Our Culture - The positive environment we create

Rosehill is a special place where everyone is valued and treated with dignity and respect. It is a place where we learn, care, enjoy and achieve success together. As a school, we are committed to and invest hugely in the mental health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff, and place great importance on promoting an inclusive culture and strong Learning Community.

We value and seek meaningful collaboration, which maximise opportunities to drive our schools’ vision and aims. Through our partnership working, we create a strong sense of community spirit, and promote awareness and understanding of Autism to further support our pupils to break down barriers, to excel and to lead fulfilling lives.

Our school motto is, ‘Caring about Learning, Learning about Caring’

Our Mission - What drives us every day

All children and young people are entitled to an education that enables them to make progress so that they achieve their best, become confident individuals living fulfilling lives and make a successful transition into adulthood. We realise that being supported towards greater independence and employability would be life transforming and at Rosehill this support starts early. With high aspirations, and the right support, we believe that all children and young people can go on to achieve successful long-term outcomes in adult life.

We work with families, local authorities, and other partners to enable our pupils to realise their ambition in relation to:

• Wellbeing - Being confident, happy and successful CYP who are proud of all their achievements

• Personal development - Developing strong characteristics which will enable them to apply their learning, preparing them to live life in modern Britain; Resilience, Motivation, Confidence, Responsibility and Independence
• Fulfilment - At Rosehill, education is delivered in a way that combines focus on the academic progress, specialist learning support (i.e. therapeutic), as well as development of essential life skills that enrich pupils’ lives and helps them to reach their true potential
• Staying safe and healthy - They are able to stay safe and healthy, socially, emotionally and physically and make good choices about their life and the future
• Communication - They achieve the highest level of communication and have choice, control and freedom over their lives and the support they need
• Independence – Being responsible citizens who contribute to the School and wider community

• Employability – Exploring, planning and enjoying meaningful pathways into adulthood

Our Vision - The impact we want to make

It is our vision to provide a specialist provision that enables every learner to achieve the best possible outcomes in learning, social and emotional wellbeing, in order to fulfil their true potential and participate fully in society.

Children, young people and their families will have a voice, be listened to, included and empowered, and have access to the right support, at the right time, from the right people.

Our Values - The targets that guide us in our learning, our work and our life at Rosehill School

Recognise our personal achievements and reach our potential

Overcome our barriers to learning

Succeed in our aspirations and be safe and healthy

Enjoy school, have fun and make good friendships

Help and care for others and be active citizens

Interact and communicate positively with others

Learn well today and every day and prepare well for our futures

Live fulfilling lives and look forward to tomorrow

Our Aims - What we strive to do

• Ensuring each pupil achieves the best outcomes regardless of individual starting points
• Delivering a broad, balanced and creative curriculum, giving our pupils the concepts, knowledge and skills to be confident, independent, resilient and safe
• Encouraging our pupils to strive to achieve their best
• Celebrating at every opportunity in the success of our pupils
• Inspiring pupils to be active members of the school and wider community
• Celebrating social and cultural diversity so that everyone feels valued and respected

• Creating a positive school culture and an inclusive learning environment, which helps our pupils to develop the highest possible personal standards of work, behaviour and engagement in learning

• Helping each learner to develop their knowledge of positive health and wellbeing practices and safeguarding so that they can make informed choices about their physical and emotional health
• Encouraging problem-solving and the ability to reason by delivering teaching and learning across a wide range of learning situations and within an enabling environment
• Equipping them with effective communication skills, promoting pupil voice and independence  

• Enriching pupils’ cultural capital, enabling them to discover new and exciting concepts, which promote pastime interests and develop their life skills
• Creating a collaborative culture and a strong sense of Learning as a community
• Providing high-quality CPD to equipment our staff with the knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality teaching and learning, to remove the additional barriers faced by the pupils and to provide them with a safe space to speak out

• Harnessing and encouraging the safe use of new technologies to enhance and extend learning

Implementation - In order achieve our mission, vision and aims we provide:

• A happy, caring, secure and enabling environment, modified to meet the varying needs of our pupils
• An atmosphere of friendliness, positivity and professionalism which promotes respect
• A highly organised and creative curriculum designed to be broad, balanced, coherent and interactive
• High-quality, creative planning and teaching, which is a strength of this school
• Holistic and personalised approaches of learning, tailored resources and therapeutic support
• Rich and varied life skills and enrichment opportunities, i.e. outdoors, which promote independence
• Effective pastoral support to promote pupils spiritual, cultural, social and moral development
• Meaningful health and wellbeing experiences for all in the school community
• Positive and effective partnerships with families, agencies and the wider community advocating support, interventions and transitions
• Committed, forward looking and energetic staff who work relentlessly to ensure all pupils receive the best education possible and the highest levels of safeguarding and care
• Leaders who have a strategic, long-term vision and commitment to creating a culture of continuous improvement and sustaining high standards achieved through; networking, training, CPD, Safeguarding, equal opportunities, research, school priorities and most importantly, individual pupil needs