Special Needs Schools

The Education Department maintains two special needs schools for those pupils who require more specialist provision. To be considered for admission, pupils will have undergone or be undergoing a Formal Assessment which identifies their prime area of need as one of the following:

    •    Moderate Learning Difficulties with Additional Needs
    •    Severe Learning Difficulties
    •    Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties

Pupils may also have additional needs such as:

    •    Communication and interaction difficulties
    •    Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
    •    Sensory, physical and medical difficulties

The newly built Le Rondin School & Centre caters for primary age pupils with a range of special education needs. Le Rondin also provides an office base for the peripatetic education support services who mainly work with pupils in mainstream schools. Therapy rooms for occupational therapists, speech therapists and physiotherapists from the Health & Social Services Department are located on the first floor of the building.
The Health & Social Services Department’s Child Development Centre also operates from Le Rondin School & Centre.
Pupils of secondary school age with special educational needs attend the new Le Murier School which opened in September 2008 and is collocated with St Sampson's High School. The College of Further Education provides Post-16 opportunities.
The Link Centre for pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties  operates from the former Oakvale School site in Collings Road. The site is also home to the SEBD Advisory and Outreach Service.