Bamboo
Bespoke learning for children who like to 'Think Outside the Box'.
Specialising in supporting autistic children and young people with Pathological Demand Avoidance.
About
Bamboo are excited to work with children and young people for whom mainstream education is not the right fit. With our personal as well as professional experience we are able to provide bespoke learning experiences tailored specifically to the needs and interests of the individual child but also rooted in a recognised curriculum. This works especially well for children with PDA.
We are proud to be collaborating with Spectrum Space- follow link for more information.
Distance Learning Programme
Personalised learning
We design a bespoke personalised curriculum which is tailored around the individual's passions and interests, whilst being rooted in a nationally recognised curriculum. Alongside the child's interests, we use the Functional Skills Curriculum as well as the EHCP outcomes to ensure the best fit for your child. Students are sent weekly boxes of interest based, carefully planned, practical learning activities for which feedback is given by our qualified and experienced teacher. This is a distance learning programme which can be done anywhere and at any time of the day, to suit the needs of each particular student.
Access
The curriculum can then be delivered by parents, carers or your own support workers both in the home and in your local community.
Where do we work?
Bamboo are delighted to be able to offer bespoke learning packages to children and young people in the Local Authority regions of Liverpool, St Helens, Wirral, Warrington, Wigan, Cheshire East and also Cheshire West and Chester.
Learn more about our services. Contact us today.
Gemma is a qualified teacher of over 18 years experience, with a passion for 'thinking outside the box' in terms of education. She has been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to design and deliver a well received creative curriculum within a mainstream primary setting and is now excited to be building on this to reach those learners for whom a mainstream setting is not the right fit. She is also a parent to two children, one of whom was unable to access education within school for over two years. Alongside this she has recently completed an MA in Education and Social Justice through Lancaster University, with a research interest in the PDA experience within mainstream settings, creative learning and also the challenges for families around achieving EOTAS (Education Other Than at School).
Gemma MacPherson LLB(Hons) PGCE MA
