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Watermelon Independent School aims to provide an outstanding, and highly personalised, educational experience for children and young people with high levels of anxiety associated with autism spectrum disorder and/or early trauma, enabling them to overcome barriers to learning and achieve academic and personal success.
Through specialist teaching, well-planned interventions and a range of therapeutic support, we aim to meet the needs of the most vulnerable young people and start the journey to transforming their futures.
We believe in providing quality experiences, both within lessons and through opportunities to develop cultural capital, and the curriculum has been developed with our Behaviour for Learning approach its core, specifically developed to encourage resilience and work ethic.
All pupils access a core curriculum which is appropriate to developing their understanding from our baseline assessments. The Core Curriculum subjects are English, Maths, Science, Computing, PSHE and SRE.
Our broader curriculum includes the delivery of lessons such as History, Geography, the Arts, Food Technology, D&T, Physical Education and languages.
We are currently accredited with the following courses
