Two Rivers High School A GSG School
- Two Rivers High School
Torc Campus
Silver Link Road
Glascote Heath
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B77 2HJ - Head: Gail Brindley
- T 01827 426124
- F 01827 475697
- E Office.High@tworiversschool.net
- W www.tworiversschool.net
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 19 with a broad range of needs including learning difficulties and disabilities, physical disabilities, and autism.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Staffordshire
- Pupils: 244
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 1 Short inspection 22nd January 2019
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.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- Linked schools: Two Rivers Primary School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Students start in September with eggs - boiled, fried and scrambled - and then build their skills following the Jamie Oliver BTec basic cooking. This year they have moved from leek and potato soup through to chicken fajitas and Thai curry. 'I liked making curry at home,' one boy said. There are lots of small areas with corridor pods for children who need time out, and small break out rooms which can be used for one-to-one sessions. Brindley believes that if leavers do not have a suitable destination, the school has failed. Popular areas include woodwork, catering, office skills, gardening...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since January 2016, Gail Brindley. Formerly 18 years as a music teacher, and latterly nine years as director of music and deputy head of sixth form at Northampton High School, an independent selective school, Brindley moved to Two Rivers as a music and mathematics teacher and was promoted through head of year, data manager and assistant head.
Calm, approachable and unflappable, praised by one parent for her 'lovely smile and reassuring manner', it is easy to see why she was chosen against external competition to head the school.
Since her appointment Brindley has worked on creating more of a nurturing environment for students in years 7 and 8 to bridge the gap between primary and secondary. Now pupils spend more time with their form tutor. Those who can...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
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Special Education Needs
Two Rivers is a community school providing for pupils from two to nineteen years with a range of special educational needs including moderate and severe learning difficulties, sensory and physical impairments, emotional and behavioural difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders. The school was formed from the federation of Park and Quince schools and has a lower and upper site. The lower site comprises primary school, nursery and sixth form centre and has provision for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The upper site is the secondary school.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| 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 | |
| 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
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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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