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Schools with moderate learning difficulties provision in Reading

For pupils who learn at a slower pace across the curriculum and need work adapted for them. Reading has 4 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for moderate learning difficulties and 0 special schools that cater for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (4)

Pupils have a specialist base and staff inside an ordinary school. Places are separate from the school's main admissions and normally need an EHC plan.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
New Bridge Nursery SchoolNursery school · also autism, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment and moreSEN unit and resourced provision2-5Reading20Outstanding 2023–
Norcot Early Years CentreNursery school · also autism, other needs, social, emotional and mental health and moreResourced provision2-5Reading18Outstanding 2024–
King's Academy ProspectSecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Reading–Good 202223
River AcademySecondary schoolResourced provision11-18Reading7Not inspected–

Mainstream schools listed for this need (1)

Registered for this need without a separate unit, so provision is within ordinary classes.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism, speech, language and communicationMainstream, listed for this need4-11Reading–Good 202260
Other councilsAll schools in Reading

Other needs

AutismSpeech, language and communicationSocial, emotional and mental healthSevere learning difficultiesProfound and multiple learning difficultiesHearing impairmentVisual impairmentMulti-sensory impairmentPhysical disabilitySpecific learning difficultiesOther needs

How to read this

The list comes from the Department for Education's register of schools (Get Information about Schools), which records the type of SEN provision each school has and how many pupils are in a resourced provision or SEN unit. Resourced provision means extra staff and funding for a group of pupils who spend most of their time in ordinary classes. A SEN unit is a separate class within the school. Both need a place agreed by the council through an education, health and care plan; ask the council's SEND team, not the school's admissions office. The register is only as good as what schools report, so check with the school before relying on it.