Wize Up is an Independent school located within the Royal borough of Greenwich, that offers specialist alternative educational provision for young people both male and female aged 11-16 on a full-time and part-time basis.
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Wize Up provides full and part time education to students at KS3 – KS4 from the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham. Our curriculum is aimed at reaching students who are not currently in mainstream education for part or the remainder of their school career.
For those who are out of mainstream education for a period only, their aim is to ensure they are reintegrated with the tools to succeed in their next placement, be it returning to school or another school. These placements are referred to as short term placements, the curriculum is slightly different to those who are placed long term and completing their mainstream education at Wize Up. The curriculum for short term placements includes English and Maths in addition to Princes Trust program. The Princes Trust curriculum is offered as a cross curricular subject which includes elements of Science, Technology, Geography and Independent Living to name a few.
Young people who attend on long term placements (including those at KS4 on short term placements) have access to the full curriculum which is supported by a therapeutic approach focusing on ensuring emotional, social, academic or physical needs are met. This forms the foundation of the skills tool box, which supports the next step into further education or employment for young people.
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Founded in 2008, we work with up to 40 young people who have a variety of social, emotional, educational and behavioural needs which could not be fully catered for in mainstream education. These needs may include young people with Statements of Special Educational Needs, however due to our specialism all who attend are regarded as either "School Action or School Action Plus".
Admissions are received directly from schools and Local Education Authorities (LEA) who will, providing there is space make a referral by filling out a referral form and submitting this either via email or fax. They endeavour to make contact on the day the referral is received to arrange an induction with the young person and their parent/carer, schools and any other professional working with the family are welcome to accompany them to this appointment.
They are more then happy to have a telephone consultation with schools/LEA's prior to making a referral. They find that in most cases having a consultation before making the referral is extremely beneficial, not only as this helps to build a relationship with the referring body, it also provides with the opportunity to obtain an in-depth background on the young person to enable to identify areas to work towards.
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