Students are provided with extensive levels of support in all aspects of their lives at Pine Green.

At Pine Green Academy, we afford students every opportunity to succeed.

We recognise that the students that come to Pine Green face barriers that directly impact on their education. We seek to breakdown these barriers which will increase educational outcomes and dramatically improve life chances.

Curriculum Based Personal Development

Our curriculum is designed in such way that confronts these difficulties head on. We address personal development in the following subjects. Please click links to find out more details about the subjects.

We also offer ‘Personal Development’ opportunities within all of our lessons. Click the link below to see how key areas are mapped into subjects!

Interventions – Personal Development

Students at Pine Green are provided with a range of interventions to help them develop as individuals. We take great care in evaluating students’ EHCPs and provide interventions that are required across the four areas of SEN.

  • Students are also provided with interventions that are identified by Education and Health Care Plans. At Pine Green we recognise that student need support not only with ‘Social, Emotional & Mental Health’ needs, but students will need support with ‘Communication & Interaction’, ‘Cognition & Learning’ difficulties and ‘Physical and Sensory’ difficulties.

  • At Pine Green Academy, students have entitlement to access 1:1 or small group interventions based on the difficulties they have. Interventions are scheduled throughout the year so that students continue to grow and develop throughout their time at school.

  • Our interventions and lessons are specially designed so that opportunity exists for students to receive bespoke support after the completion of interventions so that no learning gaps occur

Cognition & Learning  Communication & Interaction  Social, Emotional & Mental Health  Physical & Sensory 

 

 

 

 

Precision Literacy 

Talkabout 

Mentoring 

Cool Kids 

Precision Numeracy 

SULP 

Emotional Literacy 

 Motor Skill Development 

Catch-Up English 

Circle of Friends 

Emotional Intelligence 

 

Catch-Up Maths 

Girls Group 

Anger Management 

 

Dyslexia 

Social Skills 

Conflict Resolution 

 

Handwriting 

 

Self Esteem 

 

Reading 

 

Anxiety 

 

Phonics 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additionally we also provide students with regular access to interventions that support emotional and social development.

Students are provided with an ‘Emotion Coaching’ curriculum that allows students to develop skills of emotional intelligence and emotional regulation. This is accessed each day during tutor time, where students are asked to reflect on emotional experiences over the last 24 hours. Students are encouraged to recognise emotions associated with events and coaching is provided to identity emotions and develop appropriate respsonses.  

Opportunities - A Cultural Entitlement Programme

At Pine Green Academy we recognise that not all student have had the same life chances. Where these life chances are lacking, students may have a restricted understanding about how to access and participate in the world around them.

As such we seek to ensure that students have half-termly opportunities to experience the world around them.

We identify nine key themes:

  • Culture and Community
  • Nature & Adventure
  • Music & Performance
  • Arts & Crafts
  • History & Heritage
  • Words & Verse
  • Around me
  • Having Fun
  • Getting Ready

In each key area, we have identified experiences and opportunities that we wish students to have, divided in to Gold, Silver & Bronze opportunities.

For example within our ‘Nature & Adventure’ theme, students will engage in the following activities;

  • Bronze
    • Go on a walk to a new place
    • Visit a forest
    • Toast a marshmellow
  • Silver
    • Complete an acitvity on water
    • Make a shelter in a forest
  • Gold
    • Visit the seaside
    • Experience a campfire
    • Go camping

Across the nine different categories, we provide a comprehensive set of activities that students will engage in. We ensure we track these experiences to ensure that all students have access to activities to make them rounded individuals, who are tolerant, accepting and open to new experiences.

As with all aspects of life at Pine Green, student progress is celebrated. We aim to hold awards evenings each year to celebrate student progress in all aspects of the curriculum.

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