Lakeside School A GSG School
- Lakeside School
Naylors Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L27 2YA - Head: Mrs Victoria Size
- T 0151 487 7211
- F 0151 487 7214
- E admin@lakesideschool.uk.com
- W witherslackgro…lakeside-school
- A special independent school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 16. Type of SEN provision: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication; SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Liverpool
- Pupils: 72
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
One student who has ASD and attachment disorder, struggles with hand-written work. She learned language, sentence structure and vocab on the iPad and, when she was ready, they slowly introduced handwriting. ‘They took away the stress and built her confidence and now she’s writing pages and pages. I burst into tears ...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2006, Vicky Size. Practical and down to earth, she started her working life as a waitress and childminder. Having always wanted to work with children, she took a year out after school to volunteer in a special needs nursery. Then worked as NQT at mainstream Hale CofE Primary, where she felt particularly drawn to the children who struggled and had the most barriers to overcome. Spent a couple of years teaching in mainstream Wolverhampton Primary School, then worked in their SEMH unit, staying there for two-and-a-half years. Moved to Lakeside in 2003, promoted to deputy head in January 2004, then acting head in November the same year, when the head became poorly. After the previous head passed away, Mrs Size was promoted to the role at the age of 31. Initially felt caught...
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Special Education Needs
Lakeside is an independent day school providing for pupils from five to 11 years with complex communication and learning difficulties and associated anxieties and behaviours. The school has been judged as 'Outstanding' in its last three Ofsted inspections (2010, 2014, 2017).
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Might cover/be referred to as;
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Aspergers, Autism, High functioning autism, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), PDA , Social skills, Sensory processing disorder |
Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Hearing Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment |
|
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Learning needs, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty |
|
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, Sensory processing |
|
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
Downs Syndrome, Epilepsy, Genetic , OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, Tics, Tourettes |
|
| PD - Physical Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
PD - Physical Disability |
|
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, Global delay, Global developmental delay, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty |
|
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Might cover/be referred to as;
Anxiety , Complex needs, Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), Mental Health, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, Trauma |
Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
Might cover/be referred to as;
DLD - Developmental Language Disorder, Selective mutism, SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication |
Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, Cerebral Palsy (CP) |
|
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Auditory Processing, DCD, Developmental Co-ordination Difficulties (DCD), Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Handwriting, Other specific learning difficulty, SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) |
Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Special facilities for Visually Impaired, VI - Visual Impairment |
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