Key Drivers | Percy Hedley School

At Percy Hedley we have three Key Drivers:

Communication
Wellbeing
Functionality and Independence

By optimizing Communication, we empower children to have a voice, express their thoughts, desires and wishes and be heard. We believe that communication is vital for thought, enables literacy, which in turn unlocks access to all other subject areas.

By optimizing Wellbeing, we enable children to live healthier lives, make sensible choices and enhance their physical and mental health, leading to lower demand for medical services. Wellbeing underpins quality of life and engagement, leading to improved attendance, attitudes to learning, progress and less time lost from learning opportunities. Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) forms part of our focus on wellbeing (PHS Sex and Relationship Policy)

Finally, we believe that learning must be purposeful and pupils should be enabled to apply their learning in functional, ‘real world’ contexts wherever possible. Functionality and Independence stresses that depth of learning and teaching for understanding are critically important and this leads to pupils who are able to apply their knowledge across different contexts and time. This together with life skills and personal independence are critical to adult life.

Please click the link below to see the approaches we use to embed these drivers across all we do, and how they are interlinked.

Key Drivers

Each class completes a range of activities and sessions aimed at developing pupil progress within the key driver areas. Click on the links below to see how this is done in each department.

Early years

Wellbeing

Communication

Functionality and Independence

Speech and Language KS1/2

Functionality and Independence

Communication

Wellbeing

KS3 Speech and Language

Functionality and Independence

Wellbeing

Communication