Our
Approach
The Spaghetti Bridge Enterprise Learning approach meets our students where they are and challenges them to reimagine their potential to learn and thrive within an education setting and beyond
Our Approach
The Spaghetti Bridge Enterprise Learning approach meets our students where they are and challenges them to reimagine their potential to learn and thrive within an education setting and beyond
A NEW APPROACH TO EDUCATION
As opposed to a framework that requires students to adapt to the needs of the curriculum, the Spaghetti Bridge Enterprise Learning curriculum creates pathways that begin with student interests and then challenge them to have new experiences, expand their knowledge and skill set and achieve their true potential.
We call our approach “Enterprise Learning”, which captures the sense of discovery, excitement and curiosity that is lacking in many approaches to education today.
YOUR CHILD’S JOURNEY
ENTERPRISE LEARNING EXPLAINED
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THE WAY WE TEACH
Enterprise Learning is the vehicle through which exploration and learning takes place. By combining our Relational Approach and Enterprise Projects, students are exposed to a broad and balanced curriculum over 9 Pillars. By incorporating the passions and interests of the young people, staff within our schools devise a curriculum that allows students to feel engaged and part of the learning, with a context and reason for the sessions in which they take part. Enterprise Learning allows teachers to use a range of applications and approaches to support and engage their students, many of whom have found accessing school and learning difficult in the past.
Our Relational Approach allows us to adapt to each student’s programme to their current level of need and sequence all future learning. The Relational Approach works through our Three Phases to ensure that student’s curriculum is individualised and ambitious and that they are supported and challenged at the appropriate level. Students are encouraged to develop their sense of trust, feelings of belonging, and the ability to be and feel safe to access learning. The Relational Approach is part of everything we do at Spaghetti Bridge.
Enterprise Learning Projects are the mechanism by which a broad and balanced curriculum is achieved, and utilises the passions and interests of our young people and staff. The curriculum allows students to feel engaged and part of their learning, with a context and reason for the sessions in which they take part. Projects teach holistically across our 9 pillars by interweaving learning through tasks divided and planned to answer a driving question. This question is either based on a real-world scenario, or around specific skills or training. The answer to the driving question is presented through ‘Beautiful Work’; a high-quality well-articulated product that demonstrates the learning that has taken place.
EXPLORE SPACE
The intent of the Explore space is to enable students to connect and relate with the school, overcome barriers using our Relational Approach and begin to access a broad and balanced curriculum. Learning is planned and sequenced through our pillars and delivered through our Enterprise Learning projects.
HORIZON SPACE
The intent of the Horizon space is to support students to access a rich curriculum that creates new knowledge experiences that helps them to begin to specialise skills based on their interests and new next steps and destinations. Students within Horizon continue to work on Enterprise Projects with our Practitioners and access subject specific sessions both which support the achievement of qualifications.
HOW WE ASSESS STUDENTS THROUGH THE CURRICULUM
THE 3 STAGES
Our curriculum is structured by the Three Phase Process, which
allows us to adapt each student’s programme to their current
level of need and sequence pathways to future learning.
OVERCOMING
BARRIERS
In Overcoming Barriers, students build relationships with staff and peers, establish a sense of belonging and connection with their school community, and begin to reimagine their potential to learn.
21ST CENTURY
SKILLS
In 21st Century Skills, students build upon their foundation and are further challenged to have new experiences through a broadening and deepening of their curriuclum.
COMMUNITY
READY
In Community Ready, students explore how their interests, aspirations, and learning connect to the next step in their journey, including embarking on their pathway to continuing education, employment, independent living and community connection.
WHAT WE TEACH
THE CURRICULUM - OUR 9 PILLARS
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Our Enterprise Learning curriculum provides students with the experiences that allow them to build a rich and deep knowledge of the world, including vocabulary, factual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge
Through our Relational Approach and Enterprise Projects, students learn the skills that enable them to apply knowledge to real-world situations, creating new and rich understandings of how the world works and preparing them for the world of the future
EHCP outcomes are woven throughout each student’s curriculum, enabling them to overcome their barriers to learning, establish strong and responsible relationships, keep themselves safe, and be healthy and well.
The real-world nature of the Enterprise Learning approach, including work with industry experts, community trips, experience of work environments and practical activities with meaningful outcomes, results in Spaghetti Bridge students being prepared for adulthood throughout their journey. In addition, post-14 students are enrolled in a Pathways to Adulthood curriculum, which supports them to make choices about their post-school life in continuing educaiton, employability, and independent living.
Spaghetti Bridges pathway to achieving accredited learning blends practical, project-based learning with accredited qualifications. Our spiral curriculum allows students to revisit and deepen their understanding of core concepts over time which helps students build confidence, resilience, and employability skills while working towards recognized qualifications.
At Spaghetti Bridge we support students to obtain qualifications which will support them in the next steps of learning or in life. Qualifications offered include but are not limited to a range of GCSEs, Functional Skills and NCfEs in Occupational Studies, Business and Enterprise and Developing Enterprise Skills.