Tel:

01454 412 194

Address:

Sheiling School
Park Road
Thornbury
Bristol BS35 1HP

Email:

mail@sheilingschool.org.uk

  

 

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The Sheiling School Thornbury is an independent school which provides both residential placements, termly and weekly, and day placements. 

The majority of our pupils are funded by Local Education Authorities, some jointly with Social Services or Health – we also accept privately funded pupils.

The School is unique in its provision for children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 with special educational needs, moderate to severe learning disability and complex needs; for example, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Fragile X, William’s Syndrome, Down’s Syndrome and other learning disabilities.

 

  • The recent care standards inspection (CSCI) rated us as “excellent” and the recent Ofsted inspections rated us as “outstanding” in the areas of care and education.

  • Another inspection said “the school has a tranquil and purposeful atmosphere, with a range of supported real life activities, such as crafts, gardening and visits to the farm,” and “the Steiner/Waldorf approach to education and care provides a rich and varied range of learning experience which is well monitored and supported.

  • The school provides an all-inclusive educational, therapeutic and friendly social environment all on the one site.

  • We offer a home life where the pupils learn a range of independence skills at their own pace.

  • We welcome pupils from all cultural backgrounds.

  • Our safe environment permits pupils to walk to school with minimum supervision.

  • Pupils go to town regularly and to a range of outside activities.

  • All staff know the pupils and the pupils know all staff.The pupils live and work within a peer group with whom they can make real friends.   

  • All pupils enjoy a good and healthy diet based on our additive free organic produce from our own fields and gardens.Pupils enjoy our large and peaceful estate, which is especially beneficial where hyper-sensitivity contributes to behavioural problems.

 

Learning disability often comes with emotional fragility or an inability to tolerate noise or crowds.   Many children cannot begin to learn until they feel containment and trust.  It isn’t enough to ‘bolt on’ support, no matter how many hours.  You can’t say: ‘Now we are going to do reading…’ if a child is too disturbed to sit still, let alone read a book.  Many of these children need a specialised environment where the whole child is addressed.  Without that behavioural problems emerge, born of confusion and isolation.”

Mary Pearson writing in YoungMinds Magazine 84, 2006

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