WA

The Learning Enrichment [LE] programme exists at Warwick Academy to help all pupils achieve their learning potential. The term LE is a key element as it outlines the positive intention of the programme i.e. to assist pupils to overcome their particular area in need of enrichment to achieve academically and socially.

There are a number of reasons for doing so
1.We need to acknowledge that the diagnosis of a specific learning difficulty is a complicated and inexact process. Some of our students have a less conventional learning style even though their intellectual functioning is at a very high level. LE helps all those with different learning profiles whether they be typically dyslexic, dysphraxic, AD(H)D or merely unconventional.

2.The concept of learning enrichment stresses the notion of support available for all pupils whenever necessary. This may be short-term as a result of absence or difficulty with a particular subject, or long-term for those with less conventional learning styles.

3.To preserve a pupil’s self-esteem by not simply responding to a specific learning difficulty in terms of remedy but enhancement. Teachers’ expectations and a pupils’ own self-confidence are very important aspects of the learning process and concentrating on the positive aspect attempts to preserve this. Understanding that a typical profile, which needs to be made specific in order to inform the teaching process, is by far the best way of supporting such needs as opposed to labelling a child as having a learning difficulty throughout their career.

4.LE enables teachers to respond to each pupil as an individual by differentiating their teaching for different learning styles. Part of the process is teacher awareness and teacher training

5.To encompass the needs of outstandingly gifted and talented pupils.

We drive this Learning Enrichment programme using a collaborative approach between parents, the school and the student. Each identified student will have an Individualised Learning Profile (ILP) which will direct teaching and learning in the classroom and pastoral care. We believe that these modifications are best pushed back into the classroom and use withdrawal from class in a limited capacity and only with the Principal's permission.

For more information please contact your son/daughter’s Head of Year or Mr Horan, Deputy Principal: Curriculum