REACH
Community learning with purpose
REACH is our compassionate, bespoke school and Sixth Form College provision for students who have additional support needs or barriers in accessing in face-to-face group learning in a school or college environment.
Students, parents, and carers can be assured that they will receive:
- A person-centred blended education and wellbeing offer
- Diversified timetable, relevant to each individual student
- A multi-disciplinary team of compassionate and highly skilled professionals.
- High quality teaching and pastoral and wellbeing support.
- Qualified and highly experienced teachers, HLTAs, TAs and learning mentors.
- Specialist therapists, psychologists, and counsellors
Our REACH programme
- A named a youth champion – supporting emotional wellbeing.
- In-lesson, video conferencing learning and opportunities to meet and interact with peers.
- Time limited 1-2-1 tutoring via zoom and/or home visits may be agreed where there are initial barriers to engagement in group learning.
Where students have additional needs, REACH can offer purposeful home and community-based education and wellbeing support.
Our approach
Initially working with students in their homes, we build confidence and trust, supporting them to take small, supported steps to engage and interact with the outside world.
Using supportive approaches such as motivational interviewing, students progress from their home to exploring their local neighbourhood.
We harness the health benefits of nature through interventions such as wilderness therapy, therapeutic walks and time with therapy dogs.
Places of interest are explored to encourage personal development and to establish new hobbies and career paths.
Students can visit our school/college sites (at quiet time) to overcome concerns they may have about working towards attending school/college with their peers.
Initially working with students in their homes, we build confidence and trust, supporting them to take small, supported steps to engage and interact with the outside world.
Using supportive approaches such as motivational interviewing, students progress from their home to exploring their local neighbourhood.
We harness the health benefits of nature through interventions such as wilderness therapy, therapeutic walks and time with a therapy dogs.
Places of interest are explored to encourage personal development and to establish new hobbies and career paths.
Students can visit our school/college sites (at quiet time) to overcome concerns they may have about working towards attending school/college with their peers.
Many of our students have needs relating to their physical health or appearance. Others are experiencing mental health difficulties such as social anxiety, depression, or PTSD. We take the time to understand what is going on for each person, complete comprehensive holistic assessments, and create bespoke plans.
We work collaboratively with students, parents/carers and specialist health services and organisations (dentists, early intervention, CAMHS, Healthy Young Minds, psychosis teams etc.) to meet students’ health needs and promote their education and wellbeing.
Through compassion, perseverance, skill, and working with students, their families, health services and support agencies, REACH, has achieved some magnificent results and positive destinations:
- Reintegration into mainstream school/college,
- Gaining places in mainstream colleges
- Securing university places
- Securing passes in GCSE subjects and vocational qualifications
- Increased confidence and ability to live fulfilling, independent lives.