Royal Blind School

The Royal Blind School provides specialist education, care and learning to children and young people with visual impairment, including those with additional complex needs.

Our personalised approach to learning, care and education supports children and young people to maximise their potential and reach their goals. We enable children and young people, aged five to 23, to thrive and develop skills for life. Through our personalised approach we deliver a skills-based curriculum alongside formal qualifications.

We ensure that pupils have a broad range of opportunities and experiences to enable them to become successful learners, responsible citizens, confident individuals and effective contributors to society. We follow the Scottish Government’s curriculum for excellence.

We offer flexible education and learning options. We offer day, residential and respite places, adapting our provision to what will suit your child best. Your child can come to the Royal Blind School as a day student or live on campus in one of our homes from homes. We offer part-time and occasional placements for pupils from mainstream schools.

We’re flexible in our approach. Whether preparing for employment, making connections or learning to live as independently as possible, we enable children and young people to make their own goals a reality.

Support to make the right choice for your child. We will support you to make the right decision for your child. We recommend that you visit us before making an application in order to give you and your child or young person the chance to informally look around, ask questions and meet our team.

We’ll help you decide what kind of placement is right for your child. We work in partnership with local authorities and parents to assess how the school can meet the needs of each child or young person. We build close working links with parents, carers, and local authorities’ education and social work departments before, during and after referral and admission.

At the Royal Blind School, we offer a range of health and support services to pave the way for our pupils to get the most out of life. Our team work with each pupil to develop an individual programme to grow their confidence and independence. We can provide the following according to pupils’ individual needs:

• Hydrotherapy
• Physiotherapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech and language therapy
• Habilitation: navigation, mobility, orientation and independent living skills training
• Music therapy
• Mindfulness.