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The Adventurers and Navigators

The Adventurers and Navigators Departments

Aims

To promote the child’s language literacy and communication skills, Welsh and multi lingualism through Language, Literacy and Communication but also through all the AOLE’s as a cross curricular responsibility

To promote the child’s mathematical development and their problem-solving skills through Maths and Numeracy but also through all the AOLE’s as a cross curricular responsibility

To promote the child’s scientific and investigative skills through Science and Technology with digital skills through all the AOLE’s as a cross curricular responsibility

To promote enquiry skills, religious and cultural development through Humanities

To promote the child’s creative development such as creative skills, skills such as artistic skills including performing and designing through Expressive Arts

To promote the child’s physical development through Health and Wellbeing and Physical Literacy

To promote the child’s personal and social development through Health and Wellbeing

To provide a caring, stimulating environment where each child can explore, learn and develop their existing skills.

Main objectives

To provide pupils with a calm, friendly, caring environment taking into account their specific individual needs

To enable children to communicate effectively, using augmentative forms of communication as appropriate.

To develop pupils communication, literacy, numerical and digital skills so that they can apply their knowledge to a range of situations

To work closely with other agencies in order to provide a multi- disciplinary approach.

To develop children’s language and reasoning skills

To encourage learning through direct experiences and problem solving.

To provide opportunities for children to direct their own learning and make choices

To develop children’s understanding of symbolic representation, reading and writing.

To encourage children’s creativity and exploration.

To promote empathy, respect and understanding of different choices and different points of view

To understand about their own bodies and how to keep themselves safe

To develop each individual child’s self – esteem, confidence and sense of achievement.
To promote the language and culture of Wales, Cynefin, opportunities to learn and experience aspects of multi linguilism, and promoting other cultures.

To enable children to cope with fears, anxieties and difficult experiences with staff understanding Trauma Informed approaches.

To develop good home/school links with parents and carers.