Doncaster School for the Deaf
- Doncaster School for the Deaf
Leger Way
Doncaster
South Yorkshire
DN2 6AY - Head: Ms Jane Goodman
- T 01302 386733
- F 01302 361808
- E enquiries@ddt-deaf.org.uk
- W www.deaf-trust.co.uk/school
- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 19. Type of SEN provision: HI - Hearing Impairment.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Doncaster
- Pupils: 34
- Religion: Does not apply
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 2
- Early years provision Good 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
- 1 Short inspection 27th September 2023
- 2 Full inspection 14th January 2015
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 19th June 2012
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
Doncaster School for the Deaf is a non-maintained day and boarding school for deaf children. Pupils access a full curriculum delivered by Teachers of the Deaf in small class groups. In addition, the school provides British Sign Language and Deaf Studies tuition, Speech and Language Therapy , Medical and Audiology services.
Ofsted recognise that the curriculum is well adapted to the needs of deaf pupils. Ofsted noted that the behaviour of pupils ,their attitude to learning and the school's work to keep pupils safe and secure is outstanding.
Pupils are admitted to the school at any point in their education and at different times during the school year. ...Read more
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Special Education Needs
The Good Schools Guide writes: Doncaster School for the Deaf is an independent special school catering for pupils with hearing impairments. Pupils may have additional needs including social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, moderate learning difficulties, visual impairment or physical disabilities. The school uses a bilingual approach, giving equal status to British Sign Language (BSL) and English. The school was inspected by OFSTED in June 2005 and placed in special measures.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
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Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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