Acorn Inclusion Base

Welcome to Acorn Room

Acorn Room

Welcome to Acorn Inclusion Base!

Duke Street Primary School hosts a school-funded inclusion base for children with significant barriers and challenges to their learning. We cater for the needs of up to 20 children across two rooms – Acorn and Seedling room.

By following the same vision and core ‘ICARE’ values of the main school, our inclusion base aims to provide the highest quality education for every child in a safe and caring environment to support them in realising their full potential.

As an inclusive school, where appropriate, some of the children within the inclusion base also access mainstream inclusion on a personal level. This develops their confidence to join in and learn with their peers and provides excellent opportunities to access other areas of the curriculum.

Seedling Room

Seedling room has 10 allocated spaces and focuses on children with significant speech delays, sensory needs and social and emotional needs. The children within this inclusion base have an EHCP.

Seedling room have a personal, child-centred approach to learning in order to help them to develop and make progress within the ARC;

• Achievement
• Resilience
• Communication

Seedling Room use Equals © and Sensory Classroom © based approaches to the curriculum and support children with their ARC and also provide high quality education which is purposeful, sensory-based, supportive of need and developmentally appropriate.

Within the Seedling Curriculum we will focus on;

• My play and leisure
• My Communication
• My thinking and problem solving
• My physical well-being (PE and Games)
• My Outdoor School
• My Independence
• My Art
• The world about me

Acorn Room

Seedling room has 10 allocated spaces and focuses on children with significant learning needs, complex medical needs and social and emotional needs. The children within this inclusion base have an EHCP.

 

The desire is to equip and support the children with the skills and tools needed to make progress with carefully planned for tasks and a timetable which is incorporating sessions to support needs such as Speech and Language, fine motor skills, sensory circuits, sensory breaks, social skills support and basic number and literacy skills to help the child to make progress and succeed.

The key areas of need incorporated within the inclusion base will be Sensory impairments, ASD, Social and Emotional Needs, Speech and Language difficulties and Developmental Delay. The desired outcome for this provision would be to help develop the whole child and make progress against personal targets and the overarching goal will be to have supported the child to reduce barriers to learning and, for some learners, be able to access the curriculum within a mainstream inclusive classroom with appropriate inclusive resources, support and interventions. 

The children in Acorn room will use the National Curriculum and PIVATS documents (where necessary) to help with exposing to a broad and balanced curriculum and some learners within this room, where appropriate, accessing learning amongst their peers in mainstream inclusive classrooms.