• Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities
• Residential and day places
• Courses start September
• 38 weeks per year
• 60+ students
• Age 16 – 25

General Description of College:
Hinwick Hall College is part of the Education Directorate of Livability (the operating name of the merged charity Grooms-Shaftesbury). It is set in its own grounds on the Northamptonshire / Bedfordshire border where it offers education and care for up to 60 residential and day students.

The Curriculum:
We specialise in working with young people with a range of disabilities and associated learning, communication and emotional difficulties. Our teaching reflects this, catering to many different learning styles. The whole college is built around the concept of waking hour learning.

We offer three learning pathways, each tailored to different student need.
Pathway one students demonstrate an ability to either direct their learning or practically apply their skills in a variety of settings.
Pathway two students focus on the development of practical skills and learn through doing.
Pathway three students primarily focus on developing their emerging communication skills, and this underpins all elements of their curriculum.

Specialist Facilities:
We have qualified Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy staff on site. Our purpose-built physiotherapy department includes a pool where trained staff provide aquatic therapy. We employ our own full-time nursing staff.

Statements:

1. expertise in meeting the needs of students with severe learning difficulties
2. expertise in meeting the needs of students with profound and multiple learning difficulties
3. expertise in working with learners with communication difficulties
4. in-house speech and language therapy
5. in-house physiotherapy
6. specialist staff to meet personal care requirements
7. opportunities to improve communication skills such as the use of Makaton, Bliss, symbols or objects of reference
8. opportunities to take part in a wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities
9. opportunities to learn in small steps
10. opportunities to develop strategies to minimise incidence of inappropriate behaviour
11. opportunities to improve literacy, numeracy and communication skills
12. opportunities to attend local mainstream colleges with support
13. a programme to help learners to look after themselves more independently
14. opportunities for learners participate in community activities and to learn about citizenship
15. a range of vocational courses with opportunities for accreditation.
16. opportunities to take Pre-Entry and Entry awards
17. registered care home status
18. nursing services available 24 hours a day
19. residential provision linked to the academic year
20. day provision

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