Our curriculum
Social and Emotional Curriculum
Social and Emotional development is the priority area of the curriculum at The Key Intervention. This area of our curriculum is highly personalised to each individual pupil. The teachers spend time to get to know the pupil and family, to understand the needs in this area and the root cause of those needs. A bespoke plan with individual outcomes is put in place, to deliver the most effective teaching to ensure social and emotional progress. The delivery of this will look different for individual pupils, some may access this within their small class environment as part of the daily timetabled sessions, others may receive additional teaching in small groups and some will access 1:1 interventions. At The Key, the daily timetable allows for maximum opportunity for social and emotional learning. Activities throughout the day include; morning meet and greet, breakfast time, assembly, social time, dinner time, PSHE, outdoor learning, therapeutic play and reflection time. Some pupils will access the support of professionals such as play therapists, therapeutic counsellors and clinical & educational psychologists to support their development.
The National Curriculum
In addition to the social and emotional curriculum, pupils at The Key intervention access the National Curriculum at a stage that matches their ability. As an intervention, our curriculum delivery aims to plug gaps in pupils’ knowledge and understanding within the core curriculum areas. Many of our pupils have missed time in education or have had difficulty accessing the teaching within school, which prevents them from moving forward with their learning. Teachers use initial assessments to plan for the half term ahead, ensuring that the pupils’ individual gaps are targeted. Each half term a curriculum map is created for each class, which shares the curriculum areas that will be focused on for the weeks ahead. Lesson delivery and expectation is then differentiated for individual pupils. This curriculum map is shared with pupils, parents/carers and schools. We use a weekly report that is sent to schools to inform the pupil’s home school teacher of the learning objectives covered that week.
Learning experiences
We believe that engaging, practical and out of the classroom experiences play an important part in the planning of our curriculum. Pupils engage more successfully in learning when it is meaningful or when they have been able to experience it first-hand. We take the pupils on many educational visits to enhance the learning that takes place in the classroom.
Over the last academic year, groups of pupils have visited places such as; The Zoo, Tamworth Castle, Art Gallery, Albany theatre, Snow Dome, Hatton Country World, Pizza Express, Cadbury world, Alpaca Farm, St James Church, Go Ape and A Victorian school.
We also use the local area of Coventry as our extended classroom, with groups of pupils visiting Coombe Abbey and other outdoor areas weekly. Outdoor learning is a very popular and valuable part of our curriculum offer
Each KS2 pupil will access swimming each week while attending the Key Intervention as part of their PE curriculum. Swimming takes place at the Alan Higgs Centre, and pupils attend in groups for a 30 minute lesson delivered by a swimming instructor.