As a specialist SEND secondary school, our primary responsibility is to provide a curriculum that is meaningful, accessible, and ambitious for all our learners. While we do not follow the National Curriculum in its entirety, we rigorously adhere to all statutory guidelines and requirements, ensuring that our provision remains compliant with national expectations for safeguarding, assessment, and entitlement. 

The diverse and complex needs of our students – including those with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other significant barriers to learning – mean that a standard, one-size-fits-all curriculum would not enable them to achieve their full potential. Instead, our curriculum is carefully designed and regularly reviewed to: 

• Prioritise Individual Needs: we adapt content, teaching methods, and assessment approaches to suit each student’s learning profile, EHCP outcomes, and personal aspirations. 

• Promote Functional and Life Skills: our curriculum places a strong emphasis on communication, independence, social interaction, and preparation for adulthood, ensuring students develop the skills they need for life beyond school. 

• Ensure Engagement and Progress: by tailoring learning experiences, we foster engagement, motivation, and measurable progress for every student, regardless of their starting point. 

• Reflect Statutory Guidance: we incorporate all statutory elements relevant to SEND settings, including the Preparation for Adulthood outcomes, and ensure that all students have access to a broad and balanced curriculum. 

This bespoke approach enables us to provide a curriculum that is ambitious, relevant, and responsive to the unique strengths and needs of our students, supporting them to achieve the best possible outcomes. 

Vision and Values & Curriculum Intent statement for Stocklake Park School.

Our Vision:   Inspire – Enable – Achieve

We value	Intention: We aim to:	Implementation: Staff will:
Courage & Resilience	Engender a positive “can do” attitude whereby students will have the confidence to try new things, to persevere and not give up.	Demonstrate trial and error, modelling trying their best until they achieve a result.
Friendship	Provide students with the tools to develop meaningful social communication and interaction skills.	Model taking pleasure in friendly exchanges, being caring and having fun.
Kindness	Encourage the whole school community to show kindness to others through being polite, friendly and welcoming.	Provide positive role-models through modelling kindness to the school community.
Trust	Ensure that students feel safe, secure and happy through nurturing trusting relationships and understand who they can trust in the wider community.	Always act honestly, be reliable and trustworthy.
Respect	Develop tolerance and appreciation for individual differences, treating themselves and others with consideration and care.	Demonstrate respect to other through their behaviour and will highlight and celebrate our differences.
Equity	Provide a school experience where fairness is promoted and support is given to all to achieve their individual goals.	Ensure that the diversity of students needs are carefully considered and matched to suitable approaches.
Determination	To empower students to overcome personal and academic challenges, build resilience and achieve their individual and personal goals.	Model determination, showing students how to keep trying even when things are tough.
Excellence	Inspire our students to try their best and we will recognise and celebrates achievement to develop a sense of pride.	Provide training opportunities for the whole school community and will engage in continual professional development. We will regularly reflect on Teaching & Learning to ensure we offer the best opportunities to our students.
Wellbeing	Give students the tools to understand how they feel and the strategies to feel at their best.	Model that we can change how we feel through our actions in order to feel good.

Curriculum Intent:

Our intent is to:

• Provide an inclusive school environment where students feel happy and safe and are inspired to fully engage in their learning.
• Provide a multi-disciplined professional approach to support students to find ways to overcome barriers and enable them to reach their full potential.
• Ensure our functional curriculum is designed to develop emotional understanding and resilience, build independence skills, grow self-esteem and build the skills needed for life beyond school.
• Strive for students to be brave in taking risks and to feel proud of their achieve
• Ensure that the core values which form the foundation of our vision are revisited in everything we do from planning the classroom environment to delivering learning activities.

Our curriculum incorporates the areas of SEND which appear in every individual student’s EHCP. The table shows how each of areas of our curriculum interlink with the areas of SEND as found in the EHCPs (please note subject areas can link to more than one area of the curriculum).

SEND area	Key Stage 3 & 4	Key stage 5
Cognition & Learning	Maths Computing Phonics	Maths Computing Phonics
Social, Emotional & Mental Health	PSHE and RSE Creativity	PSHE and RSE Creativity and Enrichment
Communication & Interaction	Communication, Language and Literacy	Communication, Language and Literacy
Independence & Community	Life Skills Science, Geography, Religious Education and History Vocational skills	Life Skills Vocational – Employability Skills Community
Sensory & Physical	PE	Sports and leisure

Curriculum Implementation:

To implement our intent, we have:

• A curriculum which is broad and balanced, and which builds on the knowledge, understanding and skills of all pupils, from very individual starting points
• An curriculum that uses a combination of ‘in the moment’ planning, topic themes and enrichment opportunities for example, focus weeks or educational visits.
• Meaningful learning experiences, developing each pupil’s characteristics of learning
• High quality interactions with adults that demonstrate and impact on the progress of all pupils
• Careful assessment opportunities through observations, which are recorded on TPPs and Evidence for Learning and shared with parents. These are used to inform the next steps of learning and meet individual needs.
• Developed an effective and engaging environment that is set up so that pupils can access all areas of learning both inside and outside.
• Ensured that staff are equipped with the appropriate training to deliver our curriculum
• A curriculum that meets the needs of all pupils

 

Curriculum Impact:

Through implementation, we expect to see:

• Staff breaking down barriers to learning so that all students can access learning with the view to leave Stocklake Park with a set of skills that they will be able to apply to life beyond school.
• Students make progress through very small steps
• Evidence of student’s achievements recorded and celebrated
• Class staff to make formative assessments which inform in the moment or future planning and ensure that all pupils build on their current knowledge and skills at a good pace

For further information please contact:

Salma Jabar (Assistant Head) – 01296 423 507

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At Stocklake Park School we aim to provide a safe, healthy, and stimulating environment in which children may develop with confidence. Please look at our Safeguarding, Policies, and Governance documents below to find out more.