Hillingdon Manor School opened in 1999 as an independent school to provide a tailored learning environment for children and young people with autism. Since opening its doors, Hillingdon Manor has continued to grow in population and now has over 190 pupils on roll.
Hillingdon Manor is an independent specialist school for children on the autistic spectrum between three and a half and nineteen years of age. Hillingdon Manor School strives to provide effective, specialist education and support to pupils with an autistic spectrum condition and their families, which will allow pupils to achieve their full potential in education and life.
Located over three sites for primary and secondary, the school offers a unique mix of education and support to pupils within a wide spectrum of needs and abilities. Personalized teaching and learning within an autistic specific environment allows pupils’ individual needs to be addressed completely and their capabilities fully realized
Our school provides a setting for pupils to access an enriching curriculum, designed to enhance daily-living skills and increase life opportunities. As well as specially trained teachers, our school benefits from full-time on-site speech and language therapists and occupational therapists, with access to a range of interventions such as drama and music therapy and clinical psychology.
At the very core of our work lies a multi-disciplinary approach by which teachers and therapists are infrequent liaisons. Classes are small in number with a high staff to pupil ratio. A significant number of our pupils go on to take GCSE or college courses.
We strive to support pupils grow in confidence and to develop a sense of identity through an environment that embraces uniqueness and promotes equality for all.
Hillingdon Manor School actively promotes British Values of democracy, rule of law, and the rights of the individual in the context of the tolerant and diverse society of modern Britain. We ensure that respect for both criminal and civil law is embedded in the curriculum and explicitly taught as part of the life skill of distinguishing right from wrong. Hillingdon Manor School promotes principles that provide students with a broad general knowledge of public services, public institutions, and the voluntary sector in England.
Our strong emphasis on visual supports and displays creates a purposeful learning environment and computer programs such as Widget and Boardmaker support this. Every class has a visual timetable and the interactive learning board outlines the structure of each lesson, the key language, and the behavior that is expected. Pupils have access to pads to support learning. Structured approaches are also used which include: Picture Exchange Communication System, TEACCH, and Makaton.
At Hillingdon Manor School, we aim to provide a broad and balanced education for all the children within a happy, stimulating, and healthy environment and we want each child to achieve the best he or she can. We have excellent teachers, teaching assistants, therapists, office staff, and site managers who all work as part of a very close team. Our Governing Body plays an essential role in the development and success of the school. Parents work with us in partnership and we have a strong sense of community. Children come to us from seventeen different Local Authorities in London and the Home counties and we continue to build partnerships with agencies to ensure all our pupils have the best start in life.
We value the importance of celebrating achievement to build children’s self-esteem. Our Weekly Star of the Week assemblies is used formally to celebrate the children’s achievements both inside and outside of school. Parents are welcome to join us in our sharing Assemblies throughout the year. Each class group has been named after lines from the London underground as a result of discussions from a previous school council. The school council, Eco-Council, and Eco-Warriors represent pupil’s views and meet regularly. Pupil's voice is an important part of school life and their ideas are discussed and acted upon. We have reward systems in place that encourages positive behavior and children work towards going on reward trips at the end of each term and ‘Golden time’ on Friday afternoons. During our end-of-year assembly, all pupils are awarded for their achievements across the year.
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