve their overall English language skills, but also how to extract information, identify key points and bond with other pupils who have a shared experience of being new to the UK; in some cases new to education.
As pupils’ progress in their English language acquisition, they graduate out of their provision. Currently we have tired provision; the aim is for all pupils to ‘graduate’ from EAL intervention programmes into mainstream lessons. Using the EAL code set as a functional guide, pupils who are A and B learners receive intervention in the form of withdrawal support.
EAL Code Sets used at Aylward Academy
EAL Induction Intervention Programme
Ruth Miskin Literacy – Phonics - Tiered
Curriculum Lead Induction - Tiered
Maths Intervention
ESOL – KS4
EAL Curriculum Led Induction Model Includes:
ESOL Programme
