The Old Park School
- The Old Park School
Thorns Road
Brierley Hill
West Midlands
DY5 2JY - Head: Miss Jodie Colbourne
- T 01384 818905
- F 01384 818906
- E [email protected]
- W www.oldpark.org
- A state special school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 19. Type of SEN provision: SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Dudley
- Pupils: 153
- Religion: Does not apply
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 9th May 2024
- 2 Full inspection 25th September 2013
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: Outstanding on 21st September 2010
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
This is not currently a GSG-reviewed school.
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Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
The Good Schools Guide writes: Old Park is a community special school which, caters for pupils with severe, or profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and with autism or communication disorders. Pupils follow the national curriculum supported by speech therapy, physiotherapy, swimming, and multi-sensory experiences. Makaton signing is used throughout the school to support language development, with some pupils using technological aids to support communication. Older children have the opportunity to pursue college link courses. Post 16 students work within national vocational courses, such as ASDAN, Towards Independence, OCR National Skills Profile, Numberpower and Wordpower. All pupils have a statement of special educational needs. When the school was inspected in March 2004, it was placed in special measures, but removed from them following re-inspection in November 2005.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| 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 |
| 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
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infrequently
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