Horton Lodge Community Special School
- Horton Lodge Community Special School
Rudyard
Leek
Staffordshire
ST13 8RB - Head: Lucy Bloor
- T 01538 306214
- F 01538 306006
- E headteacher@horto…odge.staffs.sch.uk
- W www.hortonlodge.staffs.sch.uk
- A special state school for pupils aged from 2 to 11 with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, and communication difficulties
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Staffordshire
- Pupils: 54
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: Phone for personal appointment
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
- 1 Short inspection 24th January 2024
- 2 Full inspection 13th February 2013
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: Outstanding on 15th January 2008
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
Horton Lodge Community Special School offers Conductive Education across the school. Fully qualified conductor/teachers lead each class/department in school. The school has received two excellent OFSTED reports and offers a high quality differentiated curriculum to all pupils.
This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.
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Special Education Needs
We are a primary special school for pupils with physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties. We use Conductive Education to promote active learning for all the pupils; all teachers in the school are fully qualified Conductor Teachers. The school is a Key Learning Centre and provides support for many pupils with physical disabilities who are in mainstream schools. In addition to this we support the transition of pupils from Horton Lodge into their mainstream school if and when appropriate.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| 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
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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