Stepping up Pathway
The Stepping Up pathway spans key stages 2 to 4 and is designed for our learners who have severe learning difficulties.
Pupils with severe learning difficulties learn through best through play, exploration, practical activities, opportunities to revisit and retrieve knowledge and skills, and community involvement.
The Stepping Up curriculum enables pupils to:
- Develop communication skills using a total communication approach (speech, gesture, sign or symbol) so that they can interact with other people, make choices, follow instructions and explanations and access the key concepts needed for learning.
- Establish and accumulate key knowledge and skills in all subjects.
- Learn to co-operate with other people, to build positive relationships and to take responsibility for themselves.
- Learn the skills which will help them be more independent in adult life.
- Learn about the world around them and the wider community.
My Communication and Literacy
enabling pupils to communicate with other people using speech, sign, objects or symbols, to express themselves confidently and to understand what other people are communicating to them. Enabling pupils to enjoy reading books, stories and rhymes, pictures and written information, to participate in positive experiences sharing all forms of literacy with adults and other children and to learn strategies to take meaning from pictures, print and symbols.
My Thinking and Problem Solving
enabling pupils to explore, organise and communicate about the physical world, to develop concepts in numeracy, shape space and measures and to apply those concepts in meaningful activities and real world contexts.
My Personal Development
enabling pupils to develop positive relationships with others, to live and work within a community, to become more independent, to be safe and healthy and to care for their environment. This strand includes Relationships and Sex Education.
My World, My Community
Science
enabling pupils to explore and talk about the natural world, to investigate and observe change and to develop their interest in and knowledge of living things, materials, forces and light and dark.
ICT
enabling pupils to use a wide range of technology purposefully and safely as a means of communication, to make practical tasks easier, to share information, to gain independence and information about the wider world and as a leisure skill.
My Personal Geography and History
enabling pupils to develop an interest in the world around them and to build a sense of time, a sense of place and a sense of community. Pupils learn about and celebrate their own faith, language and culture as well as those of the wider community.
My World of Work
enabling pupils to occupy themselves purposefully, to take their place in the community and to be ready for paid employment.
My Physical Development
enabling pupils to develop physical control, take part individually or as a group in play, leisure and fitness activities and to develop a healthy lifestyle.
My Creative Development
enabling pupils to explore colour, texture, shape, pattern, form and space in 2 and 3 dimensions, to listen to and participate actively in a range of musical experiences, to develop their imagination and to plan and generate designs.