Beverley Park is a collaborative project between mainstream and special school, drawing on the specialist expertise of staff from Beverley School for Autism and Park End Primary School. The setting aims to give pupils with SEND an accelerated boost to their education with access to specialist strategies and professionals who can help assess children’s needs, and build up their language, communication and interaction skills. The aim of the Outdoor Learning for Science Project is to encourage pupils to ask scientific questions about the area and resources around them.
This project offers an opportunity for children with autism to access a science curriculum that is stimulating, enquiry based and awe inspiring. This will help the students to understand how science impacts the life of each individual and apply this understanding into the real world.
The pupils have complex needs and are developmentally low in comparison to age related expectations. Therefore, the children learn best through child-led play where staff draw on pupils’ curiosity and attune with them through intensive interactions. As this is a new provision with limited budget, the CSI was approached for funding for resources to engage KS2 children in their science topics, in particular in their outdoor areas. Through these activities pupils should better develop well-rounded knowledge of the understanding of the world around them and how things work as well as an understanding of the natural world in which they live.
Project Impact: Expected early 2025
Website: www.parkendprimary.co.uk/beverley-park/
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