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Exceptional Ideas Ltd was established in 2007 to provide educational consultancy and training. We opened Teaseldown School in Ridgewell, Essex, in 2009 to support young people aged 11–17 in overcoming the barriers they faced within the mainstream education system. In 2013, Primrose Hill School in Chelmsford was opened to complement Teaseldown School. In January 2015, Teaseldown School relocated to larger, bespoke premises in Sible Hedingham’s Sugar Loaves building. Brook View School, situated at the former Brewery Tavern site in Wethersfield, became the latest addition to our organisation in early 2015.
Therapeutic Education and Outreach Services
Exceptional Ideas Ltd also provides therapeutic education through outreach services. Our multi-professional approach uses evidence-based planning and evaluation processes supported by current practitioner research. We believe therapeutic education should be creative, flexible, and individually tailored, incorporating measurable assessments of progress. We are committed to ensuring that all students have access to a comprehensive curriculum spanning Key Stages 3 to 4, including formal examinations such as GCSEs. Our educational programmes include GCSE, Entry Level Certificates (ELC), ASDAN, and online learning platforms such as Lexia, and Mathletics.
About Us - Exceptional Ideas Ltd
Our Team
Our staff come from diverse professional backgrounds, contributing a wide range of skills and expertise to our team. Every member undergoes comprehensive internal training, ensuring they understand and embody our ethos with clarity and consistency.
Our Aim
We aim to provide good support for all staff to enable them to become the best they can be for our students and parents. This means following and explaining reasons behind our policies and procedures and, ultimately, our philosophy within the realm of therapeutic education.
We aim to provide the best education possible for our students within a therapeutic environment and use an integrated therapeutic approach with both staff and students.
We aim to provide quality training for our staff and enable them to learn and improve at all times. We hold high expectations of our staff and students alike. We encourage, motivate, support and challenge our staff and students at all times and never rest on our laurels or believe that we have done all we can.
Our managers are aware of their role and the results of assessments and outcomes and have clarity over what we can do to improve the outcomes for staff and students. We are aware of our weaknesses and how and when we can improve these weaknesses.
We are uncompromising in working to improve the outcomes for our staff and students. We constantly review our performance and are critical of our performance. We do this through incisive supervision and performance review, regular collection and reflection on our performance measures and supporting and promoting understanding, knowledge, skills and providing equality of opportunity across the organisation. We safeguard children and staff effectively and protect them from radicalisation and challenge intolerance at every opportunity.
Admission to our Schools
Children who attend Exceptional Ideas Ltd are referred and approved by the Local Authority. After receiving referral paperwork, including the EHCP, senior staff will consider the suitability of placement with Exceptional Ideas Ltd. If it is likely that placement would be suitable in either a school or on our outreach service, an arrangement will be made with the parent/carer and the Local Authority to arrange an initial meet at the child's home.
Once it is deemed that our setting is fit for a student and placement is agreed by the relevant Local Authority, arrangements will be made to commence a four-week induction period. Details of this and the placement start date will be sent to the parent/carer in writing as soon as possible, to provide details and enable the child and their family to make provision for a change of educational setting.
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