Removing obstacles and enabling access to learning.

Head teacher: Mrs Lyn Dance
The Milestone School
Longford Lane;
Gloucester .
GL2 9EU
Telephone:               01452 500499       
 

Fax: 01452 500602

The Milestone is a Leading Edge school and is one of the biggest of its type in the country. We offer many specialisms, including curriculum adaptation for children with special educational needs, Conductive Education, provisions for Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Social Use of Language Programme.

The school offers the full National Curriculum as a basis for curriculum development, and adds to this a wide range of additional activities for personal and social growth.

Links with mainstream schools are developed through joint projects in certain subjects across the key stages. Our integration programme is important in ensuring that children who are transferring to mainstream are supported throughout the transition.

By virtue of its distinctive blend of expertise, facilities and resources, The Milestone School plays a significant role in the network of services the Education Authority provides for meeting the special educational needs of pupils in Gloucestershire. The school provides advice and support for teachers of pupils with physical and learning disabilities in mainstream school.

Following two successful Beacon School projects, The Milestone School has subsequently been awarded Leading Edge status. This will involve working with another special school and local secondary schools in order to share expertise.

The Milestone School was awarded Specialist School status in July 2008. 

The school’s specialist areas are Communication and Interaction. 

The Milestone School received an OFSTED Inspection in September 2006. A copy of the full report is available on-line at the OFSTED website. (see Web Links page)

The overall judgement was that Milestone School is a good school with a number of outstanding features.
We achieved outstanding in the following areas:
*Care and guidance for pupils
*Pupil Personal Development
*Working in partnership with other agencies

Some quotes from the inspection report: -

"Good teaching, together with an effective curriculum, ensures that the needs of each pupil are met."

"All pupils make good progress and achieve well from their starting points."

"The superb work related curriculum prepares them extremely well to be independendent and develops their understanding of how to look after themselves when they leave school."

"Throughout their time at school pupils make excellent progress in their personal development, including their development of spiritual, moral, social and cultural awareness. Their enjoyment of school is obvious and they greet each other and staff with smiles and waves."

 

The school was awarded Sportsmark 2007 and we are pleased to display the logo on our website.

 

 

 

 

The school is situated next to the Rugby club field and playground on Longford Lane.

Type the school postcode (GL2 9EU) in the search bar at www.googlemaps.co.uk

This should display the Rugby club field and you will see the school buildings next to it. Use the 'directions' option to display directions to the school from your point of origin.

Please take care when driving into the site. Be aware that pupils may be crossing from school buildings to the playground areas around the site.

Visitor and disabled parking bays are available at the front of the school site. Please do not park in the designated minibus parking bays or in areas designated for school transport.