Enhancing the learning experience

We provide lots of opportunities for students to engage in learning activities and enrichment programmes. This helps them to find their passions and identify the skills they enjoy developing the most. 

What learning activities do we offer?   

Some aspects of our formal curriculum enable students to learn outside the classroom so that they can enhance their knowledge and gain new skills in different environments. These topics include things like swimming lessons, animal care, music production and plastering.

Friday afternoons include scheduled enrichment time, where students can participate in activities that don’t fall within the standard curriculum. They can take part in things like craft making, or more physical pursuits like climbing and trampolining. We also offer a range of options during lunchtimes including sports, art and mindfulness activities, and quiet reading time.

Additionally, we organise local educational trips to places like the West Midlands Safari Park, Goodheart Animal Sanctuary, National Trust houses and gardens and Ludlow Castle.

What enrichment programmes do we offer?   

We enrich our students' experiences through gardening, forest school, outdoor adventurous activities, play-based approaches to learning, employability, enterprise, volunteering, and work experience, and we're constantly expanding these options.  

For those students in residential care with either Esland or other companies, we have developed an additional set of curriculums called 'Learning Through Our Care'. The Learning Through Our Care curriculum harnesses the power of the relationships, routines, and secure attachments within home settings to ensure a positive outcome and successful transition into education.  

The Learning Through Our Care subject areas include physical learning, preparation for adulthood, educational visits and community engagement opportunities. Tutors may set learning challenges to do at home based on a student's hobbies, interests, and talents. Or it could be based on a broader curriculum area like history or geography.  

Our education and care teams work together in a therapeutically informed way to plan and provide opportunities that enhance a student's educational experience. 

Everything we do links closely with the targets in a student's PEPs (Personal Education Plan) and, if applicable, their EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan) and will embed knowledge and skills from the core curriculum.