Admission to Reception and Key Stage 1 Now Open!
Each year the Caelum House admits 10 children into the Reception and KS1 classes.
Due to the predicted high rate of applications to the school, parents are recommended to register their child as early as possible. A completed Registration Form (obtainable from the website or from the school) must be sent to hello@blueskyautism.com.
A Registration Fee of £50 is applicable and non refundable.
Caelum House has a non selective admissions procedure. However, as a specialist communication and language setting, the school needs to be confident that a child will be able to benefit from the specialist curriculum which the school provides for its pupils, so that there is every chance that each pupil will be able to have a complete, happy and successful school career, and will be able to emerge as a well-educated, well-rounded and confident learner.
Our aim is to ensure that children who attend Caelum House for our Reception and KS1 classes can move to mainstream school for their subsequent school years, able to access the full mainstream curriculum.
Applications and Assessment
Prospective pupils will be invited to attend an assessment session in the Spring Term in this same academic year. These assessment sessions last for 90 minutes are held in the school’s therapy centre with a member of the Blue Sky Therapy Team. The school has developed its own assessment procedures and criteria, based on a range of standardized assessments set by accredited organisations. The overall aim of these assessments is to assess a child’s strengths and long- term potential to thrive at Caelum House.
Letters to parents following these assessments are sent out after the final assessment sessions, within 2 weeks of the assessment appointment.
All parents applying for a place at the school must disclose any evidence of additional needs, professional reports and therapeutic intervention that their child has received in order for the school to consider how we might best support your child in the school and whether the school is the appropriate environment to meet your child’s needs. Failure to do so could result in offers being withdrawn. Parents are therefore encouraged to contact the school at the earliest opportunity if they have matters concerning their child which they wish to discuss.
Assessments will be offered in writing and will take place in the April and May before the September intake appropriate to the child’s age.
Deferral Year
We accept pupils in our Reception Class who may have deferred their school start and we also offer a deferred year in our nursery setting for pupils who would benefit from an additional year within a specialist nursery provision. http://www.play2talknursery.co.uk
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