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Cedar House School is a 38 week co-educational residential and day special school, which caters for young people between 7 and 16 with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BSED), communication difficulties and various other special educational needs. The school is situated in the market town of Kirkby Lonsdale in the North West of England.

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"As a result of the good teaching and high standards of care, the pupils make good progress in their learning and outstanding progress in their personal and social development."
Ofsted 2008

PONTVILLE SCHOOL CELEBRATES IT’S CENTENARY

PONTVILLE SCHOOL CELEBRATES IT’S CENTENARY
Pontville School, a special school in West Lancashire, is celebrating one hundred years of educating and caring for young people who have speech, language and social communication difficulties.
The school was opened in 1910 by the Catholic Church to cater for up to 75 young people with special educational needs aged 9 to 19 and has seen many radical changes since then.
Since the school was taken over by the Witherslack Group 9 years ago, it has benefited from a full modernisation programme including specialist areas for literacy, numeracy, science, home economics, physical education, art and craft. A significant investment has also been made in ICT across the site to network all classrooms and install interactive whiteboards to enhance the curriculum and young peoples’ learning.
In the latest Ofsted inspection, Pontville was rated as Outstanding in all areas of education and care.
Iain Sim, Head Teacher at Pontville School, said: “The school has long track record of helping children with significant social communication and language impairment needs associated with autism.  Recent additions to our professional therapeutic team include speech and language therapists, an occupational therapist and additional therapeutic approaches such as meditation and relaxation.  This means Pontville is now a leading school in the UK for young people with these type of special educational needs.
“All subject areas in the school are designed to teach communication skills as a central theme to their content. By having this focus within the curriculum, skills that are difficult to transfer become more naturally acquired as they are practised in all lessons across the day and in the residential setting for those accessing this facility.”
“We will be having an Open Day to celebrate the centenary on the 23rd of July and parents, local authorities and any other people working within SEN are welcome to visit on the day to look at our provision.”
For more information about Pontville School call the school on 01695 578734 to attend the Open Day.