Bright Futures School is a very small, special independent school that provides education for children and young people with autism and/or other developmental difficulties between the ages of 5 and 16 years.
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The philosophy that informs our autism education practice at Bright Futures School emerged from a study into the feasibility of a parent led special school for children with autism/ Asperger’s syndrome that was completed in 2009.The feasibility study identified research published by the National Autistic Society that focused on over 200 young adults who had a diagnosis of ‘Asperger’s syndrome’. All had relatively high IQ’s and good language skills. Some 50% of these bright individuals had gone on to higher education after secondary school.
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Practice – What They Do: Detailed information about how they use levels 1 and 2 of our ‘guiding’ approach to do this is available on our ‘Useful resources’ page. For learning in areas such as literacy and numeracy, pupils who have difficulty in responding to traditional teaching methods and workbooks may quite readily draft out an appeal for donations for the weekly session at the Oldham food bank, calculate and measure ingredients for a cookery activity or work out the costs of items required for their latest project.Staff slowly build trusting relationships with pupils, finding opportunities during carefully planned joint activities to enable pupils to have experiences of competence. This increases pupils’ motivation to engage in learning and as a result, all pupils are now consistently achieving school attendance of 95%+.
Bright Futures School is registered with the Department for Education as a school providing for pupils aged 5 to 16 years. School pupils will have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and a diagnosis of autism, social communication disorder or related developmental difficulty. They may well have good language skills but will have experienced difficulties in coping with the demands of other education settings. Parents will be seeking a school that provides a quiet environment, lots of personal 1:1 support and a different approach to learning.
5.55 miles
