Haywood Grove School is a community that serves children with significant social, emotional and mental health challenges, and their families.
We have a passionate conviction that all our children ...
Site Support
Practical details
Volunteering • Long term role
Contact person
Catherine Smith
#127578
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We are a special school that has increased in size over the last decade. We have developed and extended our site and how need help to maintain it at its best.
Haywood Grove has doubled in size and we have an extensive site that has been developed with our children in mind. This means that now we need additional support to be able to ensure that our site is attractive, clear and clean for our children and can be maintained to the highest standard.
We are therefore looking for people who might want to help us complete agreed practical tasks so that it is welcoming and ready to use all of the time. We would also welcome people with ideas and creative skills who could further enhance the site that we have. Anyone who might want a project to work on is very welcome! We would love to inject some colour around the site too so DIY and gardening skills would be helpful.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a message via this website and we can arrange to have a chat.
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About Haywood Grove School
Haywood Grove School is a community that serves children with significant social, emotional and mental health challenges, and their families.
We have a passionate conviction that all our children and community can achieve. We are optimistic about success and accept no restriction on what is possible for all people in our community. We work respectfully and responsively with our families to ensure that the impact of our support can be seen both at school and home.
We demonstrate high expectations for every child, through a high-quality creative curriculum and flexible and imaginative teaching that addresses each individual child’s learning and social, emotional, and sensory needs. We get to know the children’s talents, their strengths and their weaknesses and build their learning around these, in addition to facilitating the accumulation of knowledge and skills across a broad and balanced range of subjects. We do the same for all community members.
We view behavioural challenges as regulatory issues and address all behaviours that would not be right for a safe and civil society. We provide the right kind of support, at the right time, in the right way such that children learn to regulate their own behaviour through internal control within the context of healthy and secure relationships, rather than by external force. We make sure all our community members know how to stay regulated so that they can best help our children.
We view behaviour as communication of thoughts and feelings, we listen to what children say and what they don’t say, and we engage in collaborative problem-solving with them, to find solutions. We understand that their behaviour is driven by high levels of stress and support and teach them the explicit skills they need to return to a state of calm alert, ready for learning.
We prepare our children for the next part of their educational journey and beyond, shaping their lives for the better. They become independent, resourceful, resilient and humane members of the wider world. They know their own worth and the positive contribution they can make to their own families and to a civil society.
Everyone is welcome at Haywoodd Grove.
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