Curriculum Review 2024

The school has   renamed  its departments and has organised them from key stages into Progression Groups. These are named  Explorers,  Adventurers, Navigators and Pathfinders. Please contact the suitable TLR for support if it is needed. 

At Ysgol Ty Coch we provide a broad, appropriate and stimulating curriculum, which includes the  Curriculum for Wales – challenging each child to reach his/her own individual potential.  Pupils in the school have full access to this curriculum.  In order for them to access this successfully, we work with each child in accordance with their own individual stage of development to help them to communicate their wants, needs and thoughts.  We use a number of strategies, including: PECS, Signalong, AAC (Alternative Augmentative Communication) and TEACCH, and Attention Autism. 

Pupil voice is of the upmost importance in the provision and, indeed, across the school, and a number of assessments for learning strategies have been developed and adapted to suit the needs of our pupils, ensuring that all are given the opportunity to make choices and evaluate their own performance as is appropriate. 

The Buarth y Capel site is  the provision for pupils aged 14-19 with Autistic Spectrum Disorde (ASD). Both sites work closely together, with a "one school" ethos. Some staff members teach across both sites and learning utilises both sites, e.g. Post 16, visiting BYC for circuits , or to use the grounds for forest schools or Duke of Edinburgh. Other pupils from BYC may access option subjects such as Duke of Edinburgh at the Tonteg site or visit the site for special events.