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Westhaven is a small special school in the south of Weston-super-Mare, catering for pupils aged between 7 and 16 with moderate learning and increasingly complex barriers to learning. There 75 pupils on roll – 16 in KS2 and 59 in KS3 and 4.

At Westhaven School the key purpose is to ensure that the students receive an education that is appropriate for their individual needs in order to increase self-esteem, develop their full potential and emerge to become valued and valuable members of their community.

Our pupils are those for whom the mainstream school may be inappropriate for all or part of their education. Westhaven offers a broad curriculum, modified to meet pupil needs and supported by Individual Education Plans. The school provides high levels of pupil support in small groups and offers flexible placements in partnership with mainstream schools.

The needs of the students are Autistic Spectrum Disorders (14%), Speech and Language Difficulties (10%), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (10%), Specific Learning Difficulties (10%), EBD (20%), Emotional Needs, e.g. School Phobia (20%), Physical Difficulties and Sensory Impairments (10%). The number of pupils with only the designation of Moderate Learning Difficulties (6%) continues to decrease as the needs of MLD pupils are being met increasingly within mainstream.

All Key Stage 4 pupils are entered for external examinations, including the Certificate of Educational Achievement (CoEA) and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE).

Priory Community School
Acting Headteacher - Ron Richards

Priory School is an 11-16 comprehensive which serves the eastern part of Weston-super-Mare. Priory is a popular school and has had to raise its admission level twice over the last 3 years.

Following a successful application to become a Specialist Technology College in 1998 the school has been successful in gaining Second Phase Status from 2001. Priory has just been re-credited as an Investor in People; it has Careers Mark, Sports Mark and has two Schools Curriculum Awards, the last being in 2002. Currently there are approximately 1100 students on role. The school has a Behaviour Support Base for Key Stage 3 students and a Hearing Impaired Resource Base for students with hearing loss and language difficulties.

The school has four main development plan priorities that inform planning until 2005. These are achievement, partnership, quality and enterprise and all of our activities are related to key principles associated with these four objectives.

The school has a community dimension with over 40 local groups using the school as a venue and this is a key part of Priory’s Specialist College initiative.

Baytree School
Headteacher - Carol Penney

Baytree is a school designated to meet the needs of pupils aged 3-19 who have Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD).

A bid has been submitted to the DfES for Targeted Capital Funding to build an innovative inclusive community learning complex. The outcome of this bid is due. It is intended that the new building will be part of an inclusive project that will give the full access to physically disabled persons.

There are currently 54 pupils on roll, arranged over 7 classes. All pupils have a Statement of Special Educational Needs and a high proportion have exceptional needs which include physical, sensory and/or challenging behaviour needs. In recent years there has been an increase in Health Care Needs.

The key aims of the school are

working together
support each pupil
learning experiences
quality of life
independence

Pupils and their learning are at the heart of all that we do. We recognise the individual nature of their needs and alongside this the need that we all have to work and live in the same society after school has finished. Just over 50% of pupils have a regular ‘inclusive’ placement in various mainstream settings.

Wyvern School
Headteacher - Maggie Mooney

Wyvern Community School, is a mixed comprehensive of over 900 pupils aged 11-16. It occupies a single site at the heart of Weston-super-Mare, with significant new facilities. Wyvern serves a community stretching across the sea front and central parts of the town, out into the new development area at Locking Castle and one or two surrounding villages. In September 2001, the school was awarded Sports College status. This provided new facilities and resources to develop the school further.

The school strives to promote a respect for learning, an eagerness to work for the benefit of self and others, a concern for individuals and the community as a whole and a moral, responsible, humane attitude to life.

Broadoak Community School
Headteacher - Linda Heaven-Woolley

Broadoak Community School opened in September 1999 in a building designed for teaching in the 21st Century. The whole school is linked for Information Communication Technology and has a completely new network of 150 computer terminals, with Internet and facilities for video conferencing.

The classrooms are smart, light and well equipped. The school is equipped with specialist science, technology, art, music and drama rooms that have state of the art facilities. The school hall accommodates the whole school and is equipped to professional standard as a theatre, whilst the sports hall accommodates easily the full range of sports fully complementing our playing fields.

Teaching and learning is the main focus of the school. Characterised by high expectations of our students. Broadoak School strives to use every opportunity to help students achieve their "personal best" in work, homework, study skills, team skills, respect and courtesy.

Students are carefully monitored and supported by their teachers as well as by tutors and Year Co-ordinators. Students with particular needs receive additional help from the Learning Support Team. The school offers a very rich extra-curricular provision extending and enriching students' learning and personal effectiveness skills.

Worle Community School
Headteacher - Trevor Bailey

Worle Community School is a specialist Arts College with a rapidly developing community programme. The school is a large comprehensive with 1274 students on roll. The school is growing in size due to popularity.