School Mission
Education at Appletree Treatment Centre (ATC)
Our mission is to help support traumatised young children whose lives have been severely disrupted to grow socially and emotionally and learn to cope with school. We help them to return to families and day schools before they reach their teenage years.
In the schools at Appletree Treatment Centre we believe in leadership that promotes child-centred provision through high-quality teaching and learning and schools that are connected to their community.
Our Aims
We aim to help our children establish a secure safe base in the world, by helping them to:
- Provide a safe, warm and comfortable place to learn
- Gain a sense of belonging and feel valued for who they are
- Build healthy attachments with dependable adults
- Experience good, close, warm and safe friendships
Our children can use this secure base to explore the world confidently:
- Engage in the play, learning and social experiences, which they may have missed at an earlier age
- Engage in stimulating individualised education based on an appropriately modified National Curriculum
- Enjoy and achieve in a wide range of activities in school and in the local community
We aim to support them to:
- Build self-confidence, emotional competence and resilience
- Develop appropriate learning patterns and learn new skills
- Develop self-management skills and positive self-perception
To the ultimate goals of supporting them to:
- Become motivated, independent learners
- Gain a sense of social responsibility and moral values
- Understand their own culture and heritage, and learn to value that of others
Through education at ATC children will:
- Develop appropriate learning patterns
- Overcome difficulties and make up deficiencies, whilst following the National Curriculum
- Develop their potential and learn new skills
- Enjoy a broad and inspirational education experience
- Have ambitions for their future through education
Our aims for education at ATC will be met through:
- Effective leadership.
- Child-centred provision
- High-quality teaching and learning
- Schools that are connected to their community