TITLE OF DEVELOPING PRACTICE EXAMPLE
Braes High School is fully comprehensive teaching S1 to S6 with a current roll of approximately 1,000 pupils. As part of our self-evaluation on How Good Is Our School? Quality Indicator: 1.3 Leadership of change, we explored resources and approaches which would support learners who would benefit from a flexible, adaptive learning environment.
We created our new autism and dyslexia-friendly classroom which is a space for young people to successfully engage in learning when the mainstream environment is overwhelming. The Shore also houses our alternative to exclusion programme and is a hub of expertise for staff from across the school to learn about inclusive strategies that can be taken into their classrooms from nurture principles to dyslexia-friendly texts and beyond.
We consulted our staff and pupils to ensure that The Shore is a calming flexible space which meets their needs. It supports our pupils who have additional support needs and our staff who are supporting them in classrooms.
The Shore is designed by pupils for pupils. It offers: