Cambian Potterspury Lodge School supports and educates students with Autism and other associated challenges within the autistic spectrum, offering pupils aged 8–18 a differentiated, engaging and challenging curriculum. Our school offers up to 52-week residential provision and also provides day-student placements. Staff are highly experienced and trained in supporting young people with communication challenges and sensory needs, learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, and other diagnosed conditions including depression, anxiety, ADHD, and Tourette's syndrome.
Our shared vision and ethos are vitally important parts of our school identity. Potterspury Lodge School strives to develop self-confidence and self-esteem within our learners; establish an enduring respect for, and interest in, other individuals and groups within our local community and within our wider multi-cultural society; establishing a culture of ambition and success within our autism-friendly and autism-specialist environment to fully prepare our students for adulthood. Staff are friendly and enthusiastic, highly-experienced, hold a range of appropriate qualifications and regularly participate in targeted CPD processes.
Beyond our timetabled school hours, Potterspury Lodge School offers our residential students an extended, engaging and varied pastoral curriculum. Within the residential-home context, organised activities, structured task-setting, supplementary education and opportunities for physical exercise are all established as integral parts of our provision, as are appropriate opportunities for off-site visits. These extensions of our educational provision are all managed with the skill and sensitivity that is to be expected within an autism-specialist environment, with pupils learning the skills of self-care, self-management and, eventually, independence. Our goal at Potterspury Lodge School is to provide our students with the opportunity to build towards a secure, happy and successful future.
