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Flamingo Bay and Retreat

Flamingo Bay

EYFS & KS1

Flamingo Bay is a specialist school devised intervention that has been set up specifically to support students with complex needs (particularly learning/ASD/communication difficulties).  It is a highly structured nurturing environment where children benefit from individual workstations, TEACCH style individualised approaches and visual timetables.   It has an exceptionally high ratio of adults to children and is structured around managing and catering for a small number of students with complex additional needs. The children work on the following:

• communication through play activities
• group turn taking activities
• activities to develop concentration/attention
• focus tasks to build independence
• IEP tasks
• expressive and receptive language tasks
• following instructions tasks
• social skills 

We typically describe the intervention as ‘getting children ready to learn’ by developing and extending their attention over time through a carefully structured programme of activities utilising evidence and research-based approaches:

• Intensive interaction (delivered with the advice and support of a speech and language therapist)
• Attention Autism (referred to as Bucket)
• Communication books (guidance and support from speech and language therapy service)
• Makaton sign
• Identiplay (play based intervention)
• Sensory circuits
• 1:1 and group Speech and Language intervention (delivered by Magic Words)

Where possible, children are to remain within their base classes when they are able to access the learning on offer.  Careful consideration is taken into account for the balance between learning needs and social needs, in order to promote inclusion with their immediate peers and year cohort.

All children will have a transition plan in which there is a view to them accessing the mainstream classroom.  On arrival into Bay children may access the intervention for 100% of the school day.  By the end of Year 2 we aim to have achieved a minimum of 50% in the mainstream classroom or more.

Flamingo Retreat

KS2

Flamingo Retreat is a specialist school devised intervention that has been set up specifically to support students with complex needs (particularly learning/ASD/communication difficulties).  It is a highly structured nurturing environment where children benefit from individual work stations, TEACCH style individualised approaches and visual timetables.  It has an exceptionally high ratio of adults to children and is structured around managing and catering for a small number of students with complex additional needs.  The children work on the following:

• Bespoke maths curriculum
• Bespoke English reading curriculum (including phonics)
• Bespoke English writing curriculum (with support from speech and language and utilising Colourful Semantics and/or Clicker)
• Daily self-regulating teaching (Zones of Regulation)
• 1:1 group and speech and language activities

All children accessing Retreat will access the wider curriculum in the mainstream base classrooms during the afternoon.  Children can access this provision for up to 50% of the school day.