Our curriculum underpins our ethos and aims to ensure that pupils are given the opportunity to achieve their full potential within a supportive community.
We work closely with our clinical team, parents, carers and staff to ensure we help pupils develop their skills to become as independent as possible and to improve their wellbeing.
As a SEND school delivering education to a diverse group of pupils, our curriculum has been adapted and tailored to meet individual needs; we believe all children deserve the right to an education that will support them to become happy and confident individuals with achievements that will support them in their future.
At Napier School we ensure access to the curriculum areas that are listed in the Independent School Standards (2019). In accordance with this we undertake to provide a curriculum that meets the needs of each child based on the terms of their Education, Health, and Care Plan. All pupils receive full-time supervised education, in which they experience a curriculum that includes a range of linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technological, human, social, physical, aesthetic, and creative aspects appropriate to their age, aptitude and stage of development. The overriding aim of the curriculum is to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children in terms of individual learning, independence, personal growth, and development.
The Early Years Foundation Stage
There are seven areas of learning and development that shape the EYFS programme. All areas of learning and development are important and inter-connected.
Three areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive. These three areas are communication and language, physical development, personal, social and emotional development.
Children are also supported in four specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied. The specific areas are literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design.