Description
Kestrel House School is Independent Secondary school in Selective for kids aged 5 to 16 (Gender - 5 to 16 )
The calm, friendly & happy atmosphere of Kestrel House School is maintained through a holistic and therapeutic approach to each one of it pupils, via a knowledgeable team of specialists & experts in autism and associated conditions. Each child’s personal development is enhanced through a meaningful, appropriate and individual approach to their specific needs, and with the support of an on-site team of multidisciplinary therapists who support the pupils daily. The school is well resourced and has a dedicated team of patient, kind and understanding staff to help pupils, using established techniques and innovative activities. Pupils enjoy a wide range of interesting trips and fun activities in the wider community and their progress is transferred back into the classroom to ensure appropriate education targets are reached and celebrated. Kestrel House School maintains close support with each pupil’s wider family network to ensure that the impact of each child’s progress at school – in social skills, communication and education – can be replicated and enjoyed at home.
Facilities
Curriculum
The Curriculum Implementation will stem from shared thinking with the Wellbeing Team and class community collaboration combined with each learners EHCP defines the beginning of the process. The process is a reflective and challenges our leadership and management, the quality of teaching and learning, dialogues across the phases and most importantly the entitlement of every child. All learners will follow the same curriculum theme to create a whole school learning identity, however the personalized learning maps shape what the learning will look like for each child.Their personalised targets ensure every child is working towards achieving the outcomes in their personalised Education Health and Care Plan. Their targets are developed through a curriculum that reflects the learner’s age, developmental readiness and individual needs. Whatever their uniqueness we want to nurture their personalities, support them in developing positive relationships, deliver quality education in engaging and stimulating environments and plan rigorously for their learning and development.It ensures that at all points, the learning will always dovetail from the EHCP outcomes and learning targets. It will also mean that as a school, they can begin to quality assure the additional Wellbeing Therapy and family resource input, to identify, moderate and evaluate what the learning should look like and how progress and achievement can be maximized. The Wellbeing Team support is inclusive of Speech and Language, Occupational and Music therapy and now Thrive practice. As a team they collaborate with class community leads to create personalized learning targets and next steps at the start of each term. As a community they begin to connect their input to class-based learning through shared medium term curriculum planning.
Features
Things to note
KESTREL FAMILY NEST
The Kestrel House School Family Liaison, Sharon Manikham, has been working on engaging with families and doing joined up work with the families and school. They have completed home visits with individual families and liaised with their local councils and social workers in order to get the families the support that they need. They have been working with the Speech and Language Therapist and they held a Kestrel Family Nest PECs event where families learnt how to use the communication system that the children use at Kestrel House School. They sent PECs visuals home for each family to enable communication with their child.
FUN ZONE
The Occupational Therapist Lucy has created a video library of movement breaks, calming routines, and video modeling sessions to practice self-care and domestic tasks so the children can build on their independence skills.These can be used at home so that the children can continue to practice and develop their skills and experience the ‘just right’ level of arousal for learning and play!After something exciting has happened or when they might be feeling a bit upset, cross or just overloaded by the environment around them- calming activities such as relaxing to slow and steady music, stretching the body, breathing and giving yourself deep pressure can be really helpful. This is so that over time, we become more independent in being able to regulate our bodies and have more calming ‘tools’ in the ‘tool kit’ for those tricky moments. You can follow these activities with your child and if you like, give them squeezes as well as them trying to squeeze themselves (use the palm of your hand rather than the fingertips to press in slowly on body parts such as the head, arms and shoulders).
Extra Curricular
Please check the school website link for details.
1.27 miles
