The Base

Gloucester Road Primary School offers an alternative classroom known as ‘The Base’ with the belief that all students with Social Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties that are expressed as extreme dysregulated behaviour and result in difficulty accessing the mainstream classroom, but with intensive support and guidance, they can progress in their education.

The Base and its staff will understand the difficulties and challenges facing students and their families. Gloucester Road Primary school will build upon these foundations within our students and their families.

The Base is staffed by a Teacher and Teaching Partners as follows:

Miss Jenkins

Mrs Shortman

Project Map - Term 1

Reading in Leopards

In Leopards, a whole class reading lesson is taught every day. Each child follows a bespoke intervention programme to support their reading which might include 1:1 phonics interventions or 1:1 reading comprehension.

The children can keep their reading books in school and will read to an adult every day. Books are changed on a Friday.

Maths in Leopards

Maths is taught daily in Leopards with the children receiving adapted lessons and teaching to support their learning needs. We explore the different maths topics in practical ways, linking the topics to real life contexts and using our reasoning and problem solving skills to solve mathematical problems.

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Writing in Leopards

Writing is taught daily and is based on a book each term. We explore different aspects of grammar that help us to build sentences and the children write one outcome a week in their writing books, this could be a paragraph, a letter, a story. The other lessons are used for discussion, oral practice of sentences and developing their ideas. Children are supported in their writing which is adapted to meet their needs.

PE in Leopards

The children in Leopards rejoin their class for PE on their class's PE day.

Multi-sensory approach

In Leopards, we take a multi-sensory approach to learning. Some benefits to the mulit-sensory approach, which involves presenting learning in ways that engage multiple sesnse, are:

Improved memory: Engaging multiple senses creates more neural pathways for storing and retrieving information.
Better understanding: Multisensory learning can help students understand relationships between concepts and transfer information.

Critical thinking: Multisensory learning can help students develop critical thinking skills.

Engagement: Multisensory learning can help engage the whole class or group.

Discovery: Multisensory learning can help learners discover their learning style and the techniques that work best for them.

Lua - The Base Dog

Lua, the Base Dog joins Leopard's class four days a week. She supports with regulation and emotional literacy, helping them to name their emotions and developing strategies to regulate themselves, listens to children read, supports the children with mental health and is shown extra special work that the children are proud of.

Contact

Please contact the teachers using Seasaw, or you can catch us after school or book an appointment if you would like a meeting. We will do our best to answer any queries as soon as possible.