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Personalisation in Education: The Orchard Hill College Model. n Vines. OHC provides an empowering and positive environment which enables individuals to aspire, learn and achieve within a self determined and meaningful curriculum. The Student Group.
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Personalisation in Education: The Orchard Hill College Model
n Vines OHC provides an empowering and positive environment which enables individuals to aspire, learn and achieve within a self determined and meaningful curriculum.
The Student Group • Learners with severe/profound and multiple learning difficulties and/or disabilities • Learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorder • Learners with Challenging Behaviour • Learners who have additional sensory impairments (visual/hearing) • Learners with additional mental health needs (dual diagnosis)
A Brief History • Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children – population of young people reaching adulthood with learning disabilities • Creation of Orchard Hill • FE Centre started in 1983 • Received College status in early 1990s • Full-time places for school leavers approved and funded by FEFC (now LSC) • Relocated to Old Town Hall Wallington in 2004
Core Principals • Provides a non-residential educational service, which offers equality of opportunity and respect to all students and staff. • Provides real life learning opportunities within a framework which is flexible, safe and responsive to individual needs. • Aims at all times to build quality relationships and interactions which respect anindividual’s potential to learn. • Enables and empowers learners to identify and work towards their personal aspirations.
Curriculum Provision Full time: • Three-Year Building Skills for Independence Course • Post-16 Course Part time: • Skills for Access • Vocational Progression
Curriculum Framework • Individual learning programmes • Created with each individual learner using person centred approaches, including: • personal tutorials, • student planning meetings • flexible curriculum framework • Learning process mapped out in the learner’s individual learning plan (ILP), using long term aims and termly objectives to chart learners’ progress. • The College Curriculum Framework complements the national Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework which covers communication, literacy and numeracy.
Curriculum Framework Foundation Skills • Literacy and Communication • Numeracy • ICT • Gross Motor • Fine Motor • Awareness of Self and Others • Choice Making • Interaction with Others (Note: these Elements will be common across all learning)
Curriculum Framework Personal, Social, Health & Emotional Development • Cultural Studies • Drama • Movement and Dance • Music • Art & Design • Citizenship • Building Relationships • Assertiveness and Self-advocacy • Health
Curriculum Framework Practical Living • Science • Food Preparation • Household Skills • Health and Safety at Home • Accessing the Community • Travel Training
Curriculum Framework Living and Work • Sports and Fitness • Work Related Learning • Work Based Learning • Leisure Related Learning • Leisure Based Learning • Environmental Awareness in Work and Leisure • Travel Training
Additional Specialist Provision Physiotherapy Nursing Speech and Language Therapy Occupational Therapy Music Therapy Hydrotherapy Visual and Hearing Assessments
Campus Structure • Wallington - Old Town Hall - St Michael’s Church - Trinity Church - Baptist Church - URC - Cromwell House (offices)
Campus Structure • Lambeth - Redfearn Centre, Vauxhall - Landmark Centre, Tulse Hill
Campus Structure The Benefits: • Proximity of location • Tailoring of venue • Improved community interaction • Vocational opportunities • Increased numbers
Other Community Links • Library and library café • Coffee morning (Methodist Church) • Parks department • SCOLA • Ecology Centre • Westcroft Leisure Centre and other gyms • Regisrtry Office (w/e) • High Street shops (e.g. Peacocks)
The Future • ASD/VPU - joint development with Carshalton College • Enhanced satellite venues in Wallington - BedZED • Vocational opportunities – shop • Other community projects • Centre of Excellence
Future Funding Issues Machinery of Government Changes: • Replacement of DfES by DCSF and DIUS • Replacement of LSC by YPLA and SFA • Growth of Direct Payments?
My Details Simon Vines Vice Principal Orchard Hill College Old Town Hall Wallington SM6 0NB Tel: 020 8254 7820 email: svines@suttonlea.org