Newbury Manor School is Independent Secondary school in Not applicable for kids aged 6 to 19 (Gender - 6 to 19 )
Newbury Manor School can support up to 45 young people aged 6 to 19 years who have an autistic spectrum diagnosis and have complex needs. In addition we can provide on-site residential care for up to eight students.The school is located in a beautiful, rural location in Somerset. Formerly a Georgian manor house, Newbury Manor School has a range of outbuildings and extensive grounds, and has recently been refurbished to a very high standard.The school is easily accessible to those within a large geographical area, being only five miles from Frome and eight miles from Bath. We are just 80 minutes by train from London Paddington.
Pre-formal Curriculum
The Pre-formal Curriculum is for pupils who have profound and complex needs. The curriculum is designed to meet the needs of pupils through a personalised approach, valuing the process as much as the achievement and offering flexibility to be responsive to the needs of the individual learner.It focuses on the early communication, social, emotional and cognitive skills that are the foundation of learning. It is a curriculum that recognises the importance of play in a child’s development and the need for sensory and multi-sensory approaches to learning. It acknowledges what learners can do by supporting and developing their strengths and abilities and it is designed to be delivered in an integrated way, incorporating learning, therapy and health needs.
Semi-formal Curriculum
The Semi-formal curriculum is delivered through a thematic based approach. It recognises that many of our pupils have a range of complex needs as well as learning difficulties. We meet each pupil’s needs through a personalised approach delivered through a bespoke curriculum.For some pupils a social communication, emotional regulation and transactional support focus provides pupils with the skills and tools to be able to manage their own feelings, anxieties and behaviour, as well as understand and utilise effective and appropriate methods of communication. This equips our learners with the ability to meaningfully interact with, and convey needs to, familiar people; as well as those who help to support us in the wider community.The curriculum is designed to be fun, engaging, practical and meaningful and match to pupils learning and developmental needs. It aims to promote life skills, independence, communication and sensory integration activities to prepare pupil for learning. Regardless of physical, emotional and learning challenges, teaching through the Semi-formal curriculum captures the interest and imagination of our pupils.
Formal Curriculum
The formal curriculum consists of adapted National Curriculum subjects, along with life skills, Learning outside the classroom, and creative subjects. The Formal curriculum is for those pupils who may have a range of needs, but who are cognitively able to access many aspects of a more formal curriculum framework, modified in line with pupil’s developmental level and additional needs. Pupils experience the formal curriculum in both a discrete and theme-based approach that aims to develop thinking and independent learning skills enabling us to build learning capacity and lifelong skills. At Newbury Manor we have adapted subjects and topics to reflect the needs of our pupils, whilst ensuring they provide challenge and progress.
Activities and facilities
Here at Newbury Manor School, we believe that extra-curricular activities can enhance learning, reduce anxiety and boost self-esteem for our young people. Time and time again, we have found that introducing a student to the right activity, when combined with the right support, helps them to re-engage when they are struggling to access other areas of the curriculum. Often, it also leads them to continue to develop the hobby in their own time, helping them to build positive links in their community.
Listening to students
The activities they offer at Newbury Manor School are largely determined by the students themselves. They have a well-established school council, which holds weekly meetings and feeds back students’ views and ideas, as well as regular house meetings where pupils can contribute ideas for activities.
Please check the school website link for details.
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