Empowering Student Futures

Kingsley Academy is a new Alternative provision that will offers sessions for students that are referred from their home school based on the academic achievement, engagement with school and their behaviour. Students that will come to us may have EHC (Education, Health and Care) plans, Behaviour plans or ILP (Individual Learning Plan) to support them with engaging in education and to gain their best possible outcomes that will aid them to obtain qualifications leading into work, so to make an impact on their contributions and understanding of modern Britain.

 

We will teach our learners in small groups of 5 or 6 learners in each vocational area within our building. Our curriculum is ambitious, holistic, coherent, and focused on supporting each learner with his or her specific needs. It is personalised to allow for the greatest progress towards clearly defined end, with the purpose of gaining the students qualification whilst they are with us. The breadth, depth and cross-curricular coverage of specific subjects promotes knowledge, understanding, remembering and application of skills in life. This will be achieved through creative, engaging and meaningful learning activities and experiences enhanced by multi sensory approaches. Teaching new concepts will be done in small chunks, which are more easily understood and do not result in cognitive overload, we will sequence the curriculum and use a kinaesthetic approach to build upon foundations of learning.

 

At Kingsley Academy, we teach our students functional skills from Entry 1 to level 2 in English, maths and ICT, we also offer a range of vocational courses. Due to the needs of the learners that are referred to us, a less classroom-based approach will be applied and therefore, through practical sessions within their chosen vocational area, the functional skills criteria will be embedded. We are committed in offering our students a range of experiences, and acknowledge that due to the experiences that our students have already had with education, that it is not one size fits all. Most of our learners would not benefit from an education in it most conventional form and; therefore, with this in mind, we utilise a kinaesthetic and therapeutic approach to delivering the curriculum.

 

Our curriculum offer is bespoke and caters for specific vocations such as; Construction (Plumbing, Bricklaying, Plastering, Tiling, Painting and Decorating), Warehousing and Logistics, Music within our recording studio, Hairdressing and Barbering, ICT Inclusive of Photography, Retail and Mechanics.

 

We enrol students throughout the year, as and when they are referred to us from their home school. The average length of stay for each student will vary greatly depending on the referring agency and the progress made by the student. However, we stipulate a minimum of 12 weeks on a part-time basis. Some students progress so well with our support and will successfully reintegrate into mainstream school. Other students may be required to stay with us until the end of their compulsory education and move on to further education, employment, or apprenticeships, some may require further support and move on to SEND schools.