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The SHINE Centre is a small specialist SEMH provision located within The Winstanley School, with a genuine mainstream collaboration, partnership and learning experiences for every young person.

The SHINE Centre has been designed to educate fifteen secondary age young people, to promote innovative, quality first teaching, with a personalised curriculum offer to help reignite the interest of each pupil and inspire an enthusiasm for learning, whilst also creating a holistic support package to support every pupil in their learning.

All students have an educational Health Care Plan (EHCP) for social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH). The staff running the provision have substantial experience of successfully supporting children with SEMH needs, and includes teachers,instructors, Learning Support Assistants (LSAs), a Wellbeing practitioner and an Educational Psychologist.

The SHINE Centre is a detached, single story sanctuary which can house 15 students and comprises of six separate classrooms and a communal area which include spaces for:

• Design Technology and Art

• Music technology / IT suite

• A kitchen/cyber cafe/indoor recreation

• a meeting room for parents, 1:1 work and therapeutic work,

• a nurture/breakout room,

• a safe and secure breakout / recreation area immediately outside the building,

• secure, designated staff only areas for planning, preparation and administrative work.

Students receive a full academic and therapeutic curriculum provision where possible, tailored to the students particular needs up to GCSE level, with the potential to integrate into relevant mainstream subjects. There is also time dedicated to Outdoor education for KS3 and Work experience for KS4.