At Oaklands we believe that all of our students can make outstanding progress. Our curriculum is designed to support young people to make progress, develop skills and become more independent. We work with parents to understand what the priorities are for each child, and we know that young people make the most progress when we work closely with families, so that we can both meet their needs and ensure that families always know what their child is doing in school and understand the progress they are making.

New Oaks is our primary school for 76 young people, located at our site in Woodlands Road, Isleworth. New Oaks reopened at Woodlands Road in 2020 following redevelopment of the building. We are currently meeting the needs of children in nursery through to year 6. The provision opened year by year and was fully opened in September 2023.

High Oaks is our 184 place secondary school which includes our 3-year sixth form programme. High Oaks is located in our purpose built building in Gresham Road, Hounslow.

We are proud of our success in meeting young people’s needs and are determined to continue to provide the best quality education to young people whose learning difficulties are severe or profound and autistic children who have severe learning difficulties. Our student’s needs are at the centre of all we do to prepare them for the most meaningful, independent and fulfilling lives possible.

• To provide each individual with a safe, stimulating, challenging, supportive learning environment.
• To promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, cognitive and physical development of all.
• To create a community in which each individual is valued and enabled to play a full part in school life.
• To enable each individual to maximise their potential to become confident learners.
• To develop effective communication skills.
• To help students to stay safe and learn to protect and to assert themselves.
• To ensure all students have access to a relevant broad and balanced curriculum designed to meet their personalised learning needs.
• To support parents/families through multi-agency work with all stakeholders.
• To encourage families to work in partnership with professionals, to the benefit of our students, and the work of the school.
• To provide inclusion opportunities at other schools and colleges.
• To prepare students for smooth transitions pre and post school.
• To promote healthy lifestyle choices to aid well-being.
• To follow Every Disabled Child Matters guidelines and facilitate equal opportunities for all.

At Oaklands we are always keen to hear from people who are interested in working in special education.   We are interested both in qualified candidates with recent relevant experience in similar environments and in candidates who are interested in developing skills to work with young people who have special needs. If we have no current vacancies we remain interested in hearing from you.

If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers.

Upon completing their apprenticeship, our staff can progress onto LSA or TA roles.

We would like to offer work experience placements to students interested in pursuing a career in special education and are always keen to hear from those wanting to volunteer in our school.

We invest in our staff and following is a selection of the training regularly on offer:    PECS,  Intensive Interation,  TEACCH,  Makaton,  Sensory,  ICT,  Safeguarding.

Apart from our brand new building, we also offer:

• Membership of Pension Scheme 

• Extensive CPD training programme for all staff

• Membership of Perkbox    (eg. discounted shopping/cinema tickets)

• Employee Assistance Programme (Counselling, information and support)

• Well-being and medical support

• Childcare voucher scheme

• Annual flu jab