The Quest Programme

Quest - searching for the treasures of Reading and Numeracy

Salcombes Quest Programmes provide supplementary learning support in Reading and Mathematics to selected younger children who need assistance in addition to the planned differentiated programmes operating in each classroom. The Quest Learning Centre provides learning support to children using a tutorial format  provided by the SENCO and specilaist teachers throughout the year.

The main focus of the Quest Centre is to enable children experiencing difficulty to become more effective learners and, therefore to succeed academically. This is done by teaching students more efficient ways to learn information and how to retain such information in their long-term memory.

Using a 'learning how to learn' approach to assist the chldren, the Quest Learning Centre employs such methods as learning styles, accelerated learning and memory techniques to encourage students to gain an understanding of how they learn.   As well, students are expected and encouraged to take responsibility for their own individual learning processes.