Rugeley School A GSG School
- Rugeley School
Blithbury Road
Blithbury
Rugeley
Staffordshire
WS15 3JQ - Head: Charlie Rivers
- T 01889 504400
- F 01889 504010
- E rugeleyhorizon@priorygroup.com
- W www.priorygrou…-school-staffo
- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 19 with autism.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Staffordshire
- Pupils: 41; sixth formers: 19
- Religion: Not Applicable
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What The Good Schools Guide says..
Whatever a child is doing, it is planned with the curriculum in mind. Mr Rivers says. ‘Nothing should take place without a reason behind it. Nobody gets on the bus, walks across the playground, even has five minutes downtime in class without a reason.’ There’s a warmth about the place. Students seem happily engaged in what they are doing, whether they’re busy making brightly coloured face masks, or engaging in one-to-one sensory work. A wonderful smell of freshly cooked food wafts through the corridors. It’s nearly…
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Head
Since 2015, Mr Charlie Rivers. Clean shaven, dressed in a smart suit and full of bounce. Walking round, it’s clear that he knows all the children and that they know and like him. One high fives him, another greets him with an imaginative comment about his nose.
Started out teaching at Huntington County Primary in 1989. Felt mainstream was not for him, so in 1991 moved to Saxon Hill, a special school in Lichfield, which ‘absolutely lit the blue touch paper’, he says. In 2003, he went to work for Staffordshire LEA as an SEN advisor, then was promoted to management role in improving standards. Spent a year as deputy head at Horton Lodge, a primary school for children with complex medical difficulties, where conductive education was the approach used...
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Special Education Needs
Horizon School is an independent school and part of the Priory Group, an independent provider of acute and severe mental health, neuro-rehabilitation and specialist education services. The school caters for day and residential pupils from four to nineteen years who have autism.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| Aspergers Syndrome [archived] | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders [archived] | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Delicate Medical Problems [archived] | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Epilepsy [archived] | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | Y |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| Not Applicable | |
| 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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