Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley A GSG School
- Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley
Stoke Road
Hinckley
Leicestershire
LE10 0EA - Head: Kelly Dryden
- T 01455 634582
- F 01455 613667
- E office@dorothygoodman.leics.sch.uk
- W www.openthinki…chool/dgs-hajc/
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 3 to 19. Type of SEN provision: MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Leicestershire
- Pupils: 387
- Religion: Does not apply
- Open days: Contact school for office
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Early years provision Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 25th October 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
One charmingly keen-to-learn young man was particularly absorbed with the idea of marriage. Did we have a husband? he wanted to know. Before we were able to answer, the deputy head neatly stepped in and steered him away from the subject, suggesting that the question was a bit personal. Undeterred, the young man carried on chatting for a bit, before leaning in close and whispering, ‘Does your husband have a car?’...
What the school says...
We are an area special school, providing education for children who have learning difficulties, across the whole range. We are located in the heart of mainstream provision, although we remain a separate special school. This allows us to run a successful programme of inclusion links with local schools. A strong feature of our school is the high level of staffing, which provides our pupils with the individual support that they need. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2021, Ms Kelly Dryden
Entrance
Children come from as far as Whitwick, about an hour’s drive away. New students usually need an EHCP but one or two a year come on an assessment basis.
A school for Learning difficulties (PMLD, SLD, MLD), Physical Disabilities, autism, multi-sensory impairment and interaction needs. It does not support students whose primary difficulties are emotional and behavioural, but is prepared to take those with challenging behaviour, including some physical and verbal aggression, when it presents as part of another condition. In addition the school is a satellite base for specialist classes in mainstream schools.
School oversubscribed, so your child might have to wait until the next academic year for a place, but if you live within the catchment area and their needs profile fits,...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
An area special school for pupils with learning difficulties.
| 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 | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| 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.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
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.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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