Spa School

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Spa School
Address
Spa School
Monnow Road


,
SE1 5RN

England
Coordinates 51°29′30″N0°04′03″W / 51.49174°N 0.06758°W / 51.49174; -0.06758 Coordinates: 51°29′30″N0°04′03″W / 51.49174°N 0.06758°W / 51.49174; -0.06758
Information
Type Special school
Academy
Local authority Southwark
Department for Education URN 146190 Tables
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherSimon Eccles
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 19
Enrolment114 (November 2020)
Website https://www.spa-education.org/spa-school-bermondsey

Spa School is a coeducational special school for pupils aged 11 to 19. It is located in the Bermondsey area of the London Borough of Southwark, England. It is one of Britain's largest state schools for children with autism, and has a high staff to student ratio.

Contents

The school occupies an old-fashioned red-brick building behind which is a landscaped garden through which flows an artificial stream. [1]

Students

There are 100 pupils aged between 11 and 19, both boys and girls, with a range of autism spectrum disorders between severe and high-functioning. [2]

Media attention

The school was featured within a BBC article "School grounds 'improve behaviour'" and students and staff alike were interviewed on the school's scheme of natural improvement within the school grounds. [3]

A Channel 4 documentary Make Me Normal, broadcast on 2 June 2005, was filmed at Spa School. The one-hour documentary followed four students at the school as they revealed what it is like to grow up with a disability that affects around 535,000 people in the UK. [4]

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References

  1. BBC - The grounds at Spa School
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 May 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. BBC - The grounds at Spa School
  4. National Autism Society - The Make Me Normal programme