Enhanced & Specialist Provisions
At Baysgarth School we understand that every student is unique. They bring different experiences, come from different contexts, and have different strengths and interests. Seeing every student as a unique person of value, means that we also know that sometimes students need different support.
We want our school to be a place every student is proud to belong to, but we know that for some students the challenges of mainstream school may be a barrier that is difficult to overcome. This is why the school has invested significantly in creating different provisions to cater for our students; ensuring they get the right support at the right time, making sure they feel valued and understood.
These provisions emerge from identifying a specific need within our student population and our offer has rapidly grown as the school’s reputation locally and regionally for inclusion has grown.
Every provision we design within our school, has the same objectives:
- To ensure that every student feels understood and valued within our school community.
- To ensure students and their families understand their barriers to learning and how they are best supported.
- To ensure every student successfully manages to participate fully within the school community.
- To ensure students are able to transition back into mainstream or specialist provision as required, and can be successful in this transition.
However, the provisions are also all very different, due to catering for different students and needs.
Headway
Headway is the leading school based Alternative Provision in the Local Authority and works with schools and the Local Authority within North Lincolnshire and beyond.
Headway supports KS3 and KS4 students who have been permanently excluded or who are at significant risk of this happening. The provision provides a therapeutic environment in which students undertake a range of assessments to help identify their specific needs, which can then be matched to the right support. Providing this environment, alongside a strong academic offer, ensures that students are well prepared to return to mainstream successfully.
Headway hosts students from Baysgarth as well as students from other schools and Local Authorities.
Pathways
Pathways is short term alternative provision for Y6 to Y8 students who, for a variety of reasons, may find transition to secondary school and the different environment challenging. The principle aim of the provision is to provide a detailed assessment on what a student needs to thrive.
The provision is designed around the best practice in primary schools whilst ensuring a strong academic curriculum with a strong focus on developing social and emotional skills. Students are based in one space, strengthening their feeling of safety.
Pathways hosts students from Baysgarth as well as students from other schools and Local Authorities.
Elevate
Elevate is a provision for KS4 Baysgarth students, who are at significant risk of disengagement and permanent exclusion. These students, for a variety of reasons, would not be suitable for Headway, as they need social connections with the mainstream setting and their academic progress.
Elevate follows a mainstream curriculum, taught by specialist staff, who deliver learning in the Elevate base classroom. In addition, they have their own dedicated Inclusion and Engagement Officer, who supports their pastoral needs, and builds strong relationships with families.
Discover
This a provision for students in Y7 and 8 who have been identified, usually whilst at their primary school, as having significant social and emotional barriers to being secondary ready. These students require additional support to adapt to mainstream secondary school life and the environment, through a nurturing approach.
The students in Discover experience a hybrid curriculum, with just under half their timetable consisting of mainstream classes with their peers.
This provision is accessed by students on Baysgarth’s roll.
The Attendance Hub
There has been a growing trend nationally of students finding attending school difficult and we have seen this at Baysgarth also. The barriers to attending school are often complex and require a collaborative approach between school and home.
The Attendance Hub is a provision designed to support students who have significant barriers to school attendance to gradually re-engage in a bespoke, personalised way. The provision allows for some self study and social skills development as well as taught sessions from specialist staff to ensure transition into mainstream can be successfully achieved at the appropriate point.
This provision is accessed by students on Baysgarth’s roll.
