Calder House School A GSG School
- Calder House School
Thickwood Lane
Colerne
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN14 8BN - Head: Mrs Karen Parsons
- T 01225 743566
- F 01225 742329
- E [email protected]
- W www.calderhouseschool.co.uk
- A special independent school for pupils aged from 5 to 12 with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Wiltshire
- Pupils: 44 (31 boys, 13 girls)
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £17,250 pa
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Set deep in Wodehouse country, in the charming village of Colerne (you half expect there to be livestock on the village green), the school is a converted coach house with paddock for playground. For the budding farmer there are vegetable beds with radishes, potatoes and a herb plot, while in the founders’ garden a hen coop allows the children a chance to watch eggs hatching in the spring. The school obviously makes a big effort to foster good relations with staff and children. ‘Going home is the worst thing,’ moaned one boy. ‘I wish it was a boarding school.'
What the school says...
Calder House provides dyslexic children with a nurturing 'whole school' specialist teaching environment. It is suitable for children who are underachieving in mainstream schools because of a specific learning difficulty like dyslexia, dyspraxia or dyscalculia. Calder House has a proven track record of successful return to mainstream schools within three years and is a supporting member of the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyspraxia Foundation. It is fully registered with CReSTeD. Our amazing results year on year speak for themselves. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since September 2015, Mrs Karen Parsons, previously deputy head of the Royal High Junior School, Bath, where she was also head of maths. She was educated at Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth and Westminster College, Oxford where she read maths with computing, and pursued her passion for amateur dramatics and all things musical. These days she relaxes by singing with the Wiltshire Wailers and enjoys her book club, playing the piano, swimming, walking in the stunning Somerset countryside where she lives, and watercolour painting. She is married to Chris, a former captain in the Royal Navy. They have three grown-up sons.
Entrance
A day-long assessment which includes cognitive and learning tests, as well as maths and literacy, carried out by director of studies and specialist teaching staff; ‘We will only take children we can make...
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Special Education Needs
Calder House School provides a 'whole school' learning environment for pupils who, in mainstream education, have been unable to achieve their full potential. Every child has an individual learning programme tailored to deliver the support required. Pupils access the full National Curriculum so that they will have missed nothing when they return to mainstream education. Our team of specialist teachers is augmented by our speech and language therapist and occupational therapist so that difficulties with for example working memory, handwriting and the like can be addressed by skilled professionals in collaboration with their specialist teaching colleagues. We have a maximum class size of 8 and a staff pupil ratio of 1:4 or better. Pupils are carefully timetabled for their 1:1 individual support sessions to ensure that class teaching is not missed. Our literacy and numeracy lessons are arranged so that pupils start from their current skill level irrespective of chronological age. Progress is kept under constant review. The multi-discipline collaborative teaching environment is demonstrably effective in promoting pupil progress. Above all we are a happy school, where children are encouraged to value themselves and trust their teachers. Our fees are all-inclusive. Our pupils are usually ready to return to mainstream within three years of joining us: and our leavers keep in touch to tell us of their successes - including first class degrees. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| 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 | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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