Cognition and Learning Unit

The Cognition and Learning Unit Curriculum is skills based and builds on children’s academic ability from their unique starting points and works to build their knowledge and skills. Taking into account the difficulties our pupils face in terms of working memory, retention of knowledge and how this impacts long term learning. We also support pupils’ holistic social development.

We support the cognitive development of our pupils through:

• Highly differentiated literacy and numeracy programmes at an appropriate developmental level. 

• Individualised intensive interventions to address additional long-term learning and skill development, planned and differentiated by the class/subject teacher following specialist advice. 

• Personalised timetables but with opportunities for whole class integration

• Support for social inclusion to develop communication, language and listening skills. 

• Access to learning aids, including visual aids and kinaesthetic resources. For example, dictionaries, writing frames, handwriting guides, task boards, cubes, magnetic letters etc

We support the Emotional Regulation of our pupils by providing bespoke approaches: 

• Sensory Diet

• Fit to Learn

• Sound therapy

• Rebound therapy

• Zones of Regulation

In addition to this, our learning environments and resources are modified and adapted to meet the needs of all pupils and ensure that our curriculum is accessible, desirable and engaging for all learners.