Cambian New Elizabethan offers a diverse, active and highly structured curriculum within an environment that is calm, consistent and purposeful. We aim to ensure that all areas of need from the individuals’ Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) are well provided for.

The Cambian Group Mission Statement is as follows:

‘To actively enable each and every one of the people in our care to achieve their personal best’

In fulfilling the Cambian mission statement, New Elizabethan School provide;

• A caring, holistic approach to the education and care of our young people, with a curriculum providing opportunities across the whole lived experience for our students
• A curriculum that addresses the very special needs of our learners, is ASC specific and that promotes individualised approaches for our learners
• A skilled staff team who are empathetic to the needs of the students and are trained to a high standard
• A therapeutic environment and facilities that maximise opportunities for students to learn and make progress
• A multidisciplinary approach to working where every professional around the child is fully involved and working together to secure best possible outcomes

Children are learning all the time and it is our responsibility to optimise learning opportunities throughout the entire school day.

Curriculum Offer

Students follow a broad and balanced curriculum at all ‘Key Stages’, enabling them to acquire knowledge and skills in thinking, speaking and listening, literacy and numeracy, and gain experience in scientific, technological, social, physical, and creative education.

We currently have two curriculum pathways at New Elizabethan School.

Pathway 1

• The Pathway 1 curriculum consists of adapted National Curriculum subjects, combining life skills, learning outside the classroom and creative subjects.
• The Pathway 1 curriculum is for those pupils who may have a range of needs, but who are cognitively able to access many aspects of a more formal curriculum framework, modified in line with pupil’s developmental level and additional needs.
• Pupils experience the Pathway 1 curriculum in both a discrete and theme-based approach that aims to develop thinking and independent learning skills enabling us to build learning capacity and lifelong skills.
• At New Elizabethan School we have adapted subjects and topics to reflect the needs of our pupils, whilst ensuring they provide ambition, challenge and progress.
• The Pathway 1 curriculum, which includes a rich diet of both core subjects and creative subjects, works to ensure that the experience of learning is smooth.
• Subjects taught underpin the core values through explicit references; practical subjects are designed to support fine and gross motor skills as well as providing pupils opportunities to develop skills for independent living and work beyond school.
• All subjects are designed to develops pupil’s ability to communicate effectively, and to learn about other communities, countries and cultures; an important part of British Values for New Eizabethan School.

Pathway 2

• Students in Pathway 2 benefit from a mixture of a therapeutic and structured approach to their learning. It allows students to access parts of the national curriculum by utilising appropriate pedagogy from the therapeutic and clinical support they receive. This means students have access to a range of interventions to support with eventually following a more traditional National Curriculum; though learning will often take place in very small chunks.
• The curriculum is sequenced to allow students to build upon their knowledge, understanding and skills. There are specific needs that will be addressed to get the student ready to learn.
• Alongside this, some learners will have project-based learning around their specific interests. This learning will incorporate all subjects in one overall outcome.
• We support pupils to consider different learning opportunities and apply them to real life situations. If pupils require a more bespoke curriculum, we adapt and tailor it to the needs of the individual. Where pupils show an aptitude in a particular area, they are encouraged to develop this to the highest level.

We support pupils to consider different learning opportunities and apply them to real life situations. If pupils require a more bespoke curriculum, we adapt and tailor it to the needs of the individual. Where pupils show an aptitude in a particular area, they are encouraged to develop this to the highest level.

Many pupils go on to gain nationally recognised accreditations during key stage 4 and 5.

Examples of qualifications offered are:

• English GCSE & Functional Skills (Reading, Writing, and Speaking & Listening) Entry Level to Level 2
• Math GCSE & Functional Skills (Entry Level to Level 2)
• Science GCSE and Entry Level Certificate
• Art GCSE & BTEC Level 1/2
• History GCSE and Entry Level Certificate
• Geography GCSE and Entry Level Certificate
• Digital Functional Skills qualification at Entry Level 3 & Level 1
• Food Technology BTEC Level 1/2
• Music BTEC at Level 1
• Digital Media Entry Level 3 & Level 1
• Junior Award Scheme (JAS)
• AQA Unit Awards
• OCN Units

Post-16 and Further Education

Education within Post 16 at New Elizabethan School is offered to students between the ages of 15 and 19 years. Where the student is chronologically in Year 11, but their abilities or individual needs means that a Post 16 programme would be more appropriate, access will be given to the full curriculum but enhanced with additional learning around life skills and independent living. This will be delivered through Maths, English, Digital Skills, Science, Home Cooking, PE, Work Experience, Vocational Courses and Experiences, and Independent Living and Life Skills Programme (OCN Progression and AQA Unit Awards). All students will have a bespoke timetable developed to meet their individual needs and the outcomes within their EHCP.

Whatever the appropriate route for each student, we are able to provide the right level of support to ensure success.  Our current focus in Post-16 is a drive to ensure students have a blend of academic success coupled with essential life skills to equip them for the next phase in their journey beyond our school.

We are skilled at supporting our learners to their next destination after a successful time at Cambian New Elizabethan School.