Resource Base
Vision
Every child is seen for their strengths and uniqueness. We create a safe, joyful, and inclusive space where curiosity leads the way, play unlocks potential, and high engagement ensures progress is made. We welcome children and families to a place where everyone is included and celebrated for who they are.
Our Core Values
Child-Centred – We start with the child’s interests, strengths, and communication, ensuring learning is meaningful and personal.
Play-Based Exploration – Learning happens through play, discovery, and hands-on experiences that spark joy and motivation.
Independence & Empowerment – Every child is supported to take ownership of their learning, fostering confidence and autonomy.
Inclusivity & Respect – We celebrate diversity and ensure every child feels valued, respected, and safe.
Collaboration – Families, staff, the multi-agency team and children work together as partners in learning and growth.
Resilience & Growth – We nurture persistence, adaptability, and a love of lifelong learning.
High Aspirations – We believe every child can achieve and thrive surrounded by loving committed people.
Curriculum
We provide a bespoke approach to learning, to support children with often complex and widely differing needs. All pupils are supported to achieve, no matter how small the goal or milestone.
Our curriculum is relevant to each stage of a pupil’s learning journey, which ensures and appropriate mix of academic and life skills. All staff provide a culture of supportive independence, with a focus on preparing pupils to become the best they can be. Progress of learning, engagement, physical and emotional development is closely monitored by all staff, through daily classroom practices and through more bespoke raising engagement meetings. This ensures we are always aware of where a pupil is on their learning journey and what the appropriate next steps are.
We are part of multi-professional teams, working alongside families, education, health, social care. All these people support our ability to offer each pupil an individualised package; to meet all their needs and to ensure they thrive and learn to their full potential. We strongly encourage links with families as partners in learning and see this is a vital component in each pupil’s journey with us.
Our curriculum at OALCRB is skill and context based and encourages active engagement in learning. The curriculum focuses on developing the key skills of communication, cognition, independence, physical development and self-care, all transferrable skills that equip children for life beyond the school.
Our curriculum strives to be responsive to each learner and build on individual strengths and interests. A rolling plan is in place, which supports a balance of stimulating contexts for learning through different learning experiences, themes and subjects. Every child will follow designated pathways which aims to ensure the children have the opportunity to practice and develop their skills for they individual starting points. Every child has an individual pathway plan which identifies their learning priorities and any specialist strategies linked to their EHCP and subject specific learning.
The Resource Base curriculum encompasses complementary and overlapping curriculum elements and allows the use of personal (including engagement and sensory) and therapeutic approaches alongside subject based activities. The balance between subject based sessions, personal, behavioural and therapeutic input may vary for each of these pupils and is planned according to individual needs. It aims to promote independence, self- advocacy, pupil voice and opportunities for decision making for all pupils. The curriculum within the base is structured to ensure that Personal, Social and Health Education is accorded the status of a core subjects, alongside the academic subjects. We aim to ensure that safety and risk is key to the learning opportunities.
Learning Environments
Learning is promoted through well organised classrooms and learning environments across the resource base which allow children to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills. The environment and routines support children to develop through independent or supported engagement and enquiry, utilising the best use of space and a range of learning resources and strategies.
Classroom environments are created to support a range of needs and strengths within the class. This allows for children in a range of classes to have the resources available to support their interests’ motivations and next steps in their learning. All of the environments are communication friendly and support communication for children with a range of needs. The environment is intended to create a warm and celebratory space for the children.
Children go on a range of educational visits appropriate to the class or individual learning that is taking place.