The school is able to access input from our central Clinical Team. The team consists of a Consultant Educational Psychologist, Speech & Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist.
These are available to young people that need these services to help remove barriers to learning and progress. The team works collaboratively with the staff at Crookhey Hall School to promote our pupils’ health and well-being
Nurture Provision
The Nurture provision within Crookhey Hall School provides additional support for students who have difficulty accessing the curriculum. Every pupil is assessed in terms of their speech, language and communication skills by a highly skilled practitioner who visits school on a regular basis to assess the progress of individual young people and to advise staff on planned intervention strategies where needed.
The Nurture Team also utilises Precision Teaching to promote and accelerate reading, writing and communication. This allows staff to pinpoint specific learning difficulties and so put together an individual learning programme with the objective of enabling the student to fully access the curriculum.
In addition, the Nurture Team helps students to deal with their behavioural and emotional difficulties. A target system is in place across the school which allows us to monitor progress the students are making towards specific targets and means that intervention strategies can be more clearly targeted where necessary.
The Nurture Provision is central to the aims of the whole school and is constantly looking to expand. We hope to include an element of art therapy in the near future and, having become part of the National Nurture Network, we are able to tap into the resources and expertise of over 700 other nurture providers.