Spa School

Spa School
Type Community Special School
Location Monnow Road
London
SE1 5RN
England
51°29′30″N 0°04′03″W / 51.49174°N 0.06758°W / 51.49174; -0.06758Coordinates: 51°29′30″N 0°04′03″W / 51.49174°N 0.06758°W / 51.49174; -0.06758
Local authority Southwark
DfE URN 100873 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Staff 70
Students 100 (December 2015)
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–19
Website www.spa.southwark.sch.uk//

Spa School is a mixed secondary school in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark. It is one of Britain's largest state schools for children with autism, and has a high staff to student ratio.

The school occupies an old-fashioned red-brick building behind which is a landscaped garden through which flows an artificial stream.[1]

Students

There are 100 pupils aged between 11 and 19, both boys and girls, with a range of autism spectrum disorders between severe and high-functioning.[2]

Staff

The head teacher is Simon Eccles. There are over 70 members of staff.

Media attention

The school was featured within a BBC article "School grounds 'improve behaviour'" and students and staff alike were interviewed on the school's scheme of natural improvement within the school grounds.[3]

A Channel 4 documentary Make Me Normal, broadcast on 2 June 2005, was filmed at Spa School. The one-hour documentary followed four students at the school as they revealed what it is like to grow up with a disability that affects around 535,000 people in the UK.[4]

References

  1. ↑ BBC - The grounds at Spa School
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-08. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  3. ↑ BBC - The grounds at Spa School
  4. ↑ National Autism Society - The Make Me Normal programme
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