Stubbin Wood School

Headteacher Lee Floyd comments:

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change the way SEN education is viewed and delivered.

The shared site at the new school will give senior SEN pupils the opportunity to work alongside children in a mainstream school and provide real inclusion and break down barriers – in terms of both physical proximity and preconceived ideas.

A downside to our school, as it currently stands, is that there is no community base because the catchment for pupils is so broad. The amazing facilities, shared social areas and extended hours that the new site will offer should counteract that that by maximising the usage pupils can get out of the facilities.

It will also be there for parents to use so we should be able to build up a strong sense of community and identity and the school will be a focal point for that.

Pupils attending Shirebrook School who have mild learning difficulties and our higher achieving pupils will get a great deal because all the expertise will be in-house with the staff from both schools being on one site.

Successes generated by the creation of this co-located school could be rolled out throughout the county and change the face of education and the way true inclusion is approached."

You can read the full Stubbin Wood School Vision document, the Governors' Report and the Curriculum Framework 2007-10 in the more information section on this page.