The curriculum at Bensham Manor School takes account of the different abilities and experiences of our students and provides an education appropriate to their individual needs.
Thorough our curriculum we aim to:
• Provide stimulating activities and tasks.
• Set challenging, achievable targets for individual students.
• Develop effective social and communication skills.
• Incorporate English, ICT & Mathematics into all lessons and activities.
• Encourage the tolerance of opinions and beliefs and reflect the multicultural and multi-faith nature of society.
• Develop self-confidence and skills towards independent living.
• Encourage a caring, respectful attitude towards each other within the community.
• Ensure continuity and progression.
• We offer a broad and balanced range of learning opportunities that includes and exceeds the National Curriculum. There is an exciting breadth of accredited courses.
• Students are taught in within year groups for most sessions and a 25 lesson per week timetable is followed.
• Grouping arrangements are organised flexibly with opportunities for class based and subject based settings to maximize learning opportunities for all.
• As students move into Key Stage 4 at the end of year 9, they follow a more personalised curriculum that may be academic or vocationally based and includes access to independent travel training, work experience and college link courses.
• All students follow accredited courses such as AQA, ASCAN, GCSE and Entry Pathways throughout Key Stage 4 and leave Bensham Manor School with a range of qualifications.
• At least one teaching assistant supports each class and additional staff are allocated according to need.
• Additional teaching assistants are used flexibly with a long-term goal of developing independent learning skills.
• Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Drama Therapy, Lego, Theraplay, Drawing and Talking Therapy and Social and Communication groups are timetabled as appropriate.