Spa School, Bermondsey A GSG School
- Spa School, Bermondsey
Monnow Road
London
SE1 5RN - Head: Mr Simon Eccles
- T 020 7237 3714
- F 020 7237 6601
- E office@spa-education.org
- W www.spa-education.org/
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 19. Type of SEN provision: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Southwark
- Pupils: 100
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 1 Short inspection 18th January 2023
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.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The pupils’ needs lead the teaching and organisation, rather than the other way round. Parents said, ‘It is really inclusive, no child is left out, they all do the same lesson but at different levels’. Food tech in dedicated and well-equipped kitchen where we saw pupils tucking into chicken pizzas that they had made. This is a weekly class for the whole school as it also helps to encourage independence - how to use a knife, how to make a hot drink.Older pupils also gain work experience in the attached School House Café...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2006, Simon Eccles (50s). He has developed this school in a quiet and gentle way, making it a haven of calm for pupils with a diagnosis of autism. It has grown in size since he has been there, and a new sister school in Camberwell has recently opened. He trained in Australia (primary diploma in teaching) and then moved to the UK where he first taught at a primary school in Tower Hamlets, working with children with EBD while studying for an MA in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. These developed his interest in special needs and autism and he worked for four years at Bridge House, a state school in Islington, where he ended up heading the autism provision in Islington. In order to develop what was becoming his specialist area...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Spa School is a community special school providing for pupils from eleven to nineteen years who have autistic spectrum disorders.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| 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 | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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.
Children get into the school from here:
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sometimes, but not in this year
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