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Schools with speech, language and communication provision in Wakefield

For children who find it hard to understand language or make themselves understood, often with speech and language therapists on site. Wakefield has 9 mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision for speech, language and communication and 1 special school that caters for it.

Mainstream schools with a unit or resourced provision (9)

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
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary school · also autismResourced provision3-11Wakefield10Good 202346
Moorthorpe Primary School With Inclusion ResourcePrimary school · also social, emotional and mental healthSEN unit and resourced provision3-11Pontefract20Good 202410
Newlands Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autism, other needsResourced provision3-11Normanton14No overall grade 20253
Northfield Primary SchoolPrimary school · also autismResourced provision3-11Pontefract20Requires improvement 202291
Streethouse Junior, Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary school · also severe learning difficultiesSEN unit2-11Pontefract5Report card 20264
Minsthorpe Community CollegeSecondary school · also moderate learning difficultiesResourced provision11-18Pontefract7Good 202348
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademySecondary school · also autismResourced provision11-16Wakefield20Good 202362
St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary AcademySecondary school · also autismResourced provision11-18Pontefract20Report card 202646
The Featherstone AcademySecondary school · also autismResourced provision11-16Pontefract19Good 202235

Special schools (1)

Special schools take pupils with an education, health and care plan; the council names the school in the plan. Many cater for several needs.

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
High Well SchoolSpecial school · also autism, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental healthSpecial school9-16Pontefract104 pupilsGood 2022–

Mainstream schools listed for this need (3)

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

SchoolProvisionAgesTownPlacesOfstedScore
Castleford Park Junior AcademyPrimary school · also social, emotional and mental healthMainstream, listed for this need7-11Castleford–Good 202442
Oyster Park Primary AcademyPrimary schoolMainstream, listed for this need3-11Castleford–Report card 20264
Airedale AcademySecondary schoolMainstream, listed for this need11-18Castleford–Requires improvement 20242
Other councilsAll schools in Wakefield

Other needs

AutismSocial, emotional and mental healthModerate learning difficultiesSevere 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.