Rockpool is an SEN Enhanced Provision within our mainstream school for children with significant cognition and learning needs who benefit from a smaller, highly structured, and nurturing learning environment while remaining part of the wider school community.

Rockpool offers a personalised, sensory-informed curriculum that is carefully adapted to meet each child’s developmental stage, communication profile, and learning style. Teaching focuses on building communication, independence, emotional regulation, social interaction, and functional learning skills alongside early literacy and numeracy. Learning is delivered through practical, experiential, and multi-sensory approaches, with high levels of adult support, repetition, and scaffolding to enable children to achieve success and develop confidence.

A strong emphasis is placed on nurture, relationships, and emotional wellbeing. Staff provide consistent routines, visual supports, and co-regulation strategies to help pupils feel safe, secure, and ready to learn. The environment is calm, predictable, and responsive to sensory needs, with access to sensory resources and opportunities for regulation throughout the day.

Although pupils access a specialist curriculum within Rockpool, they remain valued members of the school community. Children are supported to join mainstream peers for identified sessions and activities that match their strengths, interests, and developmental needs. This may include assemblies, playtimes, lunchtimes, topic work, practical subjects, Forest School, enrichment activities, trips, or selected curriculum lessons. Inclusion opportunities are carefully planned to promote social interaction, belonging, communication, and confidence while ensuring pupils are appropriately supported to succeed.

Rockpool works closely with families and external professionals, including Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Educational Psychologists, and SEND advisory teams, to ensure a holistic and consistent approach to each child’s development. Outcomes focus not only on academic progress, but also on communication, emotional wellbeing, independence, engagement, and preparation for future learning and life.

Key People:

Elyse
Jordan
Sabia
Marlena