The faculty strongly believes in the College ethos, “Every child should achieve their very best and feel secure,” regardless of their individual needs.
The Learning and Life Skills Faculty is dedicated to improving the literacy and numeracy of targeted students, SA, SA+ and Statemented, providing nurture as appropriate and to share information on students with needs to all staff, especially strategies and targets to include in mainstream lessons wherever possible.
The faculty provides in class support and access to specialist withdrawal programmes:-
• Acceleread Accelerwrite
• RML
• Toe by Toe
• Support to vulnerable students in the Nurture Base
The faculty provides literacy study support on Wednesday after school. We also run a workshop for parents providing practical ideas to help support your child’s literacy and numeracy at home.
The faculty liaises closely with LA, Psychology Service and Special Needs Teaching Service who provide additional expert advice.
Faculty Staff
| Ms L Halliwell | Senior Vice Principal |
| Mr S McKinley | Assistant Principal & SENCO |
| Mrs G Crewe | SEN Officer |
| Mrs J Phillips | KS3 Base Manager and Teacher of Literacy |
| Miss M Geary | Teacher of Numeracy |
| C. Ruane | Literacy & Nurture Teaching Assistant |
| P. Stevenson | Child Centred and Literacy Teaching Assistant |
| A. Smith | Child Centred Teaching Assistant |
| L. Conn | Child Centred Teaching Assistant |
| J. McMurray | Child Centred Teaching Assistant |
| E. Aherne | Child Centred Teaching Assistant |
| D. Shaw | CC TA, Induction and COGS |
