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.
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:
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:
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.
Occupational Therapist
Therapy Assistant
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:
Social Club Sessions
Pupils will have the opportunity to attend a small group called ‘social club’ on Friday afternoons. Sessions focus on the pupils’ interests, such as playing chess, gardening, and arts/crafts.