Early Years at Ravenswood School


What's special about early years at Ravenswood School?

 

 

Special Provision for Special People

 

• Complex special educational needs.

• Additional vulnerabilities associated with their health and care needs.


However they are delightful individuals with strong personalities

 

 

Specialist learning environments we provide

 

Specialist Environment
• Autism friendly environment, which helps us all be calm, alert and ready to learn.
• TEACCH workstations
• Safe enclosed outdoor play areas
• Interactive room
• Safe Pond area for forest skills

 

And local facilities we use:
• Play Park
• Nailsea town, shops, etc.
• Christ Church in Nailsea
• Beachfront at Clevedon


We also have sports play dates with children at New Siblands School.

 

 

 

 

Partnerships with parents and carers


• We carefully plan each child’s transition into Ravenswood, meeting with families and professionals who already know the child well.
• Daily communication with parents/carers is important even if families live a distance from the school. We always write a message in the home-school diary and are available for phone calls.
• Shelly Smith, our Family Support Advisor and Liz Mullane our Healthcare Assistant are always ready to meet with families. Katie Barnes, our Deputy Headteacher is an expert in early years provision for children with complex needs.  Please do contact us, no worry is too small or question too silly.
• Every term we have tea and coffee afternoons which are informal ways to talk with staff and meet other families.

 

 

 

Your child’s progress

We want to celebrate with you the progress your child makes and do this informally through the above communication systems. We also will share with you:
• EYFS Progress Reports
• Learning Diaries
• Learning Targets
• Specialist professionals we work with
• Speech and language therapists
• Occupational therapist
• Behaviour support
• Paediatric health teams
• Child and adolescent mental health team

 

 

 

Specialist professionals we work with include:


• Speech and language therapist
• Occupational therapist
• Physiotherapist
• Behaviour support
• Paediatric health teams
• Child and adolescent mental health team

 

 

 

Specialist Teaching and Learning Strategies we use here at Ravenswood

 

Teachers and support staff are experts in supporting children with complex needs. They work collaboratively with parents and multi-agency professionals in planning and delivering learning programmes to maximise the progress of each child.

 

Listed below are some examples of the strategies we use here at Ravenswood:

 

• TEACCH
• Sensory integration
• MAKATON
• Task analysis
• Phonics
• Special time
• Toileting
• Attention autism
• Intensive interaction
• PECs
• Dance therapy
• Swimming
• Child and adult