The Eliot Centre curriculum is differentiated to ensure learners make progress towards achieving GCSE or Level 2 qualifications at the end of Key Stage 4. 

The Curriculum is designed to: 

• Create a strong sense of Purpose and direction for students, helping provide internal motivation required to achieve highly. 

• Offer student leadership skills and opportunities to develop these, contributing to developing confidence and aspiration. 

• Creating a strong sense of belonging and identity.

From entry all learners attend approximately 20% of lessons within the mainstream of Brompton Academy, maintaining their base within the Eliot Centre for form and core subjects. This percentage will increase in years 10 and 11 once GCSE options have been chosen. This ensures that the Eliot students are fully integrated with their peers which will benefit them in their post 16 education (SEND Code of Practice 2015). 

As students’ progress from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4 they will benefit from the broad and extensive options available accessing a minimum of seven GCSE or level 2 courses as part of our wide and inclusive curriculum offer with all students. 

Each learner will have a personalised provision as set out in their EHCP. This provision will be delivered either within the mainstream lessons via the support of our excellent teaching or (where necessary) a teaching assistant. Alternatively, within the Eliot Centre.

At present our offer consists of the following interventions/provisions:

·      Social and communication skills

·      Sensory Integration Support Intervention

·      Self-Regulation Intervention

·      Speech and Language support

·      Literacy and Numeracy support

·      Gross and Fine Motor Skills Development

·      Study skills

·      Organisational skills including visual timetables or personalised visual resources

·      Independent Life Skills – Including money management, shopping, home living skills, using transport and career and employment

·      Safe and calm space during unstructured times, such as break and lunch time

·      Smaller Examination Environment

We understand that the transition for students can be particularly challenging, and we are committed to providing comprehensive support to ease this process.

Our approach includes several key initiatives:

·      Organise primary school visits to familiarise students with their new environment.

·      Conduct one-on-one meetings with parents to address concerns and gather insights.

·       Invite learners to attend a weekly transition program in Term 6 of year 6 to help students gradually adjust.

·      We hold a dedicated Transition Day to provide a hands-on experience of their new school.

·      Our staff attend Year 6 PCAR meetings to ensure a smooth handover of important information from primary to secondary.

Together, these efforts aim to create a supportive and nurturing transition experience for every student attending the Eliot Centre.

The Eliot Centre has a specific entry criteria and separate admissions procedure through a consultation process with Medway Council. There are 20 student spaces available per year group, meaning there are 100 places in total across the Centre. 

The Eliot Centre admissions criteria are as follows: 

Students must hold an EHCP where Speech, Language or Social Communication disorder is the primary need with or without concomitant

ASD or anxiety

or 

Students must hold an EHCP that identifies some form of literacy, language or communication difficulty, social vulnerability, or Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) as a primary need where the child has significant Speech and Language and/or Social Interaction and Communication needs e.g., Dyslexia, Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD) and Dyscalculia

or 

Students must hold an EHCP that identifies ASD or SEMH (i.e., socially vulnerable) as a primary need where child has significant Speech and Language and/or Social Interaction and Communication needs but not where these needs present as complex and challenging behaviour

And in all cases: 

• Student’s behavioural needs, because of their learning needs, should be compatible with the efficient education and emotional wellbeing of the other students in the group with the vulnerabilities and anxieties displayed by students in the Eliot Centre.

• Have Speech and Language Interventions as specified within the EHCP (e.g., 1:1, small group work, in class, whole academy, TAs following an SLT programme).

• Be working within KS2 levels upon entry (expected level for Year 3 minimum).

• Be able to access mainstream lessons for some of the time.

• Demonstrate the ability to carry out some work independently.

• Require most lessons to be delivered in small group or specialist setting.

• Students will access GCSE courses from Year 10 in the wider Brompton Academy.

• When considering a placement of a student in the Eliot Centre, Medway Council will consult with UKAT in accordance with the SEND Code of Practice 2015.