Who We Are
The Willow Centre is Tier 4 of the DSPL2 Stevenage Behaviour Service. We are a short-term provision for primary school aged children who are at risk of permanent exclusion from their mainstream school.
Children who attend The Willow Centre will receive bespoke therapeutic packages of support. These are designed to help children begin to develop many of the skills they would need to be successful in their mainstream school.
We also provide short-term educational support for children who have been permanently excluded from their mainstream school.
Children who access Tier 4 at The Willow Centre will have already received support from Tier 3 Outreach. For further information on the DSPL2 Behaviour Service, click here.
Our Aims
We aim for the children at The Willow Centre to:
- Develop the language of feelings and emotions
- Identify their own emotions
- Express their emotions in a safe and appropriate way
- Be able to self-regulate
- Recognise the emotions others are feeling and react in an appropriate way
- Rediscover their love of learning and curiosity
- Re-experience positive learning experiences
Our Provision
At The Willow Centre, our primary goal is to enable children to develop the tools and strategies they will need to be successful in a mainstream setting. These ‘tools’ are varying and diverse and as such our curriculum must encompass the needs of our children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Needs. Our child- centred SEMH scheme of learning, which we run as a 16 week rolling programme, is based on our core values, understanding emotions and raising self-esteme.
Pastoral Interventions
Each child is offered a bespoke package of pastoral interventions to support their Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs. The Willow Centre team are trained in delivering a varity of interventions including:
- Drawing and Talking https://drawingandtalking.com/
- Biscuit and Beanbag
- Penn Resilience
- Protective Behaviours https://familiesfeelingsafe.co.uk/what-is-protective-behaviours/
- Homunculi
- My Time
- My World and Me
- Brick Club
Academic Interventions
Working with each child’s mainstream school, we identify gaps in prior learning and provide academic inteventions to consolidate knowledge and skills.
The following programmes are used to support children in their academic development:
- Times Tables Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/
- Monster Phonics https://monsterphonics.com/
- Bug Club https://www.pearson.com/international-schools/british-curriculum/primary-curriculum/bug-club-family.html
- Magic Spells SpLD intervention
- White Rose Maths https://whiterosemaths.com/
The Willow Centre
Meet the Team
Mrs T. Skeggs
Headteacher
Miss A. Giles
Provision Lead
Mrs E. Turner
Specialist Behaviour Teacher
Ms N. Gallagher
Behaviour Support Assistant
Mrs E. Green
Behaviour Support Assistant
Ms M. Chapman
Behaviour Support Assistant
Mrs L. Knight
Behaviour Support Assistant
policies
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Contact Us
01438 233900
The Willow Centre, Mobbsbury Way, Stevenage, SG2 0HL
We are a little tricky to find so below are some directions just incase:
If you know The Glebe well, we are situated by the small car park, just behind The Glebe shops. Alternatively, head for Chells Industrial Unit SG2 0LQ. Follow the road through the industrial unit, going past the back of Stevenage Cyles, until you reach the small car park. We are just by that car park. You will see a small building behind green school gates with a green sign for The Willow Centre.