Support Centre
Welcome to the Support Centre
Mayflower Support Centre, part of Mayflower Community Academy and Nursery, was opened as a purpose built centre in 2009.
The centre has space for 12 pupils from Year 1 – Year 6. Pupils gain entry into the Support Centre through the Primary Placement Panel which is led by the local authority.
The Support Centre follows the same principals as the Academy and has an embedded culture of high expectations and collective responsibility to achieve excellence for all pupils. Our curriculum combines academic, social and physical targets and audits the academic needs, talents and interests of the pupils as a whole, whilst also personalising activities to meet their complex needs. Pupils are provided with equality of opportunity through bespoke and challenging teaching by all staff members.
All pupils within the Support Centre have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which highlights their strengths and needs as identified by parents, teaching staff and outside agencies.
The Support Centre provision is designed to create opportunities for pupils to take risks, make mistakes and communicate their feelings in a clear and confident way.
They are taught how to listen to each other’s point of view and encouraged to share their own thoughts and opinions.
Mrs Peters | SENDCo
This year I am looking forward to...
Teaching the children strategies to help them self-regulate enabling them to fully access their learning experiences.
My top tip for learning is...
Believe that you can but ask for help if you think you can't and accept support when you need it.
Mrs Whittingham
This year I am looking forward to...
Immersing the children into a curriculum that inspired their curiosity to learn about the world around them.
My top tip for learning is...
It is good to make mistakes. They provide learning opportunities and deepen understanding.
Useful things that will help you learn more this year
Class Texts | Reading Book list can be found here.
Support Centre Rationale
Together we can …
Our curriculum has been primarily based on the National Curriculum and the curriculum implemented by the Learning Academy Trust as well as following the guidelines set out by the Autism Education Trust. Our curriculum addresses the wide needs and abilities of each individual pupil. It ensures that each child can experience success as well as incorporate specialist areas such as sensory diet and life skills to best meet the academic, social and emotional needs of each child. They have opportunity to experience a full broad curriculum to the highest standard. It supports them in leading a full and independent life.
Formative and Summative assessments will inform the starting point of each child in every subject. The curriculum is adapted to suit the pupils and therefore, there may be a variety of different learning activities and outcomes within each lesson.
Adults within the Support Centre strive to get to know the pupils and their family enabling bespoke and personalised activities. For example, each pupil has a personalised Positive Learning Behaviour Chart, an individual sensory diet and personalised targets.
All our pupils learn and achieve in different ways and planning will be adapted to suit this. This may include:
- First and next cards
- Visual timetables
- Visual information and prompts
- Chunking longer tasks
- Widgets
- Sentence stems
- Picture/ word prompts
- Knowledge Organisers
- Partially completed examples
- Modelled examples/images / concept maps
- Recording devices to communicate written work.
Find out more about the Support Centre here.
Things about us that are worth remembering
PE is on a Tuesday. Pupils can wear their PE kit to school.
We encourage pupils to read every night and explore the 4 APPs.
Promoting Positive Learning Behaviour and Self Esteem
Add year group videos here...
Child Protection and Safeguarding
How are you feeling?
Good | Okay | Bad | Anxious | Depressed | Overwhelmed
Pupils - you can get help here.
Online Safety
Learn more here
Everyone a Mayflower Reader | Hear Me Become A Reader
There is nothing quite like playing back something that you have rehearsed or performed and just... listening: feeling pride in your successes; noticing the areas for improvement and acting on them. This is what real learning is all about!
'Hear Me Become A Reader' is our way of enabling pupils to journal their reading journey; giving pupils ownership over their development within the subject. With more and more pupils uploading audio readings on a weekly basis, we wanted to make this process more interactive and even easier than ever.
With this in mind, 'Hear Me Become A Reader' has changed platforms - no more weekly assignments or uploading of separate audio files. With Microsoft OneNote, pupils now record and upload on the platform itself, to a confidential section in the 'class notebook' - just between the child and their teacher. What's more, pupils (and parents) can comment under each recording, as well as adding to a 'collaboration space' where pupils can recommend new books to their classmates. There is also a 'content library' containing key reading resources to help equip your child with the tools they may need to become more fluent and comprehensive readers.
The same expectations of a weekly recorded reading will be required as part of your child's home learning diet; but within the class notebook, pupils could easily upload a recording every night of the week if they wanted to (as has been requested by pupils and parents).
If using a laptop or PC, pupils can still access their class notebook via their TEAMS account, or if using a tablet or mobile phone, you can download the Microsoft OneNote APP from your APP store and sign in using your child's MS TEAMS login details (please note it can sometimes take up to 24 hours to sync notebooks).
Have a go and explore the class notebook - the more your child uses it, the more confident they will become at leading their own learning. We can't wait to see how pupils use this new tool to enhance their learning at Mayflower!
Please see the links below, which provide step-by-step instructions in 'logging in' and 'recording your reading'.
Together we can...
HOW 2 ... log into class notebook on MS One Note (laptop/PC)
HOW 2 ... record my voice on MS OneNote while reading (laptop/PC)
HOW 2 ... log into class notebook on MS One Note (mobile devices)
HOW 2 ... record my voice while reading on MS OneNote (mobile device)
How to get the most out of learning?
Oli Cav has worked with us as a school to develop the methods and strategies for learning. Click on the link below to find out more.
