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Our School

Situated on a tranquil farm in Kent, ISP school provides specialist education for 7-16 year olds with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH), communication and interaction, cognition, and learning needs.

The school offers a safe, calm and nurturing learning environment in which pupils are supported to reach their potential. Our holistic, therapeutic approach promotes positive relationships, self- discipline, self-esteem, and resilience, enabling pupils to make excellent progress in line with their learning needs and individual starting points. We are attachment and trauma informed, so we work sensitively to enable pupils to feel safe, included within the school community, and attend regularly.

Pupils benefit from small, friendly classes – no more than 7 pupils per class – where Teachers and Progress Engagement Guides (PEGs) build trusting relationships, which form the basis for our way of working.

Our professional team acknowledges the uniqueness of each pupil by identifying individual strengths and needs and differentiating the curriculum accordingly.  

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Our Offer

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We aim to support children to achieve positive outcomes in relation to their ability. We teach a broad curriculum leading to external accreditation at GCSE level, where applicable. We enhance our curriculum with vocational qualifications such as functional skills in English and Maths, Entry Level Science, and AQA awards in Land-based studies and Food Technology. In addition to these enterprise-driven qualifications, Entry Level Employability Skills and City and Guilds Food and Hygiene awards are offered.

We work in a supportive environment that enables pupils to express themselves appropriately through the acquisition of key social communication skills. We expect pupils to develop an awareness of and consideration of others. This is developed in peer cooperation, a nurture group ethos and respect for the views of their friends. Pupils are regularly elected to the School Council to help shape school planning and ideas.

Our Staff

Our Qualified Teachers and Progress Engagement Guides make up the core of the team for the school, alongside this we have an inspirational Head Teacher with over 20 years in SEN, a Deputy Head who, as a foster carer himself, has years of experience working with challenging young people in a school setting and our strong leadership team includes Qualified Teachers, our soon to be qualified SENCo, the Director of Education and our Speech and Language Therapist.

The on-site Speech and Language Department consists of one consultant, who has an MPhil in communication and behavioural difficulties, has researched and published in this area and is a trained Video Interaction Guider and Supervisor. She is HCPC registered and a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Working with her are two assistants who have considerable training in SLCN and SEMH.

The Director of Education for the Group, who has 30 years’ experience in education, 20 of those with vulnerable children with complex needs, takes an active role in overseeing the whole provision

Our Governing Body is both robust and active in keeping the school moving forward, there has been considerable investment in the last 12 months that has resulted in the school getting a ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted and having a very healthy referral demand.

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