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The School
Alderman Knight School provides specialist education for children with moderate learning difficulties in small tutor groups of between six and twelve pupils. This provision is for children who reside in North Gloucestershire and neighbouring areas. An indication of the continuing popularity of this school is the significant proportion of parents who have chosen to fund personally the transport of their children from areas outside the designated catchment. Teaching at the school embraces all four Key Stages of National Curriculum for children five to sixteen years of age.
Alderman Knight also admits pupils with increasingly complex additional learning difficulties. These include pupils with particular difficulties in language delay and disorder, mild autism, behaviour, specific learning difficulties, dyslexia, severe learning difficulties and hearing, sight and medical problems.
An experienced team of teachers and teacher assistants with specialist qualifications staffs the school. Pupils additionally benefit from the support of a range of visiting medical and educational professionals. Within a tightly structured National Curriculum framework, these professionals have developed an expertise for assessing and defining the learning objectives needed for pupils to achieve.
It is felt by staff at this school that with appropriate support, in an empathetic enviroment and with carefully organised educational programmes, children with special needs can be helped to achieve and progress to success in external examinations. We feel Alderman Knight School offers this opportunity for success to those children fortunate to find places with us.