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Schools in Doncaster
Below is a list of schools in Doncaster and links to their websites. Read about how each school identifies and supports children with special educational needs in their setting (their contribution to the Local Offer).
Infant Schools
School | Area |
Askern Moss Road Infant Academy | Askern |
Askern Littlemoor Infant Academy | Askern |
Grange Lane Infant Academy | New Rossington |
Kirk Sandall Infant School | Kirk Sandall |
Norton Infant School | Norton |
Rossington Tornedale Infant School | New Rossington |
Rowena Academy | Conisbrough |
Scawsby Saltersgate Infant School | Scawsby |
Sprotbrough Orchard Infant School | Sprotbrough |
Primary Schools
Junior Schools
School | Area |
Copley Junior School | Sprotbrough |
Kirk Sandall Junior School | Kirk Sandall |
Morley Place Academy | Conisbrough |
Norton Junior School | Norton |
Pheasant Bank Academy | New Rossington |
Scawsby Saltersgate Junior School | Scawsby |
Spa Academy Askern | Askern |
Secondary Schools
School | Area |
Armthorpe Academy | Armthorpe |
Ash Hill Academy | Hatfield |
Astrea Academy Woodfields | Balby |
Campsmount Academy | Norton |
De Warenne Academy | Conisbrough |
Don Valley Academy | Scawthorpe |
Hall Cross Academy Lower School | Bessacarr |
Hall Cross Academy Upper School | Doncaster |
Hungerhill School | Edenthorpe |
Laurel Academy | Mexborough |
Outwood Academy Adwick | Woodlands |
Outwood Academy Danum | Intake |
Ridgewood School | Scawsby |
Rossington All Saints Academy | New Rossington |
Sir Thomas Wharton Academy | Edlington |
The Hayfield School | Auckley |
The McAuley Catholic High School | Doncaster |
Trinity Academy | Thorne |
Xp School | Balby |
Independent Schools
School | Area |
Balby Sycamore Hall School | Balby |
Doncaster School for the Deaf and Communication Specialist College | Bennetthorpe |
Hill House. School | Auckley |
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A Parents Guide to School Inspections
The leaflet gives information on why, how long and when Ofsted inspects, and also how parents and carers can share their views.
It applies to:
- all maintained schools including special schools and pupil referral units
- academies
- city technology colleges
- city colleges for the technology of the arts
- some non-maintained special schools in England
Special Schools within Doncaster
Some children have long term, significant and complex needs and will require an Education, Health and Care Plan specifying a specialist placement within one of Doncaster’s special schools. To meet this level of exceptional need the Local Authority (LA) maintains 5 special schools. In addition to the 5 special schools maintained by the LA, Nexus Multi-Academy Trust runs the new Special School in Doncaster, Bader Academy.
School | Specialises In | Age Range | Telephone |
Bader Academy | Communication and Interaction | 5 - 19 years | 01302 433003 |
Coppice School | Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Severe Learning Difficulty (SLD) | 3 - 19 years | 01302 844883 |
Heatherwood School | Severe Learning Difficulty (SLD) Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty (PMLD) | 3 - 19 years | 01302 322044 |
North Ridge School | Severe Learning Difficulty (SLD) | 3 - 19 years | 01302 720790 |
Pennine View School | Moderate Learning Difficulty (MLD) | 7 - 16 years | 01709 864978 |
Stone Hill School | Moderate Learning Difficulty (MLD) | 5 - 16 years | 01302 800090 |
Specialist Outreach Support from Special Schools
- Severe Learning Difficulties and P Levels from North Ridge
- Moderate Learning Difficulties from Pennine View
- Autism Spectrum Condition from Stonehill
- Physical Difficulties and Access from Heatherwood
- Serve Learning Difficulties and complex autism from Coppice
Independent and Non-maintained Special Schools
The Department for Education's (DfE) list of approved independent special schools, non-maintained special schools and post 16 institution providers is known as Section 41.If a child’s parent or a young person makes a request for a particular nursery, school or post-16 institution in these groups the local authority must comply with that preference and name the school or college in the EHC plan unless:
- it would be unsuitable for the age, ability, aptitude or SEN of the child or young person, or
- the attendance of the child or young person there would be incompatible with the efficient education of others, or the efficient use of resources.
Doncaster School for the Deaf
Doncaster School for the Deaf is a non-maintained day and boarding school for deaf children from the ages 4-19 years.
Our pupils access a full curriculum delivered by Teachers of the Deaf in small class groups. In addition, we provide British Sign Language and Deaf Studies tuition, Speech and Language Therapy, Medical and Audiology services.
The school has bright modern classrooms and excellent sports facilities including an indoor heated swimming pool.
We develop pupil communication skills including British Sign Language (BSL), Sign Supported English (SSE) or spoken English enabling them to develop internalised language and effective thought processes. Languages and cultures of both Deaf and Hearing communities are valued and respected.
Please visit the schools website or contact us directly for further information or to arrange a visit.
Tel: 01302 386733
Email: jgoodman@ddt-deaf.org.uk
Communication Specialist College - Doncaster
Communication Specialist College is a leading national vocational specialist college. We offer a wide range of programmes for students with communication needs which include Deafness/Hearing Impairment, Autistic Spectrum Condition and Learning Disabilities and Difficulties.
There are a range of courses for those who want to gain job and life–related qualifications and for those who need to gain independence and develop their social skills. We cater for all abilities and learning styles, offering pathways to suit every ambition. Our work pathway provides a distinctive, industry-focused learning environment for students who aim to enter employment whilst our life pathway and living pathway are designed to maximize personal and social development.
Tel: 01302 386700
Email: admissions@cscd.ac.uk
Alternative Provision
Alternative Provision settings are places that provide education for children who can’t go to a mainstream school.
Doncaster Council arrange education for pupils who, because of exclusion, illness or other reasons, would not otherwise receive suitable education. Schools will arrange education for pupils to improve their behaviour at an off-site location
On our journey to becoming the most child friendly borough in the country, and in line with the recommendations and themes identified in the One Doncaster Report and the Children and Young People’s Plan (2017-2020), Doncaster Council has a very strong commitment to ensuring that we are well positioned to provide an inclusive education system for all children and young people, including those with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH).
In order to effectively fulfil our responsibilities and to make sure that the provision we offer is responsive to pupils’ individual learning styles and aspirations, we embrace innovation. This means that we commission a diverse range of specialist provision in and around the local area.
A range of services will be offered within the packages to cater for children and young people who have specified additional needs relating to high risk, children with medical and mental health needs, children who can’t cope with a full-time curriculum, children missing in education, learners who find themselves marginalised from conventional schools because of their behaviour or other challenges (including Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs (SEMH), children who are needing complementary work to reengage back into the community/school settings and school phobic children.
Learners may need to access specialist alternative education provision when:
- They need support to reengage with their learning
- They need support to re-integrate into a mainstream setting
- They need a specialist assessment of need relating to SEMH and/or episodes of challenging behaviour
- They require a specialised or bespoke education offer which may include alternative education
- They are unable to access full time, mainstream education for any clearly identified reason within the scope of the Fair Access Panel the Inclusion Panel.
- They do not yet have an agreed school place and therefore require a package of support until such a placement is identified
- They need support to accelerate their progress as a result of gaps in learning.
- They have social, emotional or mental health need that is impacting significantly on their school placement,
- They are on the verge of exclusion or referral to a Pupil Referral Unit and need specialist intervention to moderate their behaviour
- They have poor school attendance which is having a detrimental impact on their academic progress
Learners may also need access to therapeutic services and/or counselling. Schools can make a referral to access services or alternative provision via Inclusion Panel by completing the relevant paperwork within timescales set out in the Inclusion panel Terms of Reference document. This should include clear evidence of Assess Plan Do Review (APDR) cycles.
Doncaster's Maintained Alternative Provision
Maple Medical Service
Maple Medical is a split site ‘Pupil Referral Unit’ (Short Stay School) which serves the whole of the Doncaster area. All the pupils who attend the Centre have medical needs.
There are five areas of Maple:
- JASP (Joint Agency Support Provision). This is for pupils accessing CAMHS support at tier 3. This is situated in Balby.
- The Young Parents Centre. This is for school age mothers and mothers to be and their babies. This is situated in Balby.
- The Hospital School, which caters for children who are in hospital. This is situated in the Women and Children’s hospital at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
- Link education centre, which caters for children who are too ill to attend mainstream but are not in hospital. This is situated in Balby.
- Home tuition, this is for pupils who are too ill for mainstream or Link and need to be educated at home.
The Centre aims to help pupils prepare for return to mainstream school or for the requirements of the adult world.
Tel: 01302 572796
Email: admin@maplemedicalpru.co.uk
The Levett School
Lower School
- Address: Melton Road, Sprotbrough, DN5 7SB
- Tel: 01302 390761 (option 1) / 01302 391007
- Email: admin@levett.doncaster.sch.uk
- Address: Barnby Dun Road, Doncaster, DN2 4RG
- Tel: 01302 390761 (option 2)
- Email: admin@levett.doncaster.sch.uk
Doncaster's Approved Providers
Providers on Doncaster's Alternative Provision (AP) Framework
This booklet contains information relating to alternative providers who have been approved and are able to use the Local Authority Alternative Provision framework. Currently there are a total of 23 providers.
- Alternative Provision Provider Booklet - October 2021
- Download (1.21MB - PDF)
St Wilfrid's Academy
St Wilfrid's Academy is an alternative provision school that supports students from Delta Academies and Doncaster Local Authority schools across Key stage 1 to 4. They offer a bespoke holistic curriculum to learners, based around an academic timetable following the National Curriculum at KS2 and KS3 and GCSEs and vocational placements at KS4, along with a range of therapeutic interventions and enrichment opportunities to support positive engagement with learning and to develop emotional wellbeing. St Wilfrid's provide both short term assessment placements (6 weeks) and long term places for students with more complex needs.
Vega College
Big Picture Doncaster
Big Picture Doncaster offers bespoke learning packages for children in years 7 and 8 who have so far struggled to meaningfully engage with a more traditional offer. This is delivered through a relational approach that enables us to devise a curriculum that is relevant to the learner, and in doing so build in challenge and rigour.
Out of Area Specialist Provision
Rotherham
Name | Age Range | Address | Telephone | Specialises In |
Abbey School | 5 - 19 years | Little Common Lane, Kimberworth, Rotherham, S61 2RA | 01709 740074 | MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
Abbeywood School | 10 - 18 years | Rother Way, Hellaby Industrial Estate, Rotherham, S66 8QN | 01709 916900 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder |
Hill Top School | 2 - 19 years | Larch Road, Maltby, Rotherham, S66 8AZ | 01709 813386 | SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
Kelford School | 2 - 19 years | Oakdale Road, Kimberworth, Rotherham, S61 2NU | 01709 512088 | SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
Milton School | 5 - 16 years | Storey Street, Swinton, Mexborough, S64 8QG | 01709 570246 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
Newman School | 2 - 19 years | East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, S60 3LX | 01709 828262 | SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty VI - Visual Impairment OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability HI - Hearing Impairment SLCN - Speech, language and Communication ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment PD - Physical Disability MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
The Willows School | 7 - 19 years | Locksley Drive, Thurcroft, Rotherham, S66 9NT | 01709 542539 | SLCN - Speech, language and Communication MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
Sheffield
Name | Age Range | Address | Telephone | Specialises In |
Becton School | 5 - 18 years | Sevenairs Road, Beighton, Sheffield, S20 1NZ | 01143 053121 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Bents Green School | 11 - 19 years | Ringinglow Road, Sheffield, S11 7TB | 01142 363545 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
Brantwood Specialist School | 7 - 19 years | 1 Kenwood Bank, Nether Edge, Sheffield, S7 1NU | 01142 589062 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Heritage Park School | 6 - 16 years | Norfolk Park Road, Sheffield, S2 2RU | 01142 796850 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Holgate Meadows School | 6 - 16 years | Lindsay Road, Sheffield, S5 7WE | 01142 456305 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Mossbrook School | 4 - 11 years | Bochum Parkway, Sheffield, S8 8JR | 01142 372768 | OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability SLCN - Speech, language and Communication ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
Norfolk Park School | 3 - 11 years | Archdale Road, Sheffield, S2 1PL | 01142 726165 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
Paces High Green School for Conductive Education | 3 - 18 years | Paces High Green Centre, Pack Horse Lane, High Green, Sheffield, S35 3HY | 01142 845298 | PD - Physical Disability MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
Phoenix School of Therapeutic Education | 11 - 17 years | 83 East Bank Road, Sheffield, S2 3PX | 01142 793350 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Seven Hills School | 11 - 19 years | Granville Road, Sheffield, S2 2RJ | 01142 743560 | PD - Physical Disability PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
Talbot Specialist School | 11 - 19 years | Lees Hall Road, Sheffield, S8 9JP | 01142 507394 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
The Rowan School | 4 - 11 years | 4 Durvale Court, Furniss Avenue, Sheffield, S17 3PT | 01142 350479 | SLCN - Speech, language and Communication ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder |
Woolley Wood School | 3 - 11 years | Chaucer Road, Sheffield, S5 9QN | 01142 327160 | SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
Barnsley
Name | Age Range | Address | Telephone | Specialises In |
Dove School | 9 - 18 years | 194 New Road, Staincross, Barnsley, S75 6PP | 01226 381380 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Greenacre School | 3 - 19 years | Keresforth Hill Road, Barnsley, S70 6RG | 01226 287165 | SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty Complex Learning Difficulty Specific Speech and Language Difficulties |
Park House School | 7 - 17 years | Wentworth Way, Tankersley, Barnsley, S75 3DH | 01226 744870 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Springwell Special Academy | 5 - 16 years | St Helen's Boulevard, Carlton Road, Barnsley, S71 2AY | 012262 91133 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
The Robert Ogden School | 5 - 19 years | Clayton Lane, Thurnscoe, Barnsley, S63 0BG | 01709 874443 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty |
N.E. Lincolnshire
Name | Age Range | Address | Telephone | Specialises In |
Best Futures | 5 - 11 years | The Stables, Church Lane, Aylesbury, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN37 7AW | 01472 278978 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Cambridge Park Academy | 3 - 19 years | Cambridge Road, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN34 5EB | 01472 230110 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
Humberston Park School | 3 - 19 years | St Thomas Close, Humberston, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN36 4HS | 01472 590645 | SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
Flourish With Us Independent Special School | 5 - 11 years | King Street, Winterton, North Lincs, DN15 9TP | 01724 487575 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
The Orchard Independent Special School | 12 - 16 years | Unit 1, Sargon Way, Great Grimsby Business Park, Grimsby, DN37 9PH | 01472 898498 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Wakefield
Name | Age Range | Address | Telephone | Specialises In |
Hall Cliffe Primary School | 5 - 13 years | 7 Wrenthorpe Lane, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield, WF2 0QB | 01924 614490 | ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication Needs |
Hall Cliffe School | 8 - 16 years | Dovecote Lane, Horbury, Wakefield, WF4 6BB | 01924 663420 | ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Ivy Lane School | 11 - 19 years | Ivy Lane, Wakefield, WF1 4AZ | 01924 927280 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder Learning Disability |
Kingsland Primary School | 2 - 11 years | Aberford Road, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4BA | 01924 828990 | ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
Meadowcroft School | 5 - 19 years | 24 Bar Lane, Wakefield, WF1 4AD | 01924 366242 | SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health |
Further Education
For information about further education and a list of post-16 providers, please visit the Further Education webpage.
- The Organisation of Learning Provision Strategy 2020.
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