Supporting Individual Students

By changing our structure in Years 7 and 8 and allowing teachers to stick with their classes for the full 2 years, yet still offering a wide and varied curriculum, we really are a unique department that not only stretches students but also allows teachers to get to know their pupils and understand their individual needs. We follow all of the major school approaches to support students with individual needs such as; checklists of work to complete, lots of visual guides and supports, as well as more specialised support such as aids for clamping and working with materials for students that need assistance when working with materials.

Our projects are very ambitious and have been carefully constructed to allow all students to succeed. However, the outcomes are all open ended which allows our more able students to really  push the boat out and be stretched in a host of different ways, whether that be in terms of manufacturing using advanced tools or machinery, or designing ambitious concepts and presenting them in innovative ways.