Welcome to The Pines AT REDGATE

In The Pines:

We LEARN

We COLLABORATE

We NURTURE

We GROW

We are SAFE

We were delighted in September 2019 to open The Pines SEN unit for children with significant developmental delay, as well as sensory and physical Complex Needs.  The Pines is a wonderful addition to our Redgate family, and in such a short time it has already enriched the lives of everyone within our school and wider community. 

 The Pines currently consists of four classrooms which cater for a wide range of children from Reception to Year 6. Our classes are called ; Dragonflies, Natterjacks, Woodpeckers and Foxes. 

Within The Pines each classroom has its own dedicated outdoor classroom of which the children have free access throughout the day where skilled staff take the learning to the children within the outdoors.

We also have quiet areas outside the classrooms as well a kitchen and snack area which children can access with staff throughout the day. We have a fully equipped disabled bathroom with a wet room, shower and changing bed solely for our pupils within The Pines. We are also very excited to have recently opened our very own bespoke sensory regulation space - The Burrow. This wonderful new resource ensures that the children have a safe and exciting space where they are able to regulate themselves alongside our skilled staff.

Within our base we currently have 3 teaching staff, 12 teaching assistants and 10 1:1 support assistants who are all supported by our Pines Assistant Head Louise Dean, EYFS Lead Marti Fallon and SENDCo Beth Kiernan. 

Staff, children and families within the Pines are also supported by many outside professionals such as speech and language, Occupational therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists. This ensures that staff are kept up to date with new therapies and interventions which benefit our children and their families.

For many children and young people, changing schools or entering school for the first time can be worrying, and for others it is a time of excitement and apprehension. At this time, it is the Pines overarching aim to ensure that processes are as seamless as possible so as to ensure that the pupil settles in, adapts effectively to our environment and that families feel supported in the knowledge that the most appropriate placement has been secured for their child in order to meet their developmental and complex needs.

It is very much the aim that the children will experience a truly inclusive and developmentally appropriate learning environment.  Therefore, the children attending The Pines will join their friends within our mainstream provision, whenever possible, for school activities, ensuring that they are very much a part of the Redgate School community.

Times of our school day in the pines

All of our Pines classes begin the day at 9am and end at 3pm, where children can be dropped off and collected through our accessible gate which is situated at the side of the school.

Each class has an allocated lunch time which is as follows:

Dragonflies - 11.30 -12.15

Natterjacks - 11.30 -12.15

Woodpeckers - 12.15 -1pm

Foxes - 11.30 - 12.30

Collaboration with our whole school community

Ensuring that our children within The Pines are fully and seamlessly included within our mainstream provision, and vice versa is hugely important to us as a school community. 

Collaboration is key to ensuring that this happens naturally and purposefully throughout school, and so staff across school work together to ensure that children are able to access mainstream provision that is appropriate and beneficial for each individual child.

There are many ways in which this is done. For leisure and social purposes all of the children across mainstream and Pines share the same lunch hall and playground. This provides the children with the opportunities to get to know each other in a playful, fun and relaxed environment, with the support of sensitive interactions from adults if needed.

Children also enjoy taking part in lessons together - The children especially love working alongside each other within music lessons and practical science experiments. Our early years teams across Pines and Squirrels love to explore each others play rich environments, and Woodpeckers and Foxes especially enjoy baking alongside our Little Squirrels in their kitchen.

Cultural capital and enrichment experiences are also shared across our school - three of our children across The Pines have recently been elected to be on our school council. This will provide the children with a voice to make changes and improvements across our school which are important to them.

Enrichment experiences across school have included whole school well being days where we have all done yoga as a whole school and the team from cbeebies have performed the rhyming rockets show to us all. We have also enjoyed whole school visits to exciting places like the pantomime and Chester Zoo.

All of these purposeful collaborations ensure that our school continues to nurture and grow our whole school ethos of inclusion.

The Pines Curriculum Rationale

The Pines Pre-Formal/Informal Pathway

The Pines Formal Pathway

WHOLE SCHOOL RULES FOR BEHAVIOUR

Please contact us if you would like further information

Phone: 01704 828140

Email: thepines@redgateprimary.com