WHY we teach what we teach?

Landon School is a specialist school for children with Severe Learning Difficulties and Autism. Our curriculum is set in the context of a multi-tiered curriculum approach (Equals, 2021), recognising that

differentiation from England’s National Curriculum is not sufficient

to meet the needs of children with severe or global learning difficulties. For our pupils, who are all working consistently and over time below or very near the start of the national curriculum, curricula needs to be

different rather than differentiated

because the way such pupils learn is different and often very different from neuro-typical, conventional developing learners for whom the national curriculum was designed (Imray, P. 2021).