The Hub is a nurturing, supportive and calm environment.  A home from home, where each child is greeted at the door in the morning with a smile and joins their peers and teachers for a welcoming cup of tea and toast.

We offer the academic and also creative subjects such as Art, Cookery, Yoga, Meditation, Outdoor Learning, Mental Health and Wellbeing and much, much more. We foster a multi-agency approach to cater to the holistic needs of students in an inclusive, positive and family environment. Staff are restraint trained and experienced in handling challenging behaviours, on the rare occasion that we may need it.

Students work in individual learning spaces one to one with a qualified teacher and have the support of two Thrive Practitioners. This allows us to focus on their individual needs and help them to achieve their targets.

Our unique setting is custom designed with the Thrive containment philosophy in mind. Students demonstrate a notable improvement when working within the containment of their personalised classroom. This method has proved to have an extraordinary effect on our pupils’ (Hubsters’) emotional stability, serving to ensure that they feel safe, secure and valued.

The Thrive Approach draws on insights from recent advances in neuroscience, attachment theory and child development to provide a powerful way of working with children and young people that supports optimal social and emotional development. The Approach allows us to work in a targeted way with children and young people who may have struggled with difficult life events to help them re-engage with life and learning.

Thrive is firmly embedded in all aspects of the Hub, from the short lesson times, to individual classrooms, to a therapeutic and creative based curriculum.  We hold daily group Thrive sessions, to promote and encourage appropriate social interaction with their peers, and improve self-confidence and tolerance.

Through our innovative rewards system, we operate a positive behaviour management culture.  Hubsters can earn hub points and these can be exchanged for daily rewards, or saved up for an end of term treat, such as a trip out on bikes, or a café trip with their chosen Hub adult.

We also encourage the Hubsters to interact appropriately with adults in the local community.  Whether that be the Hub wood-fired pizza oven being sparked up and the Hubsters selling and delivering pizzas to local businesses, or visits to local supermarkets to donate to the food banks. This all helps develop various skills such as Maths, English, culinary and social.

Our provision is staffed with high quality, Thrive trained and experienced staff.  Our specialist teachers understand only too well that behaviour is used as a communicator of emotions.  The pupils’ dedicated individual teacher uses the Thrive approach to model appropriate discharge strategies by working as a co-regulator.  Many children with SEMH difficulties have not developed an effective stress management system when they come to us.

By using our dynamic, developmental and trauma-sensitive approach, we can tailor each child’s therapeutic and educational plan to help them develop effective strategies for dealing with dysregulation.

Curriculum - For short-term placements we can deliver work set by schools, or provide our own in-line with our Hub thematic plans.  We plan in line with the National Curriculum and create individual bespoke learning packages, encouraging academic success for all pupils.

Exam centre - Principal Teachers Hub has been approved to offer Pearson Edexcel programmes of study and qualifications to our students and also external candidates.  We currently offer GCSEs in English and Maths and Pearson Edexcel Functional Skills qualifications in English and Maths from Entry 1 to Level 2. As a registered exam centre, we are able to host students to sit their schools exams in a quieter environment.

Online tutoring and Out-reach tutoring – Principal Teachers Hub are also able to offer a range of online or outreach tutoring to support students and schools to accelerate progress. One to one tutoring is proven to be one of the most effective ways of speeding up a child’s progress and boosting their results so it’s not surprising that this is becoming a popular option for additional support. Our tutors are able to provide online tutoring or out-reach tutoring at a mutually approved location.

At PT Hub we use Thrive-Online, which is a web-based tool that helps us to assess and support children's emotional and social development.  We can also offer Thrive assessments for children in your school, should you wish to use this service.  Using an integrative model drawn from child development, neuroscience and attachment research, the programme identifies the emotional learning the children need.

Our Thrive practitioners are able to use the assessment system to prove that Thrive works and improves outcomes for our Hub pupils.  This has been particularly helpful for Hub staff when in discussions with Ofsted about our impact on pupils’ learning and development. Thrive-Online enables us to gather and apply data relating to pupils’ social and emotional development and demonstrate impact.

The daily cost for a pupil includes their one to one teacher, all resources, attending EHCP review meetings, child protection conferences, core group meetings, child in need meetings and engaging in other discussions with professionals as appropriate to individual students. We maintain regular contact with social workers, or any other agency who may be involved with the pupil.

We work closely with parents and schools, providing daily and weekly feedback for parents and stakeholders is all part of our service.  A fortnightly newsletter is also produced, along with termly academic reports, demonstrating students’ progress.