Westfield School | Ofsted Ratings, SEN, Reviews & Admission 2026

Westfield School is a primary-aged special school that helps kids with communication and interaction issues.
The vast majority of our students are anticipated to have an ASd diagnosis combined with other issues like anxiety, sensory processing, ADHd, and dyspraxia, for example.
Westfield provides these kids with a more intimate atmosphere with lots of room, a tailored curriculum, and instructional strategies to meet their requirements and make learning at school enjoyable.
The structure of the school is determined by the underlying specific educational needs of the students.
Students in this base concentrate on learning to be flexible in applying their knowledge of fundamental skills across the curriculum as well as on obtaining and employing essential social skills on their own to learn well in a group or class setting.
For those whose main issues with communication, language use, and emotional control. Jupiter Base.
Along with self-organization and regulating skills, students concentrate on building fundamental communication and cognitive learning skills.
Students with ASd who have trouble with social cognition are in class 1. (Students who did not rejoin the mainstream by year three would advance to the Mars base above.)
Students with cognitive/speech, language, and communication challenges are placed in class 2. In order to make the most progress possible within the more complicated and challenging key stage 2 National Curriculum, students in this base concentrate on important learning skills, language and vocabulary use, and classroom behaviours relevant to their requirements.
For early KS2 students who still need additional time to build essential language and learning abilities within the KS1 curriculum to facilitate a successful transfer into KS2, a third KS1/2 transition class will open in this base in September 2018.
The school's ethos and goals are centred on addressing each child's fundamental issues so they can advance academically and personally and rejoin the mainstream.
Prior to secondary transfer, we have a solid track record of reintegrating students into regular classrooms.
With more time to work with them and their parents to properly address their requirements and make sure they are independent in managing themselves before returning to a regular classroom, students who visit our school before they are in year 4 have a higher chance of being reintegrated to mainstream.
Students who stay with us through the end of sixth grade continue their education in a variety of secondary institutions, from mainstream to specialised settings.
We offer support to mainstream and special schools with regard to addressing the learning and social needs of pupils with ASd, underlying causes of challenging behaviour and learning needs in the form of INSET, twilight training, in-reach visits and individual consultations regarding an individual child causing concern.
To discuss your needs and how to use this service, please get in touch with the school.