Lakeside School

Lakeside School is an independent, specialist day school providing high quality education for boys and girls. Based in Liverpool, the school meets the needs of pupils with special educational needs including ADHD, autism, speech, language & communication difficulties and social & emotional difficulties.

We pride ourselves on offering our pupils a family orientated environment, safe in the knowledge that in order for pupils to make progress academically, they need to feel comfortable in their surroundings. We offer high levels of support and encourage pupils to become independent, productive members of society.

Lakeside School is a co-educational, independent, specialist day school in Merseyside providing high quality education for children between the ages of 5 and 13. The school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with special needs including speech, language and communication difficulties, attention deficit disorder and social and emotional difficulties.

We are committed to providing our pupils with a caring, nurturing and positive learning environment for them to achieve their full potential in their education and develop their social communication.

The broad curriculum allows pupils to develop academically and at the same time we encourage them to find and build their individual talents and interests through experiencing a wide range of new activities.

‘Great things come in little packages’ – this is never truer than at Lakeside School where our close knit have created a truly nurturing and family orientated culture in a tranquil and homely setting. The school’s ambition is to ‘nurture every child’s talent to release their full potential’ and our track record is one of outstanding achievement, both in terms of academic progress and unrivalled outcomes for children who have been failed by previous educational settings. Our expertise and experience sets Lakeside apart and this is evidenced by both the schools ability to engage with every child and their record of returning children to mainstream education.

Lakeside School offers pupils a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum through which every child is given the opportunity to reach their full potential.

We believe in encouraging pupils’ self-esteem, which is often low when they start with us, by ensuring the curriculum and tasks set are achievable for them, thus enabling them to further thrive and develop.

Our aim is to foster an excitement and a real love of learning in all of our children. To help them engage effectively and thrive in their learning environment we endeavour to provide a curriculum that is individualised. In the core subjects, Maths, English and Science, children are taught according to their ability so that they are able to make rapid and sustained progress.

We also provide intervention programmes in Literacy and Numeracy to help pupils outside the classroom session to help increase confidence and progression.

We offer our ‘Children’s Choice’ curriculum which provides children the opportunities to develop skills and talents or explore new and exciting activities that could lead to a hobby or help realise a career aspiration. These include:

• Independent cooking
• Arts and crafts
• Gardening
• Drawing
• First Aid
• Singing
• Fishing
• Writing
• Rugby

Pupils in Key Stage 1 and 2 attend Lakeside School. We can also offer Key Stage 3 in exceptional circumstances. We provide a broad and balanced curriculum with opportunities for enrichment activities through educational visits and field trips, offsite activities such as swimming, trampolining, horse riding and our ‘Children’s Choice’ curriculum.

Our curriculum is individualised to each pupil. In addition to the provision of the full national curriculum, which includes intervention programmes where appropriate, we also offer our ‘Children’s Choice’ curriculum, which provides pupils with opportunities to develop skills and talents in areas such as golf, fishing, gardening, tennis, arts and crafts, rugby, horse riding, fitness, survival skills, dance, yoga and textiles.