Hospital and Outreach Education (HOE) is an Alternative Provision Academy and is part of The Skylark Partnership Trust. HOE provides educational support for children and young people with complex medical and/or mental health needs which prevent them from attending school full time.
There are teaching provisions at the general hospitals in Kettering and Northampton and at The Sett and The Burrows (Tier 4 CAMHS Units) in Northampton. We work with pupils who are resident in North or West Northamptonshire through our Delapre Learning Centre in Northampton (Y11 and 12) and in pupils’ homes, community locations and Stanwick Lakes via our Bridge Reintegration programme (pupils below Y11).
The HOE team is led by James Shryane and is made up of highly qualified teachers and support staff. All staff are appropriately trained and employ a broad range of skills and engagement techniques to help children and young people recognise and celebrate their strengths, overcome their difficulties, cope with their medical/mental health conditions, and re-engage with life-long learning.
We also work very closely with multi-agency colleagues from health, CAMHS, social care and other teams within North and West Northamptonshire Local Authorities.
Pupils educated through HOE range in age from 5 to 18 years and may be from across the whole ability range. Pupils are dual registered with their home schools.
Support can take the form of:
- Direct teaching from a qualified teacher or a Higher Level Teaching Assistant, supervised by a teacher. This may take place:
- In one of our bases
- In the home
- In the child’s school
- In a community location such as a library
- In our classroom at Stanwick Lakes
- Remote teaching
- Direct reintegration support
- Use of an AV1 telepresence robot that gives remote access to school
- Telephone advice to the child’s school
- Safeguarding visits to the home
All pupils receive a personalised education programme, and have an individual learning plan to support their learning and medical/mental health needs. Reviews are held with parents/carers and pupils, home school staff and multi-professional colleagues every 6 weeks to review the learning plan and plan ahead.
Admission arrangements
Our admissions arrangements can be found in our Admissions Policy which can be found here.
Performance tables
Pupil Referral Unit performance tables are not the same as schools and the national data sets only show results for pupils who were singly registered at an Alternative Provision: 95% of our pupils are dual registered, so this is not an accurate method of benchmarking for our settings.
Our Curriculum Intent
All pupils have access to a personalised curriculum that caters for their particular health needs, their age, stage, and SEND needs, regardless of where they access their education within HOE. Their education is planned to maximise their learning whilst preparing them for the next stage in their educational journey, including reintegration to their home school. Planning takes account of the critical need to re-ignite the love of learning so they can gain the knowledge, experience and skills needed to be successful in their adult lives. We believe that Personal, social and emotional progress is as important as academic progress as without developing their confidence and self esteem, they will not be successful learners. Provision is designed specifically to support those too unwell to access mainstream or special educational settings.
The curriculum is designed to provide access to a range of academic subjects. In addition within the personal development and activities curriculum we offer qualification focussed exit points. In the IT curriculum we offer access to the Bronze, Silver and Gold iDEA certification scheme. In Food Technology we offer L2 NCFE qualification. Students can gain AQA Unit Awards in a range of subjects and areas of interest as accreditation for small chunks of learning. We also deliver Arts Awards certification.
Our Values
Hospital and Outreach Education have a set core values which have been devised from discussions with pupils, with staff and other stakeholders. We ask our staff, local advisory board members, management committee, pupils, parents/carers and other visitors to adhere to these core values when working with us. Our core values are Resilience, respect, compassion. co-operation, hope, honesty and trust.
Please visit Our Mission, Vision and Values page for more information.
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