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Offering
accreditation to GCSE and beyond
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Committed
to placing safeguarding at the heart of all we do
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Providing
our students with a sense of success
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Helping
our students make their own positive choices
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Giving
unconditional support
Schools
On Track Education Services Ltd currently has 8 school sites located around the country.
Head Teacher
Julie Dixon-Higgins
01803 866462
A Section 41 Approved School
Our School
On Track Education in Totnes is an independent special school registered for 48 full time students aged 7 - 19. It caters for students with a range of complex needs including behavioural, emotional and social difficulties and autism. The school opened in 2005.
The main school site has the facilities to deliver a wide ranging curriculum comprising academic and vocational programmes. The main school site includes workshop facilities for motor engineering and construction, art and music studios, a food technology kitchen, a range of specialist classrooms, a gym and multi-use games area. Through our Woodlands and Yarner sites we are able to offer additional facilities including access to woodland, farmland and gardens to enhance our curriculum offer.
Each student has a personalised plan which can include academic and vocational qualifications and accreditation including GCSE, BTEC, Functional Skills, Entry Level and AQA Unit Awards across a wide variety of subjects. Students can work 1:1, be part of small groups, or have a combination of these. Our programmes combine the best of therapeutic intervention with accredited programmes of experiential and academic learning. Each student's plan is completely flexible to changing needs.
We are able to offer full or part time education and/or intervention and outreach services for students with a variety of special educational needs. Schools, both secondary and primary, can buy into our education or intervention services either for short term spot purchase places or through a Service Level agreement.
On Track Policies
Staff Code of Conduct- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Annex 1
- Anti-Bullying Policy
- Complaints Policy
- Behaviour Management Policy
- E-Safety Policy
- First Aid Policy
- Health & Safety Policy
- Risk Management Policy
- Whistleblowing Policy
- Equality & Diversity Policy
School Information
- Totnes Prospectus
- Ofsted Report July 2018
- Term Dates 2019-2020
- Term Dates 2020-2021
- Totnes Newsletter March 2020
All policies are available through the school.
Keeping your child safe online - https://www.nspcc.org.uk/
Head Teacher
Jane Wilson
Telephone: 01945 580898
A Section 41 Approved School
Our School
On Track Wisbech school is an independent DFE registered, co-educational day school providing specialist education for students aged 11-18. We offer boys and girls with a range of special educational needs and diagnosis of communication difficulties, challenging behaviour, social, emotional and mental health difficulties and more complex needs, an opportunity to flourish in a more bespoke and individualised environment.
Alongside a personalised curriculum, students will have the benefit of an experienced and knowledgeable staff team who are able to deliver a therapeutic and holistic educational experience. We always strive to enable students to reach their personal best and to focus toward a successful future.
Each student’s needs are met through a careful and precise assessment process, a comprehensive intervention programme and continual tracking of progress and achievement. As specialist professionals we aim to ensure that every personalised programme combines the best of therapeutic intervention with a curriculum that truly reflects each student’s needs and interest and equips them to play a full part in life and work. This innovative, broad and balanced On Track ethos helps us provide an education based on individual student’s requirements, creates a passion for learning and a focus on employability skills. These personalised programmes aim to restore young people’s self-confidence, self-esteem, self-control and self-motivation through a flexible, personalised and needs-led programme with absolute care, nurture and support.
What can we offer that’s different from mainstream?
- High staffing ratios
- Key worker support for all students
- Smaller group sizes
- A wide range of activities and experiences both on and off site
- A highly motivating working environment
- Positive engagement to proactively promote learning
- A diverse range of vocational and academic programmes
- A focus on wellbeing and self-management
- Personalised programmes part time or full time
- Flexibility in the programmes of study
- An extensive enrichment programme of educational trips and experiences.
- Creative approaches to meeting the needs of more vulnerable and complex learners
- Clear focus on progress through assessment
The Curriculum
The On Track Curriculum provides a diverse, broad and balanced alternative curriculum which places value on the development of a wide range of skills and aptitudes. All students will focus on the core skills of Communication, literacy, numeracy, digital competence and social engagement to provide a model of life skills. The curriculum provides flexible accreditation pathways across all subjects and levels from Entry level through to BTEC & GCSE to meet the needs of each individual student and maximise their potential.
Here are the Curriculum plans for Wisbech:
English Mathematics Science Mental Wellbeing
Design and Technology Cooking Citizenship
The School Premises
Our school site is a single storey building on a light industrial estate on the outskirts of the town. There are nine classrooms, including a music studio, a kitchen, two vocational workshops and an astro turf sports enclosure.
On Track Policies
- Staff Code of Conduct
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Annex 1
- Anti Bullying Policy
- Behaviour Management Policy
- Complaints Policy
- Whistleblowing Policy
- Equality & Diversity Policy
School Information
- Wisbech Prospectus
- Ofsted Report 2018
- Term Dates 2019-2020
- Spring 2020 Newsletter
- Autumn 2019 Newsletter
- Norfolk Skills & Careers Fayre
- Student Replica Model of Aircraft
- New Outdoor Gym!
Copies of all On Track policies including the Complaints Procedure can be obtained on request from Head Office or the School.
Keeping your child safe in a modern world- links to services and guidance in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
Safeguarding
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support
Prevent
Prevent is the Government’s strategy to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, in all its forms. Prevent works at the pre-criminal stage by using early intervention to encourage individuals and communities to challenge extremist and terrorist ideology and behaviour
- https://www.norfolklscb.org/prevent/
- https://www.cambslscb.co.uk/report-a-safeguarding-concern/page-10/
Internet E-safety
- https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/professionals-online-safety-helpline
- https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/cyber-bullying/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIye3A8OTC1wIVBGYbCh36vAcKEAMYAyAAEgIT2vD_BwE
- https://www.nspcc.org.uk/
preventing-abuse/keeping- children-safe/online-safety/
Mental Health
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