Lakeside School A GSG School
- Lakeside School
Naylors Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L27 2YA - Head: Mrs Victoria Size
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- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 11. Type of SEN provision: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication; SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Liverpool
- Pupils: 29
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
One student who has ASD and attachment disorder, struggles with hand-written work. She learned language, sentence structure and vocab on the iPad and, when she was ready, they slowly introduced handwriting. ‘They took away the stress and built her confidence and now she’s writing pages and pages. I burst into tears ...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2006, Mrs Vicky Size, 40s. Practical and down to earth, she started her working life as a waitress and childminder. Having always wanted to work with children she took a year out after school to volunteer in a special needs nursery. Then worked as NQT at mainstream Hale C of E Primary, where she felt particularly drawn to the children who struggled and had the most barriers to overcome. Spent a couple of years teaching in mainstream Wolverhampton Primary School, then worked in their SEMH unit, staying there for two-and-a-half years. Moved to Lakeside in 2003, promoted to deputy head in January 2004, then acting head in November the same year, when the head became poorly. After the previous head passed away, Mrs Size was promoted to the role at the age of...
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Special Education Needs
Lakeside is an independent day school providing for pupils from five to 11 years with complex communication and learning difficulties and associated anxieties and behaviours. The school has been judged as 'Outstanding' in its last three Ofsted inspections (2010, 2014, 2017).
| 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 | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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