The Children's Trust School
Special needs catered for
The Children's Trust School is a non-maintained independent special school for children and young people aged 2-19 with complex health and medical needs and multiple barriers to learning.
As specialists in our field, we are able to support children with:
- neurological disorders including degenerative conditions
- brain injury
- global developmental delay or profound and multiple learning difficulties
- severe learning difficulties
- sensory impairments (visual, hearing, multi-sensory)
- complex health and medical needs
- tracheostomy
- assisted ventilation
- complex medication regimes
- epilepsy
- children considered palliative
Specialist facilities
Our school is set within a 24-acre leafy estate at The Children's Trust national specialist centre in Tadworth, Surrey.
The physical environment of The Children's Trust School is appropriate and responsive to meet the needs of the children attending our School. This includes relevant equipment such as that for hoisting and changing, including height adjustable and visually adaptable equipment.
Facilities within The Children's Trust School include:
- classrooms with en-suite bathrooms
- medication preparation room
- medical suite
- clinical/treatment room for visiting clinics i.e. orthotics
multi-sensory rooms in each classroom
- music hub
Additional facilities on-site for children and families to enjoy include:
- parent accommodation*
- a state-of-the-art aquatics therapy pool
- playground equipment
- nature trail
- woodland walk
- residential houses
- 24-acre site
- respite provision
- on-site x-ray facility
- outdoor musical instruments
- sensory gardens and rooms
- maze
- basketball area
- on-site transportation team
- on-site accessible canteen open for families to enjoy
Support services provided
Dedicated and skilled staff maintain a focus on learning, with the multi-disciplinary integrated approach being a huge strength of our school.
Together we create an effective whole system to deliver high-quality support and experience for children with special educational needs, placing their quality of life at the heart of what we do
Home school links
We work closely with families to ensure effective communication, strong partnership working and close involvement.
We welcome visits, calls and communication from parents, carers, siblings, other family members and professionals. We offer parent and carer workshops for active involvement with sessions. We encourage family inclusion in enrichment events and welcome visits to celebrate success.
Our offer spans to young people aged 19 and are proud to offer a dedicated post 16 offer via our Cedar Centre which forms part of The Children's Trust School.
General environment
The physical environment of The Children's Trust School is appropriate and responsive to meet the needs of the children attending our School. This includes relevant equipment such as that for hoisting and changing, including height adjustable and visually adaptable equipment.
Residential accommodation at The Children's Trust provides a homely, caring and safe environment. Purpose-built and co-located on the same site as our School, accommodation is comfortably furnished with all the necessary adaptive equipment needed.
Aims and philosophy
Our mission
To support children and young people to live the best life possible, with excellent education, health therapy and care (EHTC).
Our vision
The Children's Trust School will be a growth-orientated national centre of excellence for children and their families - with all environments promoting innovative, researched best practice through visionary integrated EHTC.
Our education, health, therapy and care teams work collaboratively with high ambition, strong commitment and a shared value base.
Together, we have a 'whole system response' to deliver high quality support for children with special educational needs, placing their quality of life at the centre of what we do.
By working in partnership with parents and carers, we promote each child's intellectual, physical, emotional and social development, both during the school day and beyond. We deliver a personalised curriculum in an integrated, holistic and age-respectful way to support each child to achieve their full potential in meaningful ways.
The intent of our curriculum is to teach each child to acquire skills in communication and to learn sense of agency i.e. control over their actions. We have a range of specialist facilities and plan enrichment activities that respond to individual needs and preferences.
We are immensely proud to lead and work with a team of people who have a wealth of experience and who embrace and share the School's ethos, and aims and objectives of our residential accommodation.
We provide a safe, caring, organised and happy environment in which the needs of all the children we support can be met.
Staff qualification and selection
Our multidisciplinary team works across our school and residential accommodation to ensure that the child's plans and programmes are designed holistically with strategies to optimise their accessibility to learn, participate and thrive.
We have a large team of on-site specialists employed directly by the organisation, including:
- teachers (including those qualified in early years, visual impairment and multi-sensory impairment)
- qualified professionals trained to deliver Sounds of Intent (music)
- yoga specialists
- therapists (including occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, music therapists and multi-disciplinary technicians)
- play and leisure specialists
- medical staff (including doctors and consultants)
- nurses (including paediatric and learning disability)
- children's support assistants
- advocacy service
- critical care response team
- support staff (including specialist teaching assistants and care staff)
- educational psychologists
- many visiting professionals that support the curriculum, bespoke projects and specialist clinics
- specialist safeguarding staff
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