Curriculum

What is Our Approach to Teaching and Learning?

Engaging students is our highest priority. Engaged learning is the process in which students actively participate in their learning. We want all of our students to find excitement and pleasure in learning and to be able to transfer knowledge in order to solve problems creatively, flexibly and socially.

We achieve this with our students in a number of ways:

• by looking at the skills needed for a particular task or activity and supporting the development of physical and learning skills needed to participate
• by looking at communication from both the student and adult perspective and by giving the task a communicative goal
• by looking at the environment - both the student's sensory needs and the creation of a safe place in which to learn
• by making the task meaningful with clear expectations and a clear role for each participant
• by increasing the student's involvement in the task
• by increasing the level of reinforcement within an activity

Our Integrated Curriculum

The Eagle House curriculum is a curriculum in the broadest sense comprising specialist areas related to autism and the requirements of the National Curriculum. Accepting that every child has a different learning style, we offer a flexible curriculum which is learning focused rather than content focused (DCSF Personalised Learning Agenda), using the curriculum to support the development of a set of skills rather than as an end in itself.