RIVERSTON
SCHOOL

INCLUDE | INNOVATE | INSPIRE

Welcome to Riverston School

Our Aims and Ethos

Riverston School provides a warm, caring and stimulating environment where children will learn new skills. We excel at providing each child with the right skills to prepare them for life in the wider world. We are part of a community characterised by a profound respect for and encouragement of diversity, where important differences among children and adults are celebrated. What drives us is ensuring that children have the best possible life chances and that they are not limited by the  perceptions of themselves and what they might achieve in life.

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Riverston Nursery

Riverston Nursery

Riverston Nursery and Early Years Department operates a morning, afternoon or a full day  programme for children aged 9 months to 4 years old.

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Riverston School

Riverston School

Our ethos and approach in the senior school remains focused on developing the unique skills, talents and abilities of every individual pupil with personalised education plans for everyone.

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Riverston College

Riverston College

Riverston College is our offering for students of 16 years and above with courses and programmes that allow our students to realise their ambitions and to progress further.

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HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME

I am delighted to welcome you to Riverston School and College. If we have the pleasure of you visiting in person, you will quickly see we are a very unique setting with the reality of inclusion at our core. We are an independent school in the heart of London, and reflect the diversity that surrounds us. Our students reach across all abilities and backgrounds. Our small classes and nurturing environment provides the platform for success that a traditional educational setting cannot provide. Many of our students come from a place of broken relationships with the school system, difficult experiences in their peer relationships or a lack of empathy and understanding from professionals working with them. We look to repair relationships and trust in the school system so that students feel safe enough, and happy enough, to reach their academic potential.

Our extensive therapy team including drama therapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy, allow us to cater for students with wide ranging needs, including those with mental health difficulties as well as learning needs. We offer a broad and rich curriculum which includes GCSEs, A Levels and BTECs, alongside a range of life skills courses that help prepare our young people for life beyond secondary education. Our future focused ethos means we take a very child centred approached and look to tailor our provision to the needs of each individual, leading them to where they want be in adulthood. Whether that is further education, employment or simply being able to live independently, our focus is on the child and family voice and their hopes and aspirations. We very much hope you will have the chance to visit our fantastic school, so we can show you our ethos and values in practice.

Guy Baker, Headteacher

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Riverston School aims to:

💙 Provide a safe, supportive and caring environment in which to work
💙 Provide a contemporary, innovative, engaging and enriching education
💙 Work in partnership with parents and guardians to help our pupils achieve their full potential
💙 Equip our pupils with a range of life skills - academic, vocational, social, creative, sporting and moral
💙 Build confidence and self-esteem and prepare our boys and girls for the next step in their education

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Wishing you all a happy weekend! Thank you to all of those who donated and wore something red for @rednoseday today and it was a pleasure to have Mickey and Minnie for a special guest visit us as well! ❤️ #mickeyandminnie #letsgetsilly #rednoseday #comicrelief #riverstonschool
Dotty has had a busy week at Riverston School. Here she has been catching up with Miss Smith who is our Inclusion Manager at Riverston School to discuss our SAFE Hub 🏫

The S.A.F.E (safe area for education) Hub is a fully resourced Centre for students struggling to engage with school due to factors not associated with behaviour. 

This could include mental health difficulties or heightened levels of anxiety where they require wrap around support while remaining within school. The S.A.F.E Hub works in tandem with our therapy Centre, where our therapy team will support the Pastoral Team in providing specialist intervention for students.

The S.A.F.E Hub includes a fully resourced calm room, which provides a nurturing, quiet sanctuary for children to withdraw to if the school day is becoming overwhelming. Within the S.A.F.E Hub classroom students will be supported in continuing with their studies, ensuring that they do not fall behind academically but feel safe and calm while they work. 

The end goal is always reintegration and so each student will have a carefully considered and thoughtful strategic plan to help them to return fully to the main body of the school when they are ready. The goal of the S.A.F.E Hub is to reduce absences caused by anxiety or mental health amongst our school community.

🐶 Dotty woofed in excitement to hear how well our SAFE Hub students are doing!
Last Saturday, Year 7 and 11 had the fantastic opportunity to experience the ISA Esports Competition held at DLD College on behalf of Daigon Esports.

The students really enjoyed the day, got the opportunity to try out something different, met with other schools to share their gaming experiences and even allowed some of their parents to join in the fun, who seemed to enjoy it just as much as them! 

The students were praised for their excellent behaviour and represented their school so well. Congratulations to one of the Year 11 teams who were runners up in the Rocket League Final.
Huge congratulations to our students from Year 11 who were runners up in Rocket League Final at the ISA Esports Competition last weekend. Well done boys! 💙 #isa #esports #riverstonschool
Childcare students have been brainstorming creative activities for children to do. They placed their ideas on their bespoke posters 🎴

#posters #childcare #creative #riverstonschool #furthereducation #BTEC #ALevel
Year 9 students had a brilliant time earlier this week visiting Lewisham Lanes Bowling Alley for their ASDAN trip🎳

#bowling #ASDAN #lifeskills #LewishamLanes #supportyoungindividuals #successforlife #innovate #include #inspire #inspiretoday
We were absolutely delighted to find out and receive news that we were recognised as one of the best schools in the UK for SEND by Talk Education.

Their article brilliantly illustrates what each school they have recognised do for supporting their students with SEND requirements.

If you would like to read more visit: https://lnkd.in/e_wVcqK2

#talkeducation #SEND #SEMH #riverstonschool
Year 8 students have been thoroughly enjoying this week’s activities as part of British Science Week👨🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬 

Here they have been making their own Bath Bombs with Ms Ezeji in the Lewis Hall.

#bathbombs #britishscienceweek #riverstonschool #science #chemicals

At Riverston we specialise in nurturing success for students aged 11-19, who have learning differences.

We have outstanding teachers, in school therapists, very small classes, and a multiple pathway curriculum that ensures each student finds their own success in our school and in life