Admissions
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Wickselm House Learning Centre exists to support children who are currently not attending full-time in a mainstream or specialist school environment. We work closely with parents and carers, schools, local authorities, childcare and healthcare professionals to provide an alternative, part-time learning journey. Our aim is to support children and equip them with the resources to reengage in full-time education and vocational training once they are ready. We also support children who are flexi-schooling to provide much needed respite from a full-time school placement.
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Pupils are admitted to Wickselm House following a request from a Local Authority or school where a child has an Education and Health Care Plan in place. All children are offered a gradual transition and supported to begin their time at Wickselm House in the most positive way.
We nurture and guide the children we work with to be the best they can be and to support them to become happy, enriched learners ready to reintegrate and in t make valued contributions to our shared society.
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A child who struggles with fulltime, mainstream education
A local authority requests to place a young person at Wickselm House as part of a therapeutic intervention "exceptional provision' while an appropriate full-time setting is worked towards.
A young person's school would like to support flexi-schooling with two days each week at Wickselm house and three in school.
Child is not currently attending mainstream education and has an EHCP in place which will allow an application for funding under EOTISC.
Before Wickselm staff support a funding application, parents and carers will be offered detailed consultation to get a full picture of their child's needs and academic history. Where children are flexi-schooling we will liaise closely with key school staff during this process including meeting all due-diligence requirements..
Once a contract and funding has been put in place, parents or carers and children will visit Wickselm House for a series of settling-in sessions, including a relaxed one-to-one with the child's key teacher and our SENCO Learning Lead. These sessions will include time with the animals and great outdoors and an opportunity to explore the setting while it is quiet 'out of hours'.
During each child's journey with Wickselm House we will collaborate with local schools and FE institutions to share our ethos and practical approach to working in a trauma-informed way. We will invite education and childcare professionals to meet the children, animals and staff to learn how we work.
Through our professionals' support hub we will share ideas with local school staff and facilitate training to spread effective practice throughout Gloucestershire, and create strong links to successfully support our children back into full-time education and vocational training at the end of their time with us.