SEND Provision | Brackley STEAM Park Academy

Our SEND provision supports those with additional needs and disabilities

“Where Every Child Thrives, Nurtured, Succeed Together”

Brackely STEAM Park Academy provides proactive Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision and extracurricular activities through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). We have a shared vision to ensure our setting is a happy place, a healthy place, a safe place, and a place where our pupils are nurtured and educated, and to explore the love of learning to gain skills and promote positive wellbeing and develop self-esteem.

We provide an interesting but inspirational setting, and our educational materials are therapeutic for the children.

We warmly welcome everybody into our community, and the dedicated and dependable volunteering staff members and myself, along with parents, work together to make our setting a happy, safe, and nurturing setting where children can achieve their full potential and develop as confident individuals. We provide a learning environment that enables all pupils to make the greatest possible progress and achieve their full potential in a caring, supportive, and fully inclusive environment.

Pupils may learn differently and have an intensive interest, and pupils may have a preference for independent play to explore and learn at their own pace without the pressures and fast-paced challenges.

Sessions are in quiet, peaceful morning and afternoon sessions supporting pupils with ASD, social complexities (social communication), social, emotional and mental health (SEMH), cognitive and learning difficulties, sensory needs, dyspraxia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD and PDA. Children learn through experiential learning, extra activities, and active discovery learning, including outdoor learning.

Children are freely allowed to print off their work and anything they choose as a preferred interest via their logins.

Below are learning resources that children also favour:

- Digital visual science experiments
- Digital Lego designing
- Lego construction
- Sensory applications
- Dragon designing
- Planets and space exploration learning
- Digital comic making
- Stop motion animations
- Minecraft Education
- Tynker Minecraft Education
- Tynker game maker coding
- 3D printing
- 3D pen creations
- 3D art
- Junk modelling
- Creation modelling
- Unplugged technology activities
- D&T
- Science
- Lego Robotics
- Discovery physics experiments
- Art and crafts
- Sensory science sand experiments

There are a number of factors why parents may want to arrange these provisions for their children, for example:

Illness and physical disability
A desire to home school while making use of education settings for some subjects
Primary setting refusal due to social, emotional and mental health
Allowing time for integration
A staggered return to learning after an absence for any reason
Social communication difficulties and anxiety

Click here to visit our SEND page to learn more

Volunteer Opportunities

Brackley STEAM Park Academy are seeking passionate and ambitious volunteers to support class sessions with pupils ages 4-11.

You will collaborate closely with us to deliver captivating lessons and support their learning including one-to-one and listen to them read.

By volunteering with us as a student teacher or educator volunteer, you will have the opportunity to develop valuable skills in teaching, leadership, primary education and communication to advance skills and experience whilst having a love for learning and education.

For further information for this post and application form, please email [email protected] or telephone 01280 811 356.

All volunteers are required an Enhanced DBS check (Criminal record check carried out by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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Limited places for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday morning and afternoon sessions for pupils ages 4-11. Further information, please get in touch 01280 811 356 or [email protected]