Our School

About St Giles School

St. Giles is a Croydon Local Authority Maintained Community School for pupils aged 2-19 with physical disabilities, complex medical needs, complex speech and language difficulties and associated learning difficulties, moderate(MLD), severe(SLD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).

St Giles Nursery is part of the Croydon Local Offer for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and has places for 12-part time or 6 full time nursery children aged over two with identified needs under the Croydon commissioning arrangements.

Pupils with PMLD aged 16-19can remain at St Giles in the Further Education Unit for pupils.

History

The school was opened in 1925 and was originally sited in Thornton Heath. In 1933 the school moved to Featherbed Lane, Addington and in 1977 it moved to its current purpose-built accommodation in Pampisford Road, South Croydon.

Accommodation

St Giles is a single-storey, accessible building, divided into two main sections linked by a ramped corridor. There is a separate modular build that contains the Nursery and a Reception / Year One class.

Specialist facilities include:

Hygiene rooms with hoists and changing beds

Hydrotherapy pool

Trampoline for rebound Therapy

Dark sensory room

Light sensory room

Hall

Library

Art room

Music room

Science and ICT room

Food and Design technology room

Creative therapy room

Overhead hoists in most classrooms

Rise and fall desks/tables

Eyegaze technology

Adapted ICT

Wheelchair accessible swing and roundabout

Wheelchair accessible greenhouse

Nursing, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy departments.

Staffing

The school staff includes teachers, teaching assistants, a Pupil Support and Care team, nurses and therapists, supported by administration, catering, premises management, technical and cleaning staff.

All school staff are specially trained to become experts in working with pupils with physical disabilities and complex medical needs.

School Paediatrician

Orthotist—clinics to provide foot and ankle splints

Wheelchair Clinic

Advisory Teachers of the Hearing Impaired and Visually Impaired

Educational Psychologist

Dietician

School Dentist

‘Willow’ Grief and Loss counsellors

Music Therapist

ELSA – Emotional Literacy Support Assistant

Governors

There are thirteen Governors on the Governing Body, which meets every term. They include representatives from staff, parents, the Local Authority and the community. The three committees, Strategy, Achievement and Standards, Resources, also meet every term.