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Gender
Mixed
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Specialism
SEMH
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Location
Essex
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Ages
11-16
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Type
Day
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Capacity
20
Cambian Great Dunmow School is an independent specialist provision that provides relevant, positive and high-quality education experiences and support for your child. We cater for children and young people aged 11 to 16 with ongoing social, emotional and mental health difficulties with associated complex needs.
Most of the learners that come to us have had negative experiences in prior educational settings and as a result this impacts on both academic achievement and social confidence. Our specially trained staff provide a warm, nurturing and caring school environment that allows children and young people to feel safe and valued as individuals.
Student Profile
Students attending the school may have been placed in the care of Cambian Group or accommodated under other Local Authorities. Some will have statements of Special Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) and be placed from local authorities on a day school placement.
Students may present or be diagnosed with:
- SEMH needs / ACEs
- Challenging behaviour
- Likely history of placement or family breakdown
- Attachment disorder
- Low or no attendance in education
- Self-Harming behaviours
- Without EHCP
- Criminal record
- CSE / CCE
March 2025
Ofsted Inspection Report
"The school has established thorough processes to ensure pupils’ SEMH needs are routinely reviewed and supported. It equips staff with the information that they need to know how best to help pupils. Pupils are more settled because their needs are better identified and met. Pupils who struggled to engage, now learn productively for extended periods of time. They show more resilience and pride in their work."
Our school places a strong emphasis on supporting learners to become emotionally resilient, self -confident and positive. For us safeguarding is a top priority and is fully embedded in our ethos policies, systems and practice. We foster teamwork, community collaboration and promote fundamental British values of democracy, mutual respect, individual liberty, tolerance and rule of law.
Our broad and balanced curriculum consists of a range of academic, social and vocational elements that builds on prior knowledge and develops essential life skills. We organise our learning experiences in small groups, with personalised programmes, that are tailored to the support needs, interests, aspirations and abilities of individual students. We motivate learners through reward and reinforcement of positive choices, alongside efforts towards academic progress and their individual goals. We prepare our students to enjoy and achieve in order to become confident and reach their full potential.
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