The Vista Campus

The Vista Campus Leadership

About The Vista Campus

The Vista Campus provides the following education

• The Vista Campus
• The Hospital Tuition Service
• The Horizon Service

Vista Main Campus

All students attending The Vista Campus have diagnosed, very high levels of anxiety/mental health needs, preventing them from accessing mainstream education. Students are taught in small groups, enabling them to grow in confidence and emotional resilience. Social and emotional skills are taught alongside a broad and balanced curriculum. The main building is a single-storey with wheelchair access. Option subjects are offered at KS4 that cater for a variety of interests and needs.

Students on roll at The Vista Campus receive a broad, balanced, and engaging curriculum that enables them to re-engage with their learning, whilst offering a range of optional subjects tailored to individual strengths and interests. Students are actively encouraged to pursue their learning, building resilience, and focussing on aspirational yet realistic targets.

Students are taught by highly skilled practitioners who adapt their practice where needed, and are thereby able to meet the needs of all students through targeted, differentiated support.

Activities are carefully planned to build on previous learning, supporting students to retain and then apply their knowledge in future and possibly unfamiliar learning activities.

Learning is carefully checked and monitored, with regular opportunities for feedback, both inside and outside lessons.

Opportunities for reading are carefully interwoven into lessons, focussing on improving the confidence and enjoyment of reading of all students.

Years 7 & 8

Years 9 – 11

Interventions

• Students are able to access ‘Speaking Space’ to provide support for social skills, speech, language and communication development.
• All students are able to access a Nurture Room and a Sensory Room, if needed.
• Selected students will be able to access 1:1 Reading Interventions outside the classroom as well Lego therapy.
• Year 11 students are able to access careers guidance via a PCC Careers and Progression Guidance Adviser.
• Off-site trips complement the curriculum offer and give opportunities for students to practise social interactions in the community.

Entry Process

• Students are referred to The Vista Campus by their mainstream school through the Local Authority ISP- FAP- DR panel.
• Students with an EHCP are also referred via the Annual Review process and the SEND Team.
• Evidence of diagnosed very high levels of anxiety/mental health need is needed for a place to be considered.
• All students on arrival will complete a robust induction process, which will include the creation of an Individual Learning Plan. This will be reviewed termly with parents, the mainstream school and any other assigned professionals.
• Students are either single registered with THS or dual registered with their mainstream school.

Reintegration Criteria

• The criteria that will be used to determine when a student is ready to reintegrate back to a mainstream school would be:
  • Good (improving) overall attendance
  • Meeting ILP targets evidencing a readiness to reintegrate
  • Agreement of all parties (including the student) at an ILP meeting that this is the right pathway
  • Agreement of all parties (including the student) at an EHCP annual review that this is the right pathway
• The criterion that will be used to determine when a student would need to reintegrate to a different specialist provision would be:
  • Agreement of all parties (including the student) at an EHCP annual review that this is the right pathway
• All students in Year 11 will be supported to reintegrate to an appropriate post-16 provision

Hospital Tuition Service Leadership

About The Hospital Tuition Service

The Hospital Tuition Service aims to support children and young people, their families and mainstream schools across the city and region to access education and support their attendance, whilst admitted as patients to the paediatric department of Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.

Under the profile of need, the care given by the expert medical team to support children and young peoples’ health needs is the primary need at this time, however, each morning, for those who are well enough, patients aged from Year R to Year 11 can receive a bedside visit from the hospital teacher based at The Vista campus.

In addition, there is a dedicated study space (the Learning Nook) off the ward, with a desk, which is suitable for a secondary aged students to work at quietly away from their bedside (if the bay is busy or noisy), either independently or with the support of the teacher.

The Hospital Tuition Service enables all of QA’s paediatric patients to engage with some core skill education in English and maths, stay curious about learning and enjoy a distraction from the day-to-day challenges of being very unwell.

This service is available 9:30am to 12pm, Monday to Friday, in term time.

Assessment for learning tasks in maths or English, linked to student’s National Curriculum age related expectations, are offered as a starting place to new patients seen on the wards. From this point further, National Curriculum age related work in maths or English is offered daily to short stay patients, with mainstream schools of longer stay patients contacted to plan a personalised curriculum offer, in conjunction with the student’s regular teacher/staff team.

All core learning from the Hospital Tuition Service is complemented by the therapeutic creative tasks the onsite Queen Alexandra team of play specialists* supply, to provide a rounded curriculum offer on both wards.

*QA play specialists are employed by the Hospital trust and are not staffed by THS/Hospital Tuition Service