Selly Oak Trust School A GSG School
- Selly Oak Trust School
Oak Tree Lane
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6HZ - Head: Ms Julie Eaton
- T 01214 720876
- F 01214 152674
- E enquiry@sellyoak.bham.sch.uk
- W www.sellyoak.bham.sch.uk
- A special state school for pupils aged from 9 to 19 with moderate to severe learning difficulties, autism, speech and language difficulties and behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Birmingham
- Pupils: 392, two-thirds boys; all day; sixth formers: 93
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 16th November 2022
- 2 Full inspection 6th June 2017
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: Good on 19th November 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
School focuses more on what’s going on underneath their hair than on top. No gang-affiliated tattoos allowed on their heads, but shocking-pink dos are fine. Restorative approach to relationships within school, combining anger control, moral reasoning and social skills, with six staff members trained as ART (aggression replacement training) coordinators. School closes at three o’clock rather than half past to reduce costs. Most parents seem to understand, realising ...
What the school says...
Selly Oak School is an extremely effective secondary special school offering a proper and complete education for pupils with a wide range of learning difficulties. We are an inclusive educational community where a child is valued, extended and developed.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Julie Eaton
Entrance
Must have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Academic qualifications not required for sixth form. No waiting, unless there’s not an appropriate place for your child’s individual needs. Most come from south Birmingham, a few from the other side of the city, and five or six from neighbouring authorities Sandwell and Worcester.
Wouldn’t suit those who need a small, quiet environment, as it’s a busy school, especially at lesson changeovers when there might be 200 students milling around the corridors. Doesn’t cater for those with significant behavioural challenges that may compromise other students’ safety.
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Special Education Needs
Selly Oak School is an extremely effective secondary special school offering a proper and complete education for pupils with a wide range of learning difficulties including moderate and severe learning difficulties. Additionally pupils may have complex needs including speech/communication difficulties, sensory impairment and autistic spectrum disorders often with behavioural social and emotional difficulties. The majority of pupils have a Statement of Special Educational Need. We are an inclusive educational community where a child is valued, extended and developed. Selly Oak was one of Ofsted's particularly successful schools in 2004/5.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | Y |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | Y |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | Y |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| 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 | 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.
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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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