St Annes Learning Centre Independent Pupil Referral Unit

St Anne's Independent PRU provides continued education for those young people who find education in a formal setting challenging. The age ranges that are accommodated are 14 to 16; the centre is non-denominational. St Annes will be an educational link between state schools, Local Authorities and Social Services. The Centre’s aim is to ensure that young people do not become or remain educationally disadvantaged by exclusion policies.
St Anne's Independent PRU will work in partnership with its service users and those organizations directly connected with Young Persons.
St Annes is a fully registered Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) centre. All tutors are registered with ASDAN through our centre.

The Educational Ethos of St Anne's Independent PRU

St Anne's Independent PRU is to provide education for young people in accordance with the Children Act 2004 and the Document ‘Every Child Matters’.

St Annes will ensure that:
No Young Person is educationally disadvantaged, and that the educational provision at St Annes is a continuous and ongoing process. Young Persons with Special Educational Needs (SEN) will have those needs met as part of a continuous and ongoing educational process. The staff at St Annes will constantly strive to deliver high standards in all aspects of Education.
St Annes will provide a learning environment where the Young Person will be able to enjoy their educational experience without fear or anxiety. Young Persons will receive constant and ongoing encouragement to succeed.
St Annes is committed to the ASDAN programme as it provides a flexible learning tool for the type of Young Person admitted to our centre. Although we are not following the strict National Curriculum, the ASDAN scheme is in compliance with QCA and provides a link back into the National Curriculum, which then allows our Young Person a route back into mainstream education if that course of action is appropriate.
St Annes will help celebrate the achievements of its Young Persons in a tangible way: with bi-annual awards ceremonies.

Vision

All of those concerned can feel confident in the staff and be sure that their needs will be catered for. Each Young Person is treated with respect, kindness, and understanding. Young Person’s are encouraged to discover and question, explore and investigate, reflect and understand, in all areas of the curriculum. The Young People are encouraged to persevere, and to know and cope positively with both success and failure. Young People care for themselves, their cleanliness, dress and deportment within the culture of the pupil, which is seen to be important and reflected in their studies. The Young People continue their education in the maintained sector supplemented by our provision or use St Anne’s Centre of Learning as the sole provider of their education until such time as they can continue in their own school.

Aims

St Annes will work with Young Person’s in the following areas: Local Authorities, State Schools and appropriate Social Services Departments.
St Annes will work with all agencies in such a way, that Young People placed can feel secure in the judgements and decisions of the organisation, and that their needs are fully met and in their best interest.
In the dissemination of information, St Annes will work with all agencies to deliver any information with truth, justification, sincerity, impartiality, immediacy and confidentiality.
St Annes will ensure that all the clients and Young Person’s needs and wishes are treated with respect and understanding, and where we celebrate success.

St Annes is confident that we can provide high standards and quality education dedicated to, and deserved by all young people, whilst at the same time complementing the pattern of education provided at their own school.