38 Date updated: 25.08.2023 next review: 24.09.2024 This enables us to capture the journey towards a deeper level of understanding and safety, where skills become secure and embedded across real life experiences. In summary, the array of approaches used within the Evidence for Learning app allows us to celebrate, capture and measure the impact of our implementation. Individual Education Plans (IEPs) We firmly believe that pupils at Overley Hall School can make enhanced progress if we directly address difficulties each young person may have as a result of their autism, learning difficulty and/or other diagnoses. By doing this we aim to improve their ability to access the curriculum, their ability to attend activities and to develop healthier engagement; all of which, we believe, lead to developing a deeper understanding of knowledge and skills. We can boost the quality and depth of young people’s understanding by addressing specific areas of difficulty the young person has, linked to the ‘Broad Areas of Need’. By setting effective long term targets to the Broad Areas of Need and breaking these down further into smaller realistic and achievable targets, we can create a plan. This plan is known as the Individual Education Plan (IEP). Strategies for success are clearly outlined in the plan, which supports and guides the staff towards achievement. We strongly endorse individualised learning, which is tailored to outcomes through the IEP, and believe this directly prepares learners for the next stages of their lives, by directly or indirectly enabling them to benefit from the rest of the curriculum offer. The IEP creates an opportunity for education staff, therapists, carers and parents to work together, by applying the strategies to improve educational results for children with disabilities. We believe this to be the foundation of a quality education for each young person with a disability. We therefore use the Broad Areas of Need, not only to plan the curriculum (see below, where these can be seen in the blue bubbles), but also to strategically plan for individualised progress through the IEP. This is directly linked to their disability or condition.
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