Sensory Curriculum Pathway
This pathway offers a multi-sensory approach to curriculum delivery designed to engage students with complex medical conditions, profound and multiple learning disabilities, and/or multi-sensory impairments.
A multi-sensory approach to learning
The Sensory curriculum uses a thematic, topic-based approach to learning through engagement in a range of practical, sensory, and experiential opportunities.
It allows students to focus on communication skills, alongside a wide range of therapies and programs from a range of multi-agencies.
The pathway is mainly class based with access to specialist resources such as an immersive sensory room, light room, hydrotherapy pool, music therapy and eye gaze technology.
Pupils are supported to learn through sensory experiences following a half-termly theme, where National Curriculum subjects are embedded throughout.
As part of sensory learning experiences, our pupils also explore important days and events throughout the year including Christmas, Eid, Holocaust Memorial Day, Remembrance and World Book Day.
In the world around us, all the information we receive is through our senses, which is why sensory experiences are essential for learning. In early development, the brain is wired through sensory experiences. Sensory stimulation supports concentration and motivation, gives meaning and builds memories.
The aim of the Sensory Pathway is to:
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Deliver individualised teaching based on individual student’s needs
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Integrate learning utilising all the senses; vision, olfaction, gustation, audition, somatosensory, vestibular and proprioception
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Teach through a multisensory approach
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Use specialist approaches to support pupils’ engagement, personal development and attainment
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Allow students to reach their full potential in a safe environment
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Support students to progress in terms of their EHCP outcomes to the best of their abilities
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Provide a flexibility within the sensory pathway to ensure every pupil has their needs met
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Provide a range of meaningful multisensory experiences that prepare students for life beyond Broadfield
Broadfield Aims
At Broadfield Specialist School we aim for our students on the sensory pathway to:
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Be happy
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Be able to form healthy relationships with those around them
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Become confident communicators of their wants and needs
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Be as independent as they can be
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Understand the world around them and be able to explore it
In Key Stage Three, pupils focus on multisensory learning experiences following the thematic curriculum and working toward their EHCP outcomes.
In Key Stage Four, pupils work toward WJEC Personal Progress units with the aim of completing an award, certificate or diploma over the two years alongside progress toward their EHCP outcomes.
