Queensmead House School

About Queensmead House School

The stunning Queensmead House School is on the same site as the former Queensmead School, which has wonderful views of Windsor Castle and offers a truly inspirational environment for our young people. Queensmead House School is a co-educational, independent specialist day school, providing the highest standards of education and care for children and young people, between the ages of 11 and 19 years, with complex educational needs, communication difficulties and challenging behaviours. The school will be one of our largest, with capacity of up to 130 young people, 90 of whom will be in the Secondary provision. We would expect the school to reach optimum capacity by 2024; that’s 130 children and young people’s lives we can make a real difference to across the region!

Like all of our schools, Queensmead House School will benefit from excellent staffing ratios, highly resourced learning environments and endless academic and vocational options. The site has been a school since 1948 and our property team are working to ensure that it offers an inspirational learning environment where our young people can thrive. The school will include a full size sports hall, MUGA, and specialist classrooms for science, food technology, DT and computing. Pupils will be supported in small class sizes (maximum of 8), by well qualified and experienced staff who are able to offer an extensive range of academic, practical, vocational, sport and leisure activities, to support both a young person’s educational achievements and social and communication skills.

About Witherslack Group

We are dedicated to fulfilling the hope of every parent by releasing their child’s full potential.

We want every young person to get the most from life. We aim to maximise their opportunities while giving parents and carers peace of mind. At the same time, our expert blend of therapeutic, emotional and educational support provides unmatched value for local authorities. We focus on each child, giving them stability and support they need. Across all Witherslack Group settings, the model that we implement is our ‘Internal Team Around the Child (ITAC)’ approach. This approach ensures that young people have access to cohesive services and all the relevant practitioners concerned with an individual young person meet regularly. This ensures the services delivered are integrated, prioritised, coherent and achieve their intended outcomes.

We are the leading provider of specialist education and care for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs, communication difficulties (autistic spectrum conditions, Asperger’s Syndrome, speech, language and communication needs), complex learning needs and challenging behaviours. Seeing a young person learn, smile and grow is incredibly rewarding. At Witherslack Group you and your team will have far more than just a job, you'll have a career where you’re free and supported to grow with us!

About Windsor

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is 30 miles west of London and within 15 minutes’ drive of Heathrow Airport. Luton and Gatwick airports are within an hour's drive.

The whole of the Royal Borough is easily accessible via the major motorway networks of the M4, M3, M25 and M40 and is well served by public transport including two train stations, Windsor and Eton Central, and Windsor and Eton Riverside.

Located 30 miles west of London, 15 minutes' drive of Heathrow Airport and easily accessible via the motorway and public transport networks, the Royal Borough offers a fantastic base to stay packed with history and heritage, quality accommodation and a scenic riverside setting.

Top attractions

Windsor Castle, Windsor Great Park, Changing the Guard, Ascot Racecourse, Royal Windsor Racecourse, The Savill Garden, LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort, Cliveden

www.windsor.gov.uk – official visitor website for days out and short breaks