At Lime Hills, our purpose is to provide a nurturing environment where students feel known, accepted, and loved. Personalised learning plans are tailored to individual student needs. By building strong relationships grounded in care and high expectations, we empower students to unlock their potential to achieve success, growth, and pride on their own terms. We are committed to helping students feel a sense of belonging and to have a voice, enabling them to reflect on their journey, appreciate their achievements, and walk confidently towards their future.
Children at Lime Hills will be supported to develop self-regulation and a broader window of tolerance in their daily life so that they can access academic opportunities at their point of readiness. Each child will have a different range of needs and hence a different range of opportunities and interventions, and the curriculum will be designed around an understanding of the individual: no two curricula will look the same.
The staffing structure will support children to access learning through being more regularly in optimum arousal stage: this will be enabled by ensuring children are attached or allocated to three key staff, helping them to build relationships over time and enabling them to feel safe and thrive, even in the face of change. The small number of people working with each individual enables optimal arousal to learn, without the vulnerability associated with ensuring trusted connections with only one adult.
The day will involve routine and structure which creates a feeling of safety, without the rigidity of a mainstream setting: staff will be trained and empowered to deviate from routine where appropriate to help an individual to make progress socially, emotionally or academically whilst maintaining the very highest expectations. Lime Hills meets the needs of those most in need of specialist intervention. This is underpinned by the core HEART values of the CLF, namely:
