Personalisation in Education: The Orchard Hill College Model

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Personalisation in Education The Orchard Hill
College Model
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n Vines
OHC provides an empowering and positive
environment which enables individuals to aspire,
learn and achieve within a self determined and
meaningful curriculum.
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The Student Group

• Learners with severe/profound and multiple
  learning difficulties and/or disabilities
• Learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
• Learners with Challenging Behaviour
• Learners who have additional sensory impairments
  (visual/hearing)
• Learners with additional mental health needs
  (dual diagnosis)

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A Brief History

• Queen Marys Hospital for Children population
  of young people reaching adulthood with learning
  disabilities
• Creation of Orchard Hill
• FE Centre started in 1983
• Received College status in early 1990s
• Full-time places for school leavers approved and
  funded by FEFC (now LSC)
• Relocated to Old Town Hall Wallington in 2004

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Core Principals

• Provides a non-residential educational service,
  which offers equality of opportunity and respect
  to all students and staff.
• Provides real life learning opportunities within
  a framework which is flexible, safe and
  responsive to individual needs.
• Aims at all times to build quality relationships
  and interactions which respect an individuals
  potential to learn.
• Enables and empowers learners to identify and
  work towards their personal aspirations.

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Curriculum Provision

• Full time
• Three-Year Building Skills for Independence
  Course
• Post-16 Course
• Part time
• Skills for Access
• Vocational Progression

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Curriculum Framework

• Individual learning programmes
• Created with each individual learner using person
  centred approaches, including
• personal tutorials,
• student planning meetings
• flexible curriculum framework
• Learning process mapped out in the learners
  individual learning plan (ILP), using long term
  aims and termly objectives to chart learners
  progress.
• The College Curriculum Framework complements the
  national Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework which
  covers communication, literacy and numeracy.

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Curriculum Framework

• Foundation Skills
• Literacy and Communication
• Numeracy
• ICT
• Gross Motor
• Fine Motor
• Awareness of Self and Others
• Choice Making
• Interaction with Others
• (Note these Elements will be common across all
  learning)

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Curriculum Framework

• Personal, Social, Health Emotional
  Development
• Cultural Studies
• Drama
• Movement and Dance
• Music
• Art Design
• Citizenship
• Building Relationships
• Assertiveness and Self-advocacy
• Health

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Curriculum Framework

• Practical Living
• Science
• Food Preparation
• Household Skills
• Health and Safety at Home
• Accessing the Community
• Travel Training

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Curriculum Framework

• Living and Work
• Sports and Fitness
• Work Related Learning
• Work Based Learning
• Leisure Related Learning
• Leisure Based Learning
• Environmental Awareness in Work and Leisure
• Travel Training

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Additional Specialist Provision

• Physiotherapy
• Nursing
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Music Therapy
• Hydrotherapy
• Visual and Hearing Assessments

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Campus Structure

• Wallington
• - Old Town Hall
• - St Michaels Church
• - Trinity Church
• - Baptist Church
• - URC
• - Cromwell House (offices)

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Campus Structure

• Lambeth
• - Redfearn Centre, Vauxhall
• - Landmark Centre, Tulse Hill

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Campus Structure

• The Benefits
• Proximity of location
• Tailoring of venue
• Improved community interaction
• Vocational opportunities
• Increased numbers

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Other Community Links

• Library and library café
• Coffee morning (Methodist Church)
• Parks department
• SCOLA
• Ecology Centre
• Westcroft Leisure Centre and other gyms
• Regisrtry Office (w/e)
• High Street shops (e.g. Peacocks)

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The Future

• ASD/VPU - joint development with Carshalton
  College
• Enhanced satellite venues in Wallington - BedZED
• Vocational opportunities shop
• Other community projects
• Centre of Excellence

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Future Funding Issues

• Machinery of Government Changes
• Replacement of DfES by DCSF and DIUS
• Replacement of LSC by YPLA and SFA
• Growth of Direct Payments?

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My Details

• Simon Vines
• Vice Principal
  Orchard Hill College
  Old Town Hall
  Wallington SM6 0NB
• Tel [phone]
• email svines_at_suttonlea.org