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Curriculum and Assessment Review: Click here to see a summary of the final report recommendations and why schools using Cornerstones curriculum content on Maestro, our digital curriculum platform, are already perfectly placed for the changes ahead.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

An adaptable curriculum for SEND learners

Designing a curriculum for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) requires expertise, flexibility, and a deep understanding of how children learn best. At Cornerstones Education, we understand the diverse and complex needs of learners in special and inclusive settings. Our curriculum is designed to help you create meaningful, fully inclusive learning experiences that meet the needs of every child.

Built for flexibility and personalisation

With Maestro, our powerful curriculum design platform, you can tailor projects, learning outcomes, and activities to meet a wide range of cognitive, communication, sensory, physical, and social-emotional needs. Projects can be adapted to reflect each child’s starting point and Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) outcomes.

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We help you

Tailor the curriculum to build a bespoke curriculum that reflects your children’s needs.

Choose the right projects and learning activities from a wide range of engaging, curriculum projects that can be adapted for cognitive, sensory, and communication needs.

Incorporate existing strengths of your curriculum by using Maestro’s unique tools and functionality.

Manage and track learning by using Maestro,  our intelligent online platform and our integrated assessment system.

Train your teachers, teaching assistants, and curriculum leads to deliver the curriculum with confidence.

Ensure appropriate coverage of the English national curriculum by using Maestro’s tracking and coverage functionality.

What you get

  • Access to our EYFS Curriculum: helping you build strong foundations from Nursery. Covers the Early Years Framework and is fully adaptable to suit the nuances of your setting.

  • 1:1 support throughout your time with us: access to a designated Curriculum Adviser. Providing you with training, consultations, practical support, advice and guidance.

  • Access to our award-winning curriculum platform Maestro: your curriculum and assessment all in one place. Available to all staff in one school or across your entire Trust.

  • Access to our fully integrated assessment suite: make live assessment judgements at the click of a button against your school curriculum. Helps teachers view gaps in learning, analyse data and report.

  • A choice of 469 curriculum projects: choose the projects you want, and we’ll help you build your perfect mixed-age coherent curriculum.

  • 1000s of quality resources: beautifully designed and embedded in your projects for ease of use. Includes presentations, English packs, videos, non-chronological reports, artefacts, information sheets, tests, quizzes and more.

  • An evidence-based pedagogy: tailored towards a knowledge-rich or creative teaching approach which teachers enjoy, and children love.

  • Fully aligned national curriculum content: easy to see your coverage of statutory programmes of study, helping you articulate your curriculum and evidence breadth and depth of your curriculum.

  • Ongoing updates and new content: new content available on a rolling programme, keeping your curriculum fresh and engaging. Free updated content when the national curriculum changes (Curriculum and Assessment Review 2025 pending).

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What you need to do

Call us to arrange your free consultation and curriculum viewing.

Organise your school training session.

Work with our school advisers to design your curriculum.

Benefits

  • A flexible and adaptable curriculum framework
    Easily personalise content to meet the individual learning needs and Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) targets of your children.

  • Child-centred pedagogy that respects all children’s needs and capabilities
    Grounded in a developmental, inclusive approach that values every child’s voice, strengths, and potential.

  • Multisensory and accessible learning
    Projects include a wealth of activities designed to support engagement through sensory exploration, play, visual prompts, and practical experiences.

  • Support for differentiated progression
    Use our progression framework to create individualised pathways that support both small steps and broader developmental milestones.

  • Communication and expression across the curriculum
    Encourage learning through a wide range of approaches including—speech, movement, play, drama and creative expression.

  • Confident staff, confident learners
    With hundreds of structured yet flexible resources, teachers and support staff can plan with clarity and deliver with confidence, ensuring that every child is included and engaged.

  • Success in all its forms
    Create a purposeful curriculum where all learners’ experience success, build confidence, and develop essential life and subject-specific skills.

  • Aligned with national expectations
    Maintain meaningful links to the English national curriculum while adapting learning goals to suit a range of abilities and pathways.

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Our creative projects might align with your schools’ values.

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