Specialist Resource Base (SRB)

What could be an identified Learning Need?

Every teacher knows that some children, despite numerous interventions, group support and highly differentiated work, struggle to make the required progress. Their needs, however, are not severe enough to be able to access a Complex Needs setting. The school identifies that they need higher level intervention, which cannot be offered in class. The needs may be repeated concrete tasks, pre-learning, over-learning, repetition, a bespoke curriculum to address their required style of learning, maybe precision teaching, and a chance to thrive in a small group situation where they feel their needs are not so obvious to their peers.

What we can offer

• Almost one to one teaching, or small groups on a daily basis.
• A curriculum based on teaching through a core story for English, where we highly differentiate work and approaches, to meet the child’s needs. This could be as basic as phonics work, but always aiming to be engaging, motivating and bespoke.
• We teach maths based on the attainment of number skills underpinning transition to using and applying where appropriate, through questioning and concrete manipulation.
• We access other areas of the curriculum to support the child’s learning needs, focusing on confidence and esteem building as the ultimate bridge to increasing attainment.
• Links with our Special School partner Parkside, an Educational Psychologist, and The Dyslexia Outreach Service.