DRAFT PRS (english) - Monmouthshire

The Monmouthshire Pupil Referral Service (PRS)

The PRS provides education for children and young people experiencing social, emotional and mental health needs, including those who, by reason of illness, exclusion or otherwise, may not receive such education in a mainstream school.

The PRS offer a variety of high-quality teaching and learning, and holistic person-centred support to empower learners to be ambitious capable learners; enterprising, creative contributors, healthy confident individuals, and ethical, informed citizens.

The Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) element of the service provides a statutory, rapid response often at short notice for those pupils who have been permanently excluded from their school. It also provides intervention and support for pupils who are at risk of being excluded through nurturing and strengthening the emotional wellbeing and social skills of learners.

The PRS also provide EOTAS Medical provision for pupils who are too ill to currently attend school.

The PRS offers an engaging curriculum that focuses on developing learners as effective contributors to society. As well as core subjects, learners also have the opportunity to participate in vocational studies, and are supported in enhancing their social, emotional and wellbeing needs.

The PRS is intended as a short term provision with a focus on supporting the reintegration of learners back into mainstream provision where safe and appropriate. The PRS has undergone a review, and recent changes reflect the ongoing improvement to the service and include moving into two newly refurbished sites in Chepstow and Abergavenny.

Key Dates

Key Dates	Info
1^st and 2^nd September 2025	INSET Days 1 and 2
3^rd September 2025	First day of lessons 2025-26
22^nd September 2025	Parent/Carer surveys open
7^th October 2025	Open Afternoon with Macmillan Tea & Cake’ – Chepstow Centre
9^th October 2025	Open Afternoon with Macmillan Tea & Cake Abergavenny Centre / GIlwern
16^th October 2025	Year 11 Expectations 4pm – 5pm (EOTAS Medical)
20^th November 2025	5^th December 2025 – English Language IRPs (Year 11) start
21^st November 2025	Progress Check published
5^th January 2026	INSET Day 3
12^th January 2026	Parent/Carer Surveys start
23^rd February – 6^th March 2026	English Language Group Discussions (Year 11) start
2^nd March 2026	INSET Day 4
w.c. 9^th March 2026	Parent/Carer Consultations
22^nd May 2026	Reports published
1^st June 2026	Parent/Carer Surveys
25^th June 2026	Leavers’ Celebration and Year 11 last day
26^th June 2026	INSET Day 5
17^th July 2026	Last Day of Term
20^th July 2026	INSET Day 6

Term time:

Term	Start	Half Term Start	Half Term Ends	Term Ends
Autumn	Monday 1 September 2025	Monday 27 October 2025	Friday 31 October 2025	Friday 19 December 2025
Spring	Monday 5 January 2026	Mon 16 February 2026	Friday 20 February 2026	Friday 27 March 2026
Summer	Monday 13 April 2026	Monday 25 May 2026	Friday 29 May 2026	Monday 20 July 2026

School Day:

Time	Activity
9:00 am – 9:10 am	Registration
9:10 am – 10:10 am	Lesson 1
10:10 am – 10:15 am	Movement Break
10:15 am – 11:15 am	Lesson 2
11:15 am – 11:30 am	Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Lesson 3
12:30 am – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lesson 4
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm	Break
2:15 pm – 03:15 pm	Lesson 5 (EOTAS medical pupils only)

Curriculum

Our curriculum is designed to support our learners in overcoming those barriers that are preventing them from accessing mainstream provision and from participating fully in education. It is a learner centred curriculum that has high expectations and aspirations for each pupil. It is based on our unwavering belief that everyone has the ability to fulfil their potential and achieve great things. It is rooted in our understanding that what we become and achieve comes from engaging teaching, resilience, hard work and fantastic support.

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Our curriculum is pupil centred. Our curriculum planning, design and implementation focuses on the following elements:

nurturing and strengthening the health and well-being of each learner;
systematic collaboration between learner, parents/carers, mainstream school and a range of providers;
access to an inclusive curriculum that focuses on the individual needs of each learner;
supporting the reintegration or transition of learners receiving our provision into mainstream or specialist provision, and/or enabling them to progress towards further education, training or the world of work.

The curriculum embraces the Curriculum for Wales and is specifically designed to meet the needs of our PRS community. The curriculum is planned to support and meet the needs of learners’ mental, emotional, physical and social well-being. Learners who are not content, safe and secure will not learn effectively: well-being is a critical enabler of learning.

It promotes the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of our learners and allows them to appreciate human creativity and achievement.

Our curriculum represents, celebrates, and values the rich diversity and inclusivity within our communities. It fully caters for the needs of learners for which English is not their first language and for learners with additional learning needs. The important skills of speaking, listening, literacy and numeracy and digital competency are promoted throughout the curriculum at all key stages.