Ethos
Gretton School is a specialist provision for Autistic learners, able to achieve in line or close to their mainstream peers, once provided with a specialist approach and environment.
We look at the whole individual. We know that every person is different, but we also know more than that; that every Autistic person is different. Although there are common areas that unite our learners, it is the things that make them unique that we work to focus on-using their special interests, skills and abilities to maximise their potential, whilst engaging our highly professional multidisciplinary team to work with our young people in areas they wish to develop.
Gretton School is a happy, accepting, welcoming place, where children and young people come to repair any damage caused through their educational journey so far, get on course for their desired future, and achieve all they can.
Vision
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Gretton School provides outstanding autism-specialist education. Integrating social, academic and therapeutic approaches to transform lives from challenge, misunderstanding and anxiety to a bright, safe and successful future. Celebrating difference, and creating confidence in the use of the tools gained through the journey.
Gretton School will strive to change the world into which our learners transition, raising awareness, changing thinking and highlighting the strengths of our Autistic population.
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Mission
Gretton School, as an independent specialist provision, welcomes learners from a wide range of geographic locations which makes the requirement to create community exceptionally important. Equally important is the need to enable the learners to feel and see a connection to their home community in preparation for when they return. We aim to enable our learners to understand their Autism, identify and maximise their strengths, whilst supportively challenging them to make positive change.
Our learners will develop an understanding of their Autism through relationships, connection and support; developing tools to not only manage the wider world, but to be able to succeed effectively in it. Teaching will strive to be outstanding in its planning, resourcing and delivery, bearing in mind the wide range in starting points and previous experiences; not least the learners' own presentations of Autism.
Leadership of the school will be strong, clear, supportive and challenging; ensuring that all staff are challenged to improve, supported to learn and develop, held to account for their performance and enabled to facilitate the learners' success.
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Clinical and therapeutic services will be fully integrated into the running of the school, enabling all staff to be able to maximise social and academic development in our learners through the development of their own professional skills and knowledge.
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The environment of the school will continue to develop, creating appropriate learning environments, including learning facilities to maximise opportunities; both academic and social.
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The school will continue to develop closer working relationships with Local Authority partners, to ensure that their needs, as well as those of the learners are met. We will work together to create innovative means to develop provision further, whilst supporting the management of the public purse.
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The school will maximise close working relationships with families, parents and carers, providing support and good communication, maximising our learners’ development and outcomes.
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The school will develop opportunities to train, teach and communicate the strengths of those on the spectrum, as well as make effective adaptations to enable the wider community to appreciate and benefit from their skills. ​
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See Gretton School through the eyes of a learner here.
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"The school gives not only the pupils, but parents hope."
- Parent
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