Helen Allison School

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About Us

Helen Allison is a positive, friendly school that’s been bringing out the best in children on the autism spectrum for over 50 years. We provide a stimulating, high quality education that helps each child reach their full potential.

The school has a well-established and highly specialist on-site therapy team. Our transdisciplinary team deliver an outstanding and highly effective service to support our children and young people. Our teaching staff, support and care staff and therapists work together every day.

The multidisciplinary approach ensures that we can provide a bespoke package of intervention to meet the ever changing needs of our students. Therapeutic approaches and interventions are embedded into the daily lives of our students and form part of their waking day curriculum.

Specialist interventions on offer include but are not limited to: Intervention using the Sensory Integration approach, Lego Therapy, Therapeutic Listening, Rebound Therapy, Sensory circuits, Schools Massage programme, Social communication groups, language groups and The Bridges curriculum.

We’ve put in place some exciting collaborative therapies at Helen Allison. Our speech and language and occupational therapists have identified children’s sensory needs and prescribed a sensory diet where appropriate. We have used this alongside an innovative programme of Therapeutic Listening®. Many students also benefit from daily sensory circuits to alert, organise and focus them for the day ahead.

Our aim is to equip every pupil with strategies to overcome their barriers to learning; to nurture each young person’s talents and interests and to develop their self-esteem and well-being. We are committed to ensuring that children’s’ anxieties and sensory differences are recognised, understood and fully supported.

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If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers - send us your CV now via our School Talent Pool and say what sort of role you're looking for.

Vision, Mission and Values

Our mission

To transform lives by providing support, information and practical advice for more than 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK, as well as their three million family members and carers.

To change attitudes by improving public understanding of autism and helping businesses, local authorities and government to provide more autism-friendly spaces, deliver better services and improve laws.

Our vision

A society that works for autistic people.

Our values

We learn from real experience. We’ve spent over 50 years working together with people on the autism spectrum. No one has more practical knowledge of autism. But we move with the times and we understand that there’s always more to learn.

We tell it like it is. We share what we have learned about autism, so that more people can make informed decisions and lead the best lives possible.

We inspire. We celebrate progress, open up new possibilities, spur people into action and motivate change. 

We are courageous. We won’t accept ignorance or inequality, and we’ll never stop pushing for more understanding, greater support and a better world for people on the autism spectrum.

Our students

  • Access a curriculum specifically tailored to meet individual needs.
  • Be taught using a range of strategies to meet individual learning styles.
  • Develop skills for life including promotion of safety, well-being and independence beyond school.
  • Develop a belief in the importance of what they can achieve, not what they can’t.
  • Recognise and develop personal strengths, interests and skills.
  • Become empowered to make informed life choices through a structured approach to Person Centred Planning.
  • Become self-aware and be able to self-regulate personal barriers to learning.
  • Develop and maintain positive relationships.

Our parents

  • Feel involved, informed and supported in relation to their child’s progress and development.
  • Regard the school as a source of expertise and support.
  • Highly rate the Vanguard School in satisfaction surveys.
  • Support the work of the school and participate in school community activities.
  • Take opportunities to develop partnerships with other parents and families.
  • Use the school as a community resource.

Our local schools and community

  • Regard us as specialists in the field of autism to develop their autism knowledge and practice.
  • Understand our students and work with us to extend their opportunities, including work experience.
  • Seek our advice and contributions on matters relating to autism, for individual students, whole school development and/or community projects.
  • Use our facilities and resources, including the sport hall.
  • Welcome us in accessing some of their specialist facilities.