Special educational needs consultation

Your chance to tell us what you think about the proposals for special schools in Hammersmith and Fulham.

We want all pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities, whatever their registered school, to have access to a range of provision and support across the borough that will meet their own educational needs and allow good opportunities for progression.

We plan to use the opportunities provided by the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme to continue to develop our good provision into outstanding provision.

Cambridge School
We propose to relocate Cambridge School alongside mainstream secondary schools in the north and south of the borough. This inclusive learning partnership will benefit all the pupils and staff. The school will retain its own structure, identity and space, and its own governing body.

Woodlane High School
The school will be retained as provision for vulnerable pupils with complex needs. It will continue to provide an outreach service for medical and mental health needs.

Jack Tizard School
No organisational changes are proposed for the school (although the Council is currently developing plans to include hydrotherapy provision on the site),  but we anticipate that the school will have a key role in developing flexible learning and family support models, as well as extending its high quality outreach provision.

Queensmill School
The council has published a statutory notice to extend the age range of the school from 3 to 11 years to 3 to 19 years, starting in September 2009. Clear support for this proposal was expressed in a previous BSF consultation. We plan to build a new school on the current site of the Bridge Academy in Fulham if the proposal to re-locate Cambridge School is successful.

Bridge Academy
The Bridge Academy provides alternative secondary provision and some specialist provision for pupils with behavioural difficulties. We plan to develop further some of the best aspects of the Bridge Academy, including the delivery of therapeutic outreach services and support to mainstream schools. We would like to extend the Academy’s role to include some post 16 provision. Should all the Council’s proposals go ahead, we would look to relocate the Bridge Academy in a brand new building on the present Cambridge School site.

This proposal forms part of the council’s plans to redevelop every secondary school in the borough over the coming years.

Funding for the redevelopment of special schools in Hammersmith & Fulham will come from the Government’s Building Schools for the Future initiative.

The consultation closed on 19 January 2009, the report will be posted here soon. 

» Download the executive summary document (54KB)

» Download the parents summary document (43KB)

» Download the full consultation document (136KB)

» Learn more about Building Schools for the Future (BSF)
» Download the Queensmill school public notice (pdf 23KB)
» Download the supplementary public notice information - proposals for Queensmill school (pdf 82KB)