At Brook View School, our Flexible Curriculum Pathways are designed to meet the diverse and highly individualised needs of our children and young people. These pathways are shaped around three core models of learning: the Pre-Formal, Informal, Semi‑formal, and Formal curriculum pathways. Each pathway provides a structured yet adaptable route through learning, ensuring that every pupil can access meaningful, relevant, and appropriately challenging experiences that reflect their starting points, strengths, and aspirations.

You can find out more about the Flexible Curriculum Pathways here.

Situated on over 20 acres of beautiful North West countryside, Brook View School provides a rich and varied environment where pupils have the space, resources, and support to thrive. Our expansive grounds allow us to embed hands‑on, experiential and outdoor learning opportunities throughout the curriculum, supporting emotional regulation, sensory exploration, and practical skill development.

For many of our pupils, difficulties in language and communication, social relationships, and rigidity in thinking, behaviour, and interests, alongside a wide range of sensory differences, present significant barriers to accessing learning in traditional settings. Our role is to help pupils understand these challenges, develop their strengths, and build strategies that enable them to engage successfully with education and with the world around them.

Brook View School delivers a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum, fully aligned with our funding agreements and meeting all Independent School Standards. Our curriculum is specifically designed for children and young people whose primary area of need is autism spectrum disorder, with additional speech, language, communication and cognitive needs.

Across the school, the entire curriculum, whether academic, vocational, pastoral, or experiential is used purposefully to develop the key skills our pupils need for learning and for preparing for adulthood. This includes:

• Communication and interaction, using a total‑communication approach
• Cognition and learning, with personalised strategies and structured teaching
• Life skills and independence, taught both in the classroom and through real‑world experiences across our 20‑acre site
• Social understanding and positive relationships, developed through supported interactions and community‑based learning
• Physical and sensory development, supported through tailored programmes, outdoor spaces, and therapeutic approaches

Our focus is on lifelong learning, ensuring students build the knowledge, resilience, confidence, and practical skills needed to access future education, training, employment, and meaningful adult lives.

"Pupils at Brook View School are greeted each day by nurturing staff. They feel cared for,
and their interactions with adults show that they feel safe."

- Ofsted Report 2025