With the move to the new school, many girls found they were able to manage successfully many of the difficulties they had struggled with on the old site.  They now have more space, open grounds, fields and many have developed a sense of pride in their school.  The numbers of girls in the behaviour area at present is small (although their needs are complex) and this enabled a great drive to take place on the learning side, with more rigorous planning and implementation for the girls that can now access this support in a calm environment.

The work in the centre continues to focus on early intervention, offering both fixed term and on-going support and encompasses a range of provision:

• Designated Learning Support Area
• Designated Behaviour Support Area
• Golden Curriculum
• School refusers /chronic non-attendance
• Students at risk of exclusion
• Students with mental health issues/physical health difficulties
• Integration of new pupils deemed at risk of a successful transfer
• Re-integration of identified pupils following fixed term exclusion
• EAL support
• LAC Support

Students receive expert guidance and support from experienced staff through differentiated and appropriate programmes with EQ forming the foundation to all interventions.  Students have access to a learning mentor and each intervention programme is individually tailored to the student.  Importantly it also provides a strong support system for staff, enabling mainstream class environments to continue functioning effectively.  Reintegration to mainstream classes is monitored.

The Golden Curriculum continues to thrive and is now an established resource  for approximately 15 Yr 7 pupils.  With specialist teaching staff, this group makes good progress and achieves a successful KS2/3 transition.  This provision is actively being sought by parents/carers of prospective pupils to ensure their daughter's successful integration into secondary education

 Some views of the girls accessing LSC support last year. (2006-7)

• The unit is for people that need help with their work.  I think I should be in the unit because I cannot disturb people in class and I can get on with my own work better, then I won't get sent to Isolation. Yr 9 pupil.                                                                             
• I feel that the LSC helps me not to talk and wander round the classroom.  It helps you to behave in lessons.   I wander round the classroom because the work is too easy and the teacher just stands there talking.  In the LSC I like the fact that we are given work and we are to do it, so we are not just listening to the teacher talk.  I would like to go back to class Yr 9 pupil. Achieved very well in SATs- above expectations.                                                                                   

• The unit is for people to help them with their work and their feelings.  It helps me by being in the unit because it calms my temper and I can work better.  Yr 8 pupil.
  
• I am in here because I have been taken out of the lessons I am disruptive in.  It is helping me in here because I don't feel like I need to get attention anymore.  The reason for that is because there aren't as many people to contend with. I would like to stay in here for some lessons.  I've improved loads being in here. In a way I like being in here but in a way I don't.  They are calmer in here and you get more attention without trying really hard to get it.  I really miss my friends and really want to go back to class but I know it's going to take time and a lot of hard work.  Yr 8 pupil.
  
• I am in the LSC because of my behaviour.  It helps me because I can learn to be nice to people and how I can be nice to other people that I didn't use to like.  It helps me with my emotions in and out of the classroom. Yr 8 pupil.
  
• I am in here today because I have had too many problems with people.  I am stressed out with everything.  It is not helping me because I have all the problems in my head and it's not going away, but it helps a bit because I get to speak to Mrs ....... I think I need a little bit more time. Yr 10 pupil.