Jul 12, 2020
In this episode, Katie Fielding, Deputy Head, Kingsbury Primary Special School, describes their Rainbow Experience curriculum developed at the school.
In a very detailed presentation, Katie tackles pertinent topics such as the transition back to school from Lockdown and uses the 5 Levers and trauma informed practice models to demonstrated how carefully planned, gently phased recovery programmes may be designed for children with Complex Needs.
She always corroborates the innovative ideas for practice with carefully thought out examples of children and their experiences. The child’s need become the justification and rationale for practice innovation.
The Child Passport for Transition truly values what families have been doing with their children and how their insights can aid the transfer and return back to school.
Katie thinks of the needs of Staff too, and what transition for them might look like. Close partnership work with families is key to the planning and implementation of the transition, which includes home visits as a central platform for this work.
As other schools prepare for the transition of children back to school, this is a timely and informative podcast. The idea of designing and building a Rainbow Path, as a constant, experiential memorial is stunning! We need always to provide children with opportunities to recall their experience of this pandemic, which may be over time and via many alternative means of communication. her focus overall is to ensure that school, once more, ”... becomes a happy, happy place.”
In addition to providing the presentation, Katie has generously shared a downloadable copy of the school’s Rainbow Curriculum Handbook, as well as some other resources referred to in the presentation. See below to download and/or link to these.
The title and theme of Katie’s presentation is:
Our Rainbow Experience …The Kingsbury Way
You can watch and listen to a video slide show of the presentation on the episode webpage:
https://www.evidenceforlearning.net/learningshared/recoverycurriculum13-katie-fielding/
There are also a number of articles and references on the episode page, as well as downloadable copies of Kingsbury School's Rainbow Experience Curriculum Handbook and the Passport Back to School document referred to by Katie during the presentation.
More info on the Recovery Curriculum
For information on the Recovery Curriculum, including the original Think Piece entitled “A Recovery Curriculum: Loss and Life for our children and schools post pandemic”, lectures, resources, reference materials and details of the online communities of practice, visit:
https://www.recoverycurriculum.org
Join the conversation about The Recovery Curriculum:
Clearly any form of Recovery Curriculum will need to be unique to each and every school, contextualised to the ethos, culture and values of that school, as well as its existing curriculum and crucially reflecting and addressing the needs and aspirations of its unique population of learners.
We have created private groups in LinkedIn and Facebook where colleagues and peers can discuss and share thoughts, ideas, experiences, resources and learning in relation to education and provision post pandemic. The groups are also an opportunity to connect people and help you to build a network that can support you on your own important journey over the coming months.
Facebook Group: Recovery Curriculum
We’ve set up a private facebook group specifically for The Recovery Curriculum at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/recoverycurriculum
or search for “recoverycurriculum” in Facebook.
Facebook: EfL SEND Community Group
Join us at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/eflSENDCommunity/
or search for “eflSENDCommunity” in Facebook.
The purpose of the group is to provide a safe, closed space to seek out and share ideas, experience and resources that can help with any and all aspects of SEND provision. It’s also a community for practitioners and schools that use Evidence for Learning and Insights for Learning to share ideas, resources and support each other in using these apps. This is a peer-moderated and supported group.
Linkedin Group: The Recovery Curriculum
The group is called “A Recovery Curriculum for children & schools post-pandemic” and you can find it at: