The Curriculum at Gibside School aims to: –
 Enable pupils to interact and communicate with a wide range of people
 Enable pupils to express preferences, communicate needs, make choices, make decisions and choose options that other people act on and respect.
 Promote self-advocacy or the use of a range of systems of supported advocacy.
 Prepare pupils for an adult life in which they have the greatest possible degree of autonomy and support them in having relationships with mutual respect and dependence on each other
 Increase pupils’ awareness and understanding of their environment and of the world
 Encourage pupils to explore, to question and to challenge
 Provide a wide range of learning experiences for pupils in each key stage suitable for their age.
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