What we want to achieve….
A pattern of specialist provision is strategically planned on the basis of evidence of what is required now and in the future. This enables the needs of more children and young people with complex SEND to be met as close as possible to their home and local community.
Local Special Schools:
Learning difficulties (LD)
Middleton School (Primary), Ware (4 – 11)
Southfield School (Primary), Hatfield (4 – 11)
Woolgrove School (Primary), Letchworth (4 – 11)
Pinewood School (Secondary), Ware (11 – 16)
The Valley School (Secondary), Stevenage (11 – 16)
Severe learning difficulties (SLD)
Amwell View School, Ware (2 – 19)
Lakeside School, Welwyn Garden City (2 – 19)
Greenside School, Stevenage (2 – 19)
Physical and/or neurological impairment (PNI)
Lonsdale School, Stevenage (3 – 18)
Hearing impairments (HI)
Heathlands School, St Albans – Total Communication ages 2 – 16
Knightsfield School, Welwyn Garden City – Auditory Oral ages 10 – 18
Moss Bury Primary School, Stevenage (6 place HI specialist provision)
Social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH)
Larwood School, Stevenage – Primary (5 – 11) girls and boys
Batchwood School, St Albans – Secondary (11 – 16) girls and boys
Brandles School, Baldock – Secondary (11 – 16) boys
Hailey Hall School, Hoddesdon – Secondary (11 – 16) boys
Autism and/or social, emotional and mental health difficulties
Roman Fields School – Secondary (11 – 18) Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead