Engagement is a journey that connects a child and their environment (including people, ideas, materials and concepts) to enable learning and achievement.  Without engagement there is no deep learning, effective teaching, meaningful outcome, real attainment or quality progress. (Carpenter 2010)

Educators working with children & young people with Complex Learning Difficulties & Disabilities need to:

• work with children & young people to establish ‘learning readiness’.
   
• make knowledge, understanding & skills desirable to children & young people so that they have a thirst to learn and become engaged learners.
   
• increase their post-school life opportunities.

From September 2021 The Engagement Model is statutory for all primary aged students and schools will be required to:

• Use The Engagement Model alongside assessment models already in place.

At Endeavour this is Evidence for Learning which enables us to track individual student’s progress against their curriculum Learning Intentions through class observations and multi-professional discussions.

• Report to the Department for Education (DfE) which primary aged students are being assessed using The Engagement Model. 

Nationally this is all primary students not engaged in subject specific learning (English, Geography, Science etc)

At Endeavour this is all our primary aged students as they have their personalised Endeavour Curriculum.