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Life Skill Interventions

In addition to our therapy offer, Life Skills Manor School provide intervention approaches and sessions as delivered by the Teaching Team, Life Skills Teacher and a Teaching Assistant. These interventions support pupil's with learning a new skill, emotional and social development. Progress is tracked through EHCP provision plans and portfolios.

School Interventions
School Interventions
School Interventions
School Interventions
School Interventions
School Interventions

The Wheel of Independence Framework™

The Wheel of Independence

What is the Wheel of Independence™?

The Wheel of Independence™ Framework has been designed to help develop, track progress and measure outcomes of life skills in children and young people with Special Educational Needs who have the potential to live an independent or semi-independent life.

The focus is based on eight comprehensive life skill areas related to participation in activities of daily living at home, school/college and in the community. These 8 areas include:

  • Meal Preparation
  • Time Management
  • Leisure
  • Self Care
  • Housekeeping
  • Laundry
  • Food Shopping
  • Money Skills

The Benefits of the Wheel of Independence™

  • Building self esteem
  • Increasing confidence in areas that students may have struggled in previously
  • Developing core life skills
  • Fine and gross motor skill development
  • Adaptive and specialist equipment can be provided if required
Students - The Wheel of Independence
Students - The Wheel of Independence
Students - The Wheel of Independence
Students - The Wheel of Independence
Students - The Wheel of Independence
Students - The Wheel of Independence

How It Works

Stage one comprises of the foundation skills required to progress in each area. Every stage gets progressively harder and the tasks involved more advanced.

The online tool allows us as a school to:

  • Have individual profiles for each student
  • Follow a skill hierarchy to assist students to progress with their independence
  • Track student progress in each area with current and past comments
  • Produce a visual graph and score to demonstrate progress across each year
  • Produce target sheets to share with parents and other professionals
  • Produce reports to demonstrate progress across cohorts
Example of visual to show progress each year

Therapy Team

The Wheel of Independence framework™ is embedded within the whole school that all staff have basic training in.

1:1 and small group interventions are carried out by the therapy team who will see all our students in some capacity covering these topics throughout the academic year.

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Farrah Money

Occupational Therapist

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Lucy Gaughran

Therapy Assistant

Whole School Interventions

The Daily Mile

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Typesy Programme

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Cooking Sessions

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Roller-Skating Sessions

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Allotment and DIY

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Model Making Sessions

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Group Interventions

Travel Training Sessions

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Shopping Intervention

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Lego Therapy

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Boxing Intervention

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Horse Riding Lessons

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Social Club Sessions

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Direct 1:1 Interventions

Music Lessons

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1:1 Literacy Interventions

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Pupils will also have the opportunity to develop daily living skills by participating in 1:1 and group sessions in the therapy house. Life lessons include:

  • Using a washing machine
  • Ironing
  • Cooking a meal and laying a table
  • Making a bed
  • Gardening skills
  • Animal care