Alternative Provision

Our home tuition service provides education for primary and secondary school aged children who are unable to attend mainstream school due to their medical health needs, whether this be physical, mental or emotional.

Referrals should be made by the child's school, through their usual AP process. We will then seek advice from the child's current school to establish the amount, pattern and location of the tuition, in addition to supporting their plan for reintegration back into mainstream school. Students are taught on a one to one basis in or small groups, meaning that staff can focus on developing positive, trusting relationships with students, and are able to highly personalise the teaching and be responsive to student needs.

Where possible, our tutors will work with the pupil in their home, at an approved council premises, or in their mainstream school as part of their reintegration. Online learning is also part of the home tuition offer, ensuring contact with highly vulnerable students is maintained.

The curriculum offer is broad and, as far as possible, aligns with the mainstream school curriculum. It is ambitious in terms of the range of qualifications offered to students, and the wider ambitions held by staff in terms of re-engaging students with learning, encouraging student personal development and independence.

Formative assessment is ongoing and continuous, and is used to inform planning and support student progress. Formal assessment is undertaken in line with the mainstream school, where possible, and where appropriate, Year 11 students sit mock exams.

For more information, please complete the contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

National Tutoring Programme (NTP)

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) was launched in November 2020 to help support disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils to catch-up on missed education due to coronavirus (COVID-19) through a targeted tuition provision.

School-Led Tutoring

The school-led tutoring grant is to support disadvantaged pupils in catch-up learning and schools will select the pupils in need of this support. This will focus on providing tuition to pupils eligible for pupil premium but also includes pupils with other types of disadvantage or additional needs. This includes special educational needs and disability (SEND) children who have a social worker, previously looked-after children, young carers and other vulnerable pupils.

How can we help?

Brainwave Mentoring offer support to pupils in Blackpool and the wider area with their education, both in school and out of school. All of our tutoring staff are fully qualified, experienced teachers who now work closely with schools and academy trusts to support those students who really need it.

Our tutors:

  • QTS certified - qualified teacher status.

  • Have gone through a safer recruitment and vetting processes

  • Have been selected for their subject knowledge and ability to engage with students

  • Understand how to communicate with children who may face mental health challenges