School Commissioned Services

Alderwood Academy School Commissioned Pathway

First Base Bury St Edmunds Academy School Commissioned Pathway

First Base Ipswich Academy School Commissioned Pathway

Parkside Academy School Commissioned Pathway

St Christopher’s Academy School Commissioned Pathway

The Albany Academy School Commissioned Pathway

Westbridge Academy School Commissioned Pathway

The Assessment Centre provides a comprehensive approach to understanding and supporting individual pupil needs. Through assessments, family engagement, and collaboration with the pupil’s home school, we gather detailed insights into each student’s strengths, interests, and barriers to learning. This informs a tailored Student Support Plan with targeted interventions.

Following a six-weekly Assess, Plan, Do, Review (APDR) cycle, pupil progress is closely monitored and SMART targets refined as needed. Work can be delivered peripatetically, virtually, or within a Raedwald Trust academy, ensuring flexibility and accessibility for all pupils.

Our bespoke Attendance Support packages help schools address persistent pupil absenteeism. We begin with a detailed review of attendance data, design effective school-led programmes, provide staff training on EBSA and the underlying causes of absence, and advise on creating supportive learning environments for pupils experiencing long-term absence. Each package is tailored to meet the unique needs of the school, ensuring sustainable improvements in attendance and pupil engagement.

We provide bespoke programmes tailored to meet the needs of the school, and to help staff understand behaviour and respond effectively.  Using a kindness-first approach, we teach strategies to model positive behaviour and equip pupils to make constructive choices.

We offer a range of carefully designed curriculum packages to support schools in delivering high-quality, inclusive education, currently including Readers for Life and PSHE.

These packages have been developed in response to the needs we see across our work with schools, particularly in supporting pupils who require more personalised approaches to learning.

Readers for Life promotes a love of reading while building core literacy skills through structured, engaging materials, while our PSHE curriculum supports pupils’ personal, social, health, and emotional development in a structured and age-appropriate way.

Each package is underpinned by evidence-informed practice and can be adapted to suit the context of individual settings. We manage these services through a collaborative approach, offering guidance, training, and ongoing support to ensure effective implementation, while maintaining regular communication with schools to monitor impact and respond to emerging needs.

We help schools refine their curriculum to meet the needs of vulnerable and complex learners. This includes reviewing monitoring systems, providing staff training, and supporting curriculum development to meet statutory requirements.

We provide tailored support to strengthen English as an Additional Language (EAL) provision. Packages include staff training, assessments, targeted interventions, and support in building links with families and communities. Bespoke training is delivered for leaders, teachers, support staff, and EAL coordinators, embedding inclusive and effective practice across the school.

Our pioneering Medical Needs in School (MNIS) programme offers bespoke support to improve outcomes for children being educated in a medical setting such as a hospital.

We offer training on supporting young people with a variety of health and mental health needs. We provide Department for Education statutory guidance on best practice for supporting students with medical needs.

We offer a portfolio of workshops on anxiety, self-harm, pain management, eating disorders, and many more. We provide toolkits explaining conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), chronic pain and anxiety.

We offer a dedicated MNIS representative to guide schools through each step and always be on hand to provide 1:1 support.

More information about MNIS can be found here.

Our PSHE curriculum for Key Stages 2 & 3 develops pupils’ social, emotional, and academic skills, based on evidence from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).

Lessons focus on the five core Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies:

• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Social awareness
• Relationship skills
• Responsible decision-making

Each lesson gives pupils the opportunity to practise these skills while engaging with PSHE content. Research shows that developing SEL skills in childhood supports better mental and physical health, engagement with learning, and academic achievement.

Packages include lesson plans, resources, and guidance, helping staff deliver age-appropriate learning while saving planning time and ensuring continuity across all key stages.

Our safeguarding support package helps partner schools develop a consistent, effective safeguarding approach, reviewing policies, attendance management, and alternative provision support. Our thorough review of all practices and policy means leaders and school staff can be confident they are meting the needs of students and families.

We robustly test accountability, staff knowledge and lines of communication to ensure schools are meeting the statutory requirements. There are reviews of safeguarding policy, how the school manages nonattendance and support from alternative provision. At the end of the review, we complete a report on our findings with a set of recommendations, where needed.

Our experienced team supports alternative provision and specialist units, identifying areas for improvement and developing tailored solutions. Services include audits, focus groups, staff coaching, pre- and post-Ofsted support, and guidance for underachieving or ‘at-risk’ pupils.

We provide short- and long-term SEND packages for mainstream early years, primary, secondary, and alternative provision. Services include policy and provision advice, monitoring, data analysis, interventions, SEND surgeries, EHCP support, and staff supervision guidance.

Our pupils have diverse and unique experiences that require a curriculum that is relevant to their lives. Our curriculum is oracy focused and supports:

• Language as a wellbeing indicator
• Access to the curriculum
• Engagement with the wider world
• Aspiration and belief for every child and young person
• Empowering adults

The Literature Spine

Our literature spine includes books that give pupils rich literary experiences that have been carefully selected for pupils accessing Alternative Provision. Each  text gives pupils a mirror in to their own lives as well as a window to the wider world. It is:

• Diverse
• Challenging
• Relevant
• Evocative
• Formative
• Joyful

The books explore:

• Inspirational figures
• Celebrating diversity
• Environmental responsibility
• Historical issues
• Female representation
• Current issues

SEND

Daily lessons provide:

• Scaffolding opportunities in every lesson
• Careful consideration to reducing cognitive load
• Opportunities for revisiting and repetition to build confidence and familiarity