We believe that all children and young people should have access to a quality curriculum that will not only support their academic needs, but also develop the child emotionally, socially and morally.
We recognise that all students progress in different ways and through different approaches. With this in mind, our aim is to look at the child from a holistic point of view, collaborating with both pastoral and academic teams within the school to ensure that the student is the priority.
The purpose of the GPS ARC is to provide a full-time education to students who have found themselves disaffected with a mainstream learning environment, are struggling within a traditional setting, or are experiencing difficulties that present themselves as challenging. We will endeavour to use skills and experience to enable students to narrow the gap in academic and social ability offering them the best possible opportunities available.
The ARC will support students in re-engaging with education and develop their social skills, enabling them to make a positive contribution both to school and community life. This foundation will also prepare them for Post 16 education and eventual employment.
We expect the student will develop their social skills and emotional intelligence by participating in learning within a positive environment, through high expectations by all, reduced class sizes and aided by dedicated support staff.
We are an inclusive, understanding and proactive provision that works alongside students and their significant others, building relationships and a firm grounding for the individual students future.
When students make positive choices in lessons they will be awarded points. These are called RAW scores. RAW stands for Relationships, Attitude and Work. Students can get a maximum for 3 marks for each of these; 3 being outstanding and 0 being inadequate. The tutors keep a record of the scores which then get converted into stamps which can be cashed in as part of the GPS rewards system. The RAW score system supports as a visual aid for the individual as to how well they are performing that day.
For further information, please contact us.
This morning, our Y11s who are working with @NYBEP_NE on the ‘Your Choice Your Voice’ programme had great fun constructing chairs from balloons! The challenge was to make a chair that could be sat upon without it bursting & both teams succeeded! #proudtobepindar #thrivewithhope pic.twitter.com/gj47…
Coventry University are delivering four FREE online security workshops over the coming weeks. One of them is in Eastfield on 2nd March at Eastfield Community Centre (Legacy) 1pm-3pm. The sessions are designed to keep you safe online and avoid the many scams out there. pic.twitter.com/NOF8…
As part of their community project, the ARC learners have visited Saint Cecilia's this week. They have enjoyed getting to know the residents and games of boccia, dominoes and beetle drive! #proudtobepindar #thrivewithhope pic.twitter.com/jvt0…
Looks like we have an engineer in the making! Cheryl from @NYBEP said that Cameron’s bridge was the best she’d ever seen in the ‘Your Voice, Your Choice’ workshop this morning. #proudtobepindar #thrivewithhope #engineering pic.twitter.com/YDgD…
We are very lucky to have @EmotionSwitch working with our Year 7s on Tuesday mornings this half term. They are learning valuable life skills as they work through their ‘My Success Blueprint’ Journal.’ #proudtobepindar #thrivewithhope #EmotionSwitch pic.twitter.com/UDpC…