New Siblands School A GSG School
- New Siblands School
Easton Hill Road
Thornbury
Bristol
BS35 2JU - Head: Karl Hemmings
- T 01454 866754
- F 01454 866759
- E [email protected]
- W www.newsiblands.org.uk/
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 2 to 19. Type of SEN provision: SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: South Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 127
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 27th February 2024
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
As well as motor skills activities and games, pupils can take up horse riding and dance. One class had been whizzing round in go-karts in the playground during their last PE session. If the theme is cooking Italian food, then those with moderate needs may go to Tesco, buy the food and cook an Italian meal. For those with more profound difficulties, the session will be spent exploring Italian food, touching it, smelling it, and tasting it. The results speak for themselves; overall progress in speaking, listening, reading, writing and maths is outstanding ...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2022 Karl Hemmings, previously headteacher at Emersons Green Primary School.
Entrance
All pupils have EHCPs and all have severe learning difficulties. Some have profound and multiple learning difficulties, as well as medical needs. A third of pupils are on the autism spectrum.
Catchment area covers the whole of south Gloucestershire, very few children are from outside the county. Some families have relocated, even from abroad so their children can go to New Siblands. Applications through LA, essential to have an ECHP.
Transition is carefully planned. One family explained, ‘The school allowed us to introduce her gradually as she had not been to any childcare/nursery beforehand and we were a little apprehensive. We started by bringing her in a couple of half days a week, working up to most days,...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The Good Schools Guide writes: New Siblands is a purpose based school for pupils who have exceptional needs including severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties. The school has very good disabled access througout. There are 6 classrooms, a Resource base, a comprehensive library, an 'Elliot' classroom for Secondary children a Post 16 classroom and landscaped gardens. The school is surrounded by extensive play areas that extend the children's learning and allows them to develop their motor skills. All children follow the national curriculum, using a multi-sensory approach to learning, with P levels informing assessment and target setting as appropriate.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| 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 | Y |
| 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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