SEND Resource Base

Within the Resource Base we support young people with a range of moderate learning difficulties, including:

• Communication and interaction
• Cognition and learning
• Social, emotion and mental health difficulties
• Sensory and/or physical needs

Students are provided with a safe and stimulating environment in which mutual respect, friendliness and an understanding of individual needs supports young people to achieve.

Alongside specialist teaching, learners access a wide range of interventions tailored to individual areas of need.  Our overall aim is to provide children with an opportunity to:

• Develop maturity to be an independent citizen throughout life
• Develop strategies to pursue lifelong learning
• Develop self confidence
• Benefit from a safe and secure environment allowing children to meet their full potential.
• Access a broad and balanced curriculum

Students enter the base by means of referral from Lewisham LA, not from within the school.

All students in the unit have a diagnosis of SEND and EHCP/statement

• Students must be working considerably below the appropriate level for children of their age both academically and socially
• Students require support in the following areas of their development to fit in to the intervention plan: communication and interaction, cognition and learning, social and emotional and sensory and/or physical needs, with cognition and learning being their primary need
• Students should not require personal care and be able to dress/toilet independently
• Students should not have a history of challenging behaviour which requires regular physical intervention.

• Students must be working below NC Level 2c in Num/Lit
• Students should be functioning below the expected level socially and lack independence skills e.g. travel/budgeting/relationships

• Students must be working below NC Level 3c in Num/Lit
• Students should be functioning below the expected level socially and lack independence skills e.g. travel/budgeting/relationships
• It would be appropriate to sit Entry Level/Level 1 ‘gateway qualifications’ as opposed to traditional GCSEs for (example AQA ELC in Literacy and numeracy)