​​Our classrooms, and other work spaces, are consciously designed to be safe, calm and interesting places to learn. We consider both the learning and the sensory needs of children when creating learning spaces and aim to use the beauty that is the natural world as our inspiration throughout school.

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Our classrooms are designed to be accessible for all children. Equipment is clearly labelled (including consistent visual prompts where required), storage is organised to encourage independence and a daily visual timetable is in place so all children know what to expect and when. 

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We have a number of areas within school where other activities and interventions can take place: The Den, The Nook, Connect Classroom, the Library Space, our Garden and the school Wilderness Areas. 

Some of these areas are designed to be a bridge between school and home/outside; a place where children can feel safe, secure and develop their individual needs further. 

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At times, children are referred by their class teacher to our Student Support Team for additional support.

These children may require specific intervention that cannot be delivered within the classroom environment. Examples of these include: specific academic interventions, emotional literacy focus work or sessions linked to communication and interaction skills (such as attention, interacting with others and turn). 

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At Wath Central, we carry out a variety of interventions such as:

• SALT interventions

• Phonics Interventions

• Maths Pre/Post Learning

• Play Brick Therapy

• Happy in My Skin (Self-Esteem)

• Gremlins (Mental Wellbeing)

• Team building

• Zones of Regulation

• Bonding through Play​

Emotion regulation is something that everyone continually works on whether we are aware of it or not. We all encounter trying circumstances that can test our limits. If we can recognize when we are becoming less regulated, we are able to do something about it to manage our feelings and get ourselves to a healthy place. This comes more naturally for some, but for others it is a skill that needs more attention, practice and sometimes explicit teaching. 

At Wath Central, we use The Zones of Regulation (by Leah Kuypers) to teach the children about different feelings. We talk openly to children about how emotions come in different sizes, intensities, and levels of energy that are unique to our own brain and body. 

The Zones of Regulation organises our feelings, state of alertness, and energy levels into four coloured Zones:

• Blue zone - sad, sick, tired and bored

• Green zone - happy, calm, focused, ok

• Yellow zone - frustrated worried, silly, excited

• Red zone - angry, terrified, over-excited, out of control

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The simple, common language and visual structure of Zones of Regulation helps to make the complex skill of regulation more concrete for our children and those who support them.