Staff across the campuses identify and support students that need additional help, allowing them to close attainment gaps and reach their full potential. Interventions are carefully planned to support student’s independent learning skills and improve their access, participation and achievement in the classroom and in the wider community.
How are students targeted for intervention?
Progress data is used to identify students who will benefit from academic interventions. Therapeutic and welfare interventions address the emotional and social well-being of students. There are a range of interventions that will encompass all levels of need.
Talkabout
Talkabout is a structured programme for teaching and assessing social skills. It is a whole scheme of work which helps you assess, teach and easily measure student’s progress. It uses a hierarchical method of teaching social skills which means that having assessed the child using the Talkabout assessment, teachers will choose the appropriate level or book to start work at. This means that you may start by developing a child’s self-awareness and self-esteem before progressing onto body language. You will then move onto conversation skills and then onto friendship skills and assertiveness.
ELSA
An Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) is a trained member of staff who provides emotional and social support to students within a school setting. At The Harbour School we have a trained ELSA at each campus who will work with individuals or a small group of students to help develop their emotional literacy skills, build resilience, and manage their feelings effectively, ultimately enhancing their overall well-being and ability to engage with learning.
Lexonik Advance
A unique, research-based literacy intervention programme, leveraging metacognition, repetition, decoding and automaticity.
Lexonik Advance trains learners to develop phonological awareness and make links between unknown words using common prefix, stems and suffix definitions. Lexonik supports students to develop their reading skills through a structured, 1-1 intervention.
Lexonik LEAP
Lexonik LEAP will rapidly progress reading, spelling and oracy skills through a highly structured 1-1 intervention. The programme is ideal for students who find literacy particularly challenging and those for whom English is not their first language (EAL).
Based on an initial diagnostic assessment, the programme is adapted to allow for an individualised learning pathway, meaning the duration of the programme is dictated by the student’s level of need.
Lego Therapy
LEGO-Based Therapy is a social development program that uses LEGO activities to support the development of a wide range of social skills within a group setting.
Each child takes on one of four specific roles to do this:
The Engineer. The Supplier. The Builder. The Foreman
Using this format provides each student with an opportunity to practice and develop a wide range of skills, including language skills (in both giving and receiving instructions), turn-taking, negotiating, sharing and collaborative social problem-solving. It also encourages children to reflect on their own actions and skills as well as give constructive feedback to their peers.