Stepping Stones School

Education is the best way to help children and young people with additional needs to achieve positive and fulfilling futures. They need a teacher who believes in them as an individual with hopes and potential

• Stepping Stones School offers a unique, warm, safe and caring educational environment for children and young people who may not thrive and achieve in an external setting at this point in their lives. We understand young people learn in very different ways, and a person centred approach enables success.

  Staff are passionate about making a difference and enabling them to reach their full potential. We understand how to personalise their learning and share in new experiences with them. We have clear pathways into more formal establishments, such as mainstream education, SEN schooling, college, employment, or work experience.

  Our individual, person-centred timetables will include core subjects, but the core curriculum is also embedded in holistic activities to enhance learning opportunities.

• Every child and young person will have a 12 week assessment which will allow our teaching staff to gather information about their previous education achievements, assess their current needs and abilities, engage the young person in ownership of their potential and what is required of them to be successful and agree the best learning plan for them.

  

For further information on Stepping Stones School…

Please contact Emma Gillin, Head of Education, SENCO – Stepping Stones and Virtual Schools
Tel: 01827 337998 or 07811 414551
Email: emma.gillin@youngfoundations.com

Ofsted Parent View – Please use this link to comment or give feedback on Stepping Stones School.

Click here to view the DfE Performance Tables

Stepping Stones School Booklet

Find out more about what we do by reading our Welcome to Stepping Stones School booklet (PDF). This booklet also includes our SEND Information Report.

Compliments, complaints or concerns

If you have any compliments, complaints or concerns, please contact Tom Ellison (Governor/Director of Operations) on 01244 915002.

Policies and procedures

Please click on the links below to download and view the full details of our policies and procedures.

If you require a paper version of any of these policies, please contact Emma Gillin, contact details above.

• 1. Click here to download Stepping Stones School’s COVID-19 Risk Assessment Document
  1. Click here to download Stepping Stones School’s (Previously known as Valley House School) Ofsted Report (Part 1)
  1. Click here to download Stepping Stones School’s (Previously known as Valley House School) Ofsted Report (Part 2)
  1. Click here to download our Accessibility Plan
  1. Click here to download our Admission Arrangements Document
  1. Click here to download our British Values Policy
  1. Click here to download our Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy
  1. Click here to download our Inclusion Statement
  1. Click here to download our Information Governance Policy
  1. Click here to download our Outcomes and Destinations Document
  1. Click here to download our Personal Development and Welfare Document
  1. Click here to download our Policy for Managing Allegations Against Teaching and Non Teaching Staff
  1. Click here to download our Curriculum Policy
  1. Click here to download our Blended Learning Policy
• 1. Click here to download our Pupil Premium Statement
  1. Click here to download our School Development Plan
  1. Click here to download our Self Evaluation Form
  1. Click here to download our Staff Behaviour Policy
  1. Click here to download our Curriculum Plan
  1. Click here to download our Complaints Policy
  1. Click here to download our Vision and Values
  1. Click here to download our Whistle Blowing Policy
  1. Click here to download our Behaviours that Challenge Policy
  1. Click here to download our Child Protection Safeguarding Policy
  1. Click here to download our Health and Safety Policy
  1. Click here to download our Inclusion Policy
  1. Click here to download our SEN Policy
  1. Click here to download our Anti Bullying Policy
  1. Click here to download our E-Safety Policy

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• We take part in Operation Encompass

  Working in partnership with Staffordshire Safeguarding Board and Staffordshire Police.

‘It’s every child’s right to be supported and safeguarded’