Roaches School A GSG School
- Roaches School
Tunstall Road
Knypersley
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST8 7AB - Head: Mr Matt Wilson
- T 01782 523479
- F 01782 511875
- E [email protected]
- W www.roachesschool.net
- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 7 to 16. Type of SEN provision: SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Staffordshire
- Pupils: 45
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Every class has 15 minutes a day of DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) where children listen to stories or read for themselves, everything from novels to tractor and Minecraft magazines. There's also 15 minutes of SUM (Stop Use Maths) which might cover games or matchstick geometry. Recently they enjoyed a match against a police team and also won a local schools tournament. One student is on a contract with Stoke City after being spotted by ...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Executive Principal
Since 2006, Matt Wilson. An old hand having been employed by the school since 1998. He started as a class teacher, was head of lower school, and then became executive headteacher. The school has been graded as outstanding three times and he recently worked for Ofsted for a year.
Wilson describes himself as, ‘a facilitator to help staff fulfil their huge ambitions for children' and says he would rather not place too much emphasis on titles in the school. He is currently devolving more responsibility to the three head teachers: Deb Jackson, a New Zealander who is head of upper school, Georgie Fletcher, head of middle school and responsible for quality assurance, and Nicky Woolley, head of lower school, who started as a teaching assistant and was sponsored by...
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Special Education Needs
Roaches is an independent school, part of Care Today, providing for pupils from seven to sixteen years who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The school is on a split site with lower and upper schools and a vocational unit. Residential care for upto 52 weeks is provided.
| 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 | Y |
| 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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