Priory Education and Children’s Services aims to make a real and lasting difference in young people’s lives through quality education, care, and health solutions leading to the very best individual outcomes. Our teams' expertise provides individuals who have experienced difficulties in mainstream or existing specialist settings, with the chance to fulfill their potential and be well-prepared for adult life.
We aim to deliver high-quality, long-term solutions for young people in need of specialist support, including those who face the most challenging difficulties with highly complex needs. We support young people with autism, with emotional, behavioral, or mental health difficulties, and also specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia. Whatever an individual’s needs, our schools, colleges, and children's homes offer stable placements to help young people develop their education, social, and independence skills so they can fulfill their potential. Priory Lodge School’s Mission Statement is to Enabling pupils to become successful learners, responsible citizens, and confident individuals.
The Priory Lodge School is a co-educational, purpose-built day school in South West London for young people aged 9 to 19 with mild to moderate autism, Asperger syndrome, and associated learning difficulties including ADHD, ODD, OCD, and clinical anxiety/depression.
We offer a stimulating and enriched education for older primary and secondary pupils, covering entry levels, GCSEs, BTEC options, and, at post-16, some A levels. In addition, we enable students to develop life and independent living skills.
The school incorporates two sites: The main school and a hospital CAMHS unit. Both sites share a vision to reflect our Mission Statement ‘Enabling pupils to become successful learners, responsible citizens, and confident individuals, we work with passion and dedication to making a real impact on improving the lives of our pupils and their families.
we offer a nationwide network of services, meaning a high-quality education and care placement can be offered locally. Proven experience in delivering first-class residential care. Exceptional and quality outcomes demonstrating the lasting value of placements. A broad and balanced curriculum, including vocational routes into sustainable employment. Nationally recognized qualifications and accreditations. Onward pathways across the Priory Group into further education or supported living if required. Some of the UK’s leading experts in working with young people with autism and challenging behaviors. Modern, well-equipped facilities, designed to meet students’ holistic needs.
We identify and provide the specialist support a young person needs to re-engage with learning and work towards their future aspirations. In 2015, 98.4% of our leavers successfully moved onto employment, education, training, and/or planned onward residential care pathways.
We provide safe, nurturing environments where students from around the world can access a first-class British education. Set in stunning locations, our schools and colleges offer international students the chance to follow a well-rounded curriculum and achieve UK qualifications and accreditations.
Our helpful Local Offer guides are specifically designed to provide you with all the key information about Priory schools and colleges. They look at everything from how our staff supports young people, to the ways we prepare them for their next step, whether this is education or independent living.
Priory provides expert specialist education for young people aged 5 to 25 with a range of conditions and special education needs, including autism and social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) difficulties, through our extensive network of schools, further education colleges, and partnerships with NHS child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) units.
With an absolute focus upon achieving the very best outcomes, our schools and colleges support young people with special educational needs to fulfill their unique potential through:
- Safe and nurturing educational environments that meet the full range of young people’s needs.
- Tailored curriculums geared around a deep understanding of young people’s challenges.
- Bespoke access to social skills programs.
- Well-equipped education and therapeutic facilities.
- Pathways that tackle the difficult transitional journeys from childhood to adulthood.
Priory schools and colleges have a reputation for excellence in dealing with autism and challenging behavior, as reflected by our Ofsted, Estyn & CQC judgments. Priory’s regulatory outcomes significantly outperform national sector performance data with many of our services achieving the very highest accolade from regulators of ‘Outstanding’.
The wide geographic spread of our schools and colleges allows us to provide local placements that meet young people’s unique education needs. Students can maintain relationships and links within their local community, in turn maximizing their chance of a smooth and successful placement.
Whether a student wants to progress to university or move into employment, we will support them in pursuing their ambition. Our schools and colleges offer a broad curriculum, with the choice of both academic and vocational courses in a variety of subjects, including Accounting, Agriculture, Animal Care, Archaeology, Art, Biology, Catering, Chemistry, Construction, Drama, Engineering, English, Forestry, Graphics, Health, and Social Care. Law, Mathematics, Motor Vehicle Maintenance, Music, Physics, Politics, Retail, Sociology, and Textiles. We support students to study towards a variety of national accreditations and qualifications, including, level certificates, ASDAN qualifications, BTECs, GCSEs, AS-Levels, and A-Levels.
ll young people at our schools and colleges are engaged in independence programs. We provide therapeutic and supportive environments which help students achieve their academic, independence, and social goals so that they can become successful adults.
Outcomes that change lives, A Priory education delivers lasting value, helping young people to achieve outstanding outcomes and reach their potential. In 2015 98.4% of leavers successfully moved onto employment, education, training, and/or planned onward residential care pathways. 94% of students gained one or more GSCE at A* - G at sites where students were entered for GCSEs.
Priory Fostering Services provides high-quality, stable foster care placements in warm and welcoming family homes in the West Midlands and South West of England for:
- Children and young people up to the age of 18
- Sibling groups (brothers and sisters)
- Parent and child placements
- Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
By delivering a comprehensive package of support, we help vulnerable children unlock their potential and face their adult lives with confidence and a sense of worth. We believe that all children and young people have the right to grow up in a safe, supportive, and loving family. Our foster carers provide the right environment and levels of support to make a real and lasting difference in children’s lives. Together, we help young people develop a strong sense of identity, pursue a range of hobbies and interests and reach their full potential.
Fostering is looking after a child or young person in your home and caring for them whilst their parents are unable to do so. Our approved foster carers provide a warm and safe home so that children can recover and thrive. We are driven by a passion to support young people in a way that best suits their individual needs and circumstances. Children and young people in foster care need to experience normal family life. As a foster carer, you will provide a stable family environment, nurturing and guiding young people to unlock their unique potential, and equipping them for a brighter future.
There are several reasons why a child or young person may not be able to live with their own families, such as bereavement, illness, or family breakdown. In some cases, a child may be removed from the family home for their safety. Their local authority then becomes responsible for their welfare and they become a ‘looked after child.
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