Coln House Residential Special School - Alexander House Challenge

Alexander House Challenge

Alexander House Challenge

Ryan

Ryan completed his challenge on Friday 09 May. He decided that he was going to run the 4 miles and at times found it a little difficult. However, he showed true resilience and pushed himself hard to complete the course in a very respectable 1:05. Excellent effort Ryan, well done!

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James

James completed his challenge on Friday 02 May. He completed the 4 mile walk in 1:19 beating Lauren by just under 10 minutes. Well done James, an excellent effort!

Tim

Tim completed the challenge in a fantastic 48mins! Seems like all the pupils are taking this challenge very seriously. Can't wait to see who can beat it!

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Connor

Connor ran his challenge and set an amazing time of 57 mins. Going to be a hard one to beat !

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Lauren

Walked her challenge and set the first time of 1hr 27mins.

An excellent time that other pupils will have to work very hard to beat!

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Ofsted Feb 2013

Overall effectiveness: Good with outstanding features.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

This is a good school. School leaders know their pupils very well. Teaching is typically good and there are some examples of outstanding teaching.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

All groups of pupils make good progress in all aspects of their learning. This is almost always from a very low starting point.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

Pupils have excellent attitudes to learning in class and they behave exceptionally well around the school site.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

School leaders, including members of the governing body, are ambitious for the school.Governors play a full role in raising standards at the school.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

The achievement of pupils is good. There is a secure trend of improvement over time, with more pupils gaining good GCSE passes A* to G.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

The quality of teaching is good. Lesson planning is well organised, teacher expectations of pupils are high.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

The behaviour and safety of pupils are outstanding. Exceptionally skilful behaviour management systems have been developed by school leaders.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

Pupils are very proud of their achievements. Pupils speak with warmth about their successes in physical challenges away from school.

Ofsted Inspection Report 2013

Ofsted Residential 2014

“Specialist departments such as child protection, horticulture, catering and the residential care team set extremely high standards that they adhere to and consistently seek to improve. This is also true of the behaviour management specialist team.”

Ofsted Residential Care Inspection Report February 2014

“Most residential pupils succeed in this setting following failure in other schools…..The activities programme equips residential students with life skills that they can utilise in adulthood”.

Ofsted Residential Care Inspection Report February 2014

“Residential staff are well supported in their role through termly supervision and because they are aware - “The Head of Care and senior management are passionate about their roles and demonstrate a commitment to the continual development and improvement of boarding”

Ofsted Residential Care Inspection Report February 2014

"Leadership and management of the residential provision are outstanding" The residential provision is valued highly for the overall contribution it makes to the school and for the role it plays in the personal development of each residential pupil.

Ofsted Residential Care Inspection Report February 2014

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