Nurturing Wellbeing Through Nature
Exceed offers holistic and therapeutic experiences for children and young people who may benefit from a different approach to learning. Set within a natural woodland environment, our programme combines outdoor learning, animal care, creativity and teamwork to help each young person feel safe, valued and able to succeed.
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Our key Aim is to inspire every young person who attends Exceed to establish positive and trusting relationships. To develop life skills, emotional competencies and the resilience necessary to fulfil their true potential and engage positively in their education with a transformed approach and attitude to learning.
A different kind of learning experience.
The Exceed Experience
Our Exceed Experience is a holistic and therapeutic programme which offers a range of activities to support children and young people’s wellbeing and sense of worth. This programme is delivered through a rotation of activities across the following four themes
Animal Care
1
3
Creative Activities
2
Outdoor Learning
4
Team Building
“Exceed has provided our young person the nurture and direction she has needed to reach her potential within education. Staff are attuned to the young people and are able to provide a package that is tailored to their individual needs."
- Senior Social Worker (Children Leaving Care)
" Our young person has enjoyed her time at
Exceed so much that she has asked to
attend during the school holidays!”
- Senior Social Worker (Children Leaving Care)
“Exceed has been a life changing experience for my 10-year-old son who has complex needs. He has been unable to engage in fulltime school life but since attending Exceed, he has grown and developed in ways I never thought possible. The staff are incredible in understanding his needs and providing the
support he so badly needs.”
- Eton Dorney Independent Therapeutic School, Parent
“We have young people attend Exceed through the year. These young people have always struggled to attend any outreach provision but, at Exceed they flourish. The team go above and beyond to cater for the young person and their interests, and this encourages the young people to engage. They are very person centered and this is important.”
- Home Manager for Crisis Intervention
“Our Pupils are thriving at Exceed. The therapeutic approach taken by adults is supporting our pupils to reengage with learning and successfully connect with peers. A bespoke package tailored to individual needs means every pupil is progressing from their starting point, and every step of achievement is acknowledged and celebrated."
- Huckleberry Independent Therapy School,
Headteacher
“Pupils are nurtured and supported in
a way which has positively impacted their mental
health, self-esteem and confidence giving them
hope, belief and ambition for the future”
- Huckleberry Independent Therapy School,
Headteacher
“I didn't think life could get any better until I
went to Exceed”
- MC, Year 6 pupil
“It’s time to Succeed at Exceed!”
- Post 16 learner
Nurturing well-being through nature
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