Meath School A GSG School
- Meath School
Brox Road
Ottershaw
Chertsey
Surrey
KT16 0LF - Head: Ms Janet Dunn
- T 01932 872302
- F 01932 875180
- E [email protected]
- W www.meathschool.org.uk
- A special independent school for pupils aged from 5 to 11 with speech, language and communication needs including Asperger’s
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 57 (max 75)
- Religion: None
- Fees: Please contact the school
- Open days: Please contact the school
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 2
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 2
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 3rd March 2016
- 2 Full inspection 27th January 2011
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 25th January 2008
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Children may join school at any stage and part way through term, and Meath frequently throws a lifejacket to a child who has struggled in mainstream education. Head commented that often these children have had TAs at school, with one-to-one support, but are not equipped to join group activities. ‘That’s not inclusion,’ she says. Visual timetables and symbol support are prominent throughout the school, most especially in the lowest group, who clutch a travel-sized timetable wherever they go. Signing is ubiquitous...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2003, Ms Janet Dunn OBE MA PGCE (60s). Hails from Yorkshire, read modern languages at Edinburgh and always wanted to be a primary teacher. Strange but true journey into special needs – accidentally applied for a job at a school for visual impairment and hearing impairment and got hooked.
Joined children’s communication charity I CAN as a teacher in 1986, becoming deputy and then head of another I CAN school, before taking up post at Meath. Described by others as ‘an iron fist in a velvet glove,’ she is statuesque and lively and her enthusiasm for work belies her age. ‘I’ve done a job I absolutely love, how good can that be?’ she says. Still seems genuinely surprised by being awarded a gong in 2009. ‘I flicked through to...
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Special Education Needs
I CAN’s Meath School is a residential (weekly) and day school providing a multi-professional, integrated and collaborative approach to the teaching, therapy and care of children aged 4+-11 years, whose primary difficulty is speech, language and communication. Children with additional or associated difficulties including some degree of learning difficulty, attention control, fine and gross motor co ordination problems, mild visual or hearing impairments, and social interaction problems may also benefit from the provision. Ofsted inspectors commented that “The highly skilled and collaborative multidisciplinary team of staff, generates a very strong learning culture in which pupils thrive. It delivers outstanding care, support and guidance, which results in pupils feeling secure and helps them to achieve well. Pupils make very impressive progress in their ability to speak and communicate.” The school offers specialist practice and programmes (eg a signing environment, Cued Articulation, Alternative Augmentative Communication, visual supports) to enable full access to differentiated National Curriculum teaching via termly topic approach. Each class (average 10 children) has an allocated teacher, speech and language therapist and at least one learning support assistant. An occupational therapist and occupational therapy assistant support individual children, class activities and school-wide motor skills groups and sensory integration sessions. All staff are professionally qualified and experienced. Strong partnerships with parents/carers are vital to the success of pupils and families are encouraged to make observation visits to the school and to contribute to their child’s IEP targets. The school has a family liaison worker who can work with parents/carers in the home context. Meath School is housed in 3 fine Victorian buildings and the 7 acre site includes a modern teaching block, small swimming pool, sizeable school field, activity play areas and woodland. It is situated in the village of Ottershaw, near Woking and residential children are supported when attending local community activities. The school has a programme of after school activities for all pupils. Meath School is administered by I CAN, the charity that helps children communicate.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| 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 |
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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
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.
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