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 Welcome to Ysgol Hendre; a special school for the 21st Century, which serves the needs of secondary aged pupils with learning difficulties in Neath Port Talbot. The school also has a regional centre for Deafblind children and young people with multisensory impairment aged between 2 and 19 from across south and west Wales. We are a school which invests heavily in both staff and pupils. Our curriculum is rich and imaginatively delivered and it compares favourably with that of mainstream secondary schools. Our specialist facilities include a motor vehicle workshop, photographic darkroom, gym with climbing wall and environmental studies water garden. There is a science lab, food technology suite, ICT suite, as well as technology, music, and art rooms. Our Deafblind Centre, which is able to meet the needs of multi-sensory impaired children from across South Wales, is considered by SENSE, the Deafblind charity, to be a centre of excellence in the field of Deafblind Education. It contains many very specialised facilities such as a sensory garden, a lights room, a sound room with sound beam technology, soft play rooms and distraction free areas. The school also has extensive residential facilities which are used for four nights each week by many of the pupils at the school in order to pursue a 24 hour curriculum. Pupils at the school are taught in small, well staffed classes using individual education plans. A wide range of qualifications are on offer, including the Duke of Edinburgh Award, ASDAN Awards, Certificate Of Educational Achievements and City and Guilds " Skillpower" Awards. Our Aim is a simple one: we want to develop the sort of adults that we would like to have living next door to us. As well as being a great school, we also regard ourselves as a large family. Adults and young people know and understand each other well. It is a place of support and sympathy, our problems are shared and hopefully reduced; our successes and triumphs are celebrated. We are small enough to care and nurture, big enough to offer a wide, relevant range of educational experiences. Paul Smith M.Ed. |
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