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Main School Building	Amphitheatre	The Woodlands: Student Accommodation

Bradstow School is a residential school, maintained by the London Borough of Wandsworth, for children aged between 5-19 years, who are severely disabled with autism. Many also have challenging behaviour as a result of the difficulties their autism gives them.

The school is located on a large self-contained site of over 13 acres set in beautiful park land, that provides many  opportunities for both work and leisure.

There are two aspects to the school that permeate everything we do and plan for.

Language and Communication

The school regards it as vital that pupils are given the communication skills to enable them to share with others their wants and needs, hopes and fears. To do this the school uses a wide range of support tools ranging from tangible objects of reference, to visual cues and symbols, to the written, spoken and signed word.

Behaviour Management

The school has developed a comprehensive behaviour management system that provides every pupil with the support they need to access both learning and life in the wider community.

All at Bradstow recognise that these aspects are, in reality two sides of the same coin, and that the vast majority of situations that present challenges to our pupils, have as the root cause some form of communication difficulty. It is the recognition of this fact, and the comprehensive manner in which the school has focused upon addressing the issues that flow from it, that has resulted in the considerable success that has been achieved with the vast majority of pupils.

A Poem About An Autistic Brother

Below is a link to a poem written by the twin sister of one of the students currently at Bradstow School.  It gives an insight into how she sees her autistic brother

My Brother Ayman

Bradstow: EFQM Prize Winner In Customer Focus: Sept 2009

Bradstow Achieves IIP Champion Award : Jan 2010