The aim of Ashmount School is to provide education for pupils with special educational needs. The highly specialised provision is available to those pupils that through the process of assessment are recognised as needing more help than that available in other schools.

We moved to a brand new school in the Thorpe Acre area of Loughborough in January 2014 to allow us to increase our student numbers and provide ideal facilities in a purpose built campus environment within Charnwood College.

Characteristics of the provision made would include higher staffing ratios, a multi-disciplinary team, working in close co-operation with parents, involvement of the educational psychologist, specialist teachers and therapists. 

The work of the school is comprehensively supported by a range of services within the Children and Young Peoples Services Department, e.g. specialist teachers in sensory impairment and teachers from the Autism Outreach service. A significant feature of provision is the multi-disciplinary approach and inter-disciplinary working between all those working with children at the school.

Review of provision is made by students, parents, staff, the LA and governors through a variety of means including Personal Development Programmes, annual reports, reviews of Education, Health and Care Plans, curriculum review and ongoing monitoring.

If you would like to see detailed information on student progress and Key Stage attainment the school has an Achievement and Progress report which we would be pleased to discuss with you. The government publishes school performance tables and other information on school progress on its website at www.education.gov.uk. for more detailed information you may wish to look at www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/ .  However our own statistics provide more detailed 'small step' progress reports and these are discussed with parents at annual review meetings and other reporting occasions.

Admission of pupils to the school is through an Education, Health and Care Plan or for assessment. Pupils will be admitted from Loughborough and the surrounding areas as directed by the Special Education Needs Assessment Service at County Hall. All pupils will have special educational needs or learning difficulties. Further information on admissions can be found via the Leicestershire County Council website at www.leics.gov.uk

The school building contains ten teaching areas all with toilets and changing facilities.

Additionally the pupils benefit from the following:

• Cookery room with special adjustable fitments

• Multisensory room with equipment and technology for assisting children with sensory       impairments

• Swimming pool - a one metre deep pool kept at a warm temperature to encourage and   develop confidence in water

• Small hall used for gymnastics, physical education, music and as a dining room at         lunchtime

• Good flat tarmac playgrounds with appropriate equipment, a sensory garden, gardens and      a cycle track.

•Medical room

• School offices - Children take registers and dinner information to our well-equipped office,      this encourages independence and communication

• Soft play area

• Computers and interactive whiteboards are available in all class area

• Library

Ashmount is fortunate to have access to three minibuses, and a people carrier. The minibuses are equipped to carry wheelchair passengers.

Our Headteacher is David Deacon and our Deputy Headteacher is Abi Steady.

To provide the highest quality education we will;

· Keep pupils at the heart of everything we do

· Have a relentless focus on Teaching and Learning

· Maintain a total communication environment

· Promote an inclusive, happy, safe, healthy learning culture and environment

· Value, develop and reward all of our staff – they are our greatest resource

· Promote and develop links with families and relationships outside school which extend our core values

· Constantly self-evaluate and act on the outcomes

· Never stop moving forward

· Set the very highest standards in all that we do

Ashmount & Encompass Alliance

Who are we?

Loughborough based Ashmount Learning Alliance is a School Direct ITT partnership working with The University of Derby to train high quality primary, secondary and special educational needs teachers. Ashmount School is our lead school and is designated as a National Teaching School. It has a strong track record in terms of DfE data in the employability of its trainees – its statistics are amongst the best in the sector. Many former trainees now work as mentors with our current trainees.  

 Ashmount Learning Alliance is guided in its work by a strategic management committee comprising headteachers with extensive ITT experience. The original mission statement for  Loughborough Encompass Partnership  was ‘To train high quality primary phase teachers by recruiting the highest quality candidates available enabling them to achieve their full potential as newly trained teachers through training involving high quality partnership schools and a high quality central training  based programme all under the active management of a committed provider...’ The currency of that aspiration remains as the partnership seeks to move forward through the School Direct scheme.

 What the Alliance Offers:

• established expertise in training successful primary teachers;
• a strong personal tutoring system;
• the benefits of a small tightly led and administered organisation;
• academic and professional education and training from an outstanding university provider;
• access to a range of good and outstanding  schools with extensive ITT experience in the East Midlands;
• placements in two contrasting contexts;
• placements in Special Schools;
•  the opportunity to gain academic awards – QTS and PGCE .

Links to our HEI Partner

University of Derby

Ashmount School is considered to be an Outstanding school by Ofsted

At present there are several groups of schools that we are linked with:

1. Our specialist partner schools - see the Specialism tab
2. Our partner schools in the Loughborough Learning Alliance.
3. Our fellow Area Special Schools in Leicestershire.

We intend to develop areas for each of these groups and links showing the work we share.