INCLUDE | INNOVATE | INSPIRE
Welcome to Riverston School
Our Aims and Ethos
Riverston School provides a warm, caring and stimulating environment where children will learn new skills. We excel at providing each child with the right skills to prepare them for life in the wider world. We are part of a community characterised by a profound respect for and encouragement of diversity, where important differences among children and adults are celebrated. What drives us is ensuring that children have the best possible life chances and that they are not limited by the perceptions of themselves and what they might achieve in life.
Explore Riverston School
HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME
I am delighted to welcome you to Riverston School and College. If we have the pleasure of you visiting in person, you will quickly see we are a very unique setting with the reality of inclusion at our core. We are an independent school in the heart of London, and reflect the diversity that surrounds us. Our students reach across all abilities and backgrounds. Our small classes and nurturing environment provides the platform for success that a traditional educational setting cannot provide. Many of our students come from a place of broken relationships with the school system, difficult experiences in their peer relationships or a lack of empathy and understanding from professionals working with them. We look to repair relationships and trust in the school system so that students feel safe enough, and happy enough, to reach their academic potential.
Our extensive therapy team including drama therapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy, allow us to cater for students with wide ranging needs, including those with mental health difficulties as well as learning needs. We offer a broad and rich curriculum which includes GCSEs, A Levels and BTECs, alongside a range of life skills courses that help prepare our young people for life beyond secondary education. Our future focused ethos means we take a very child centred approached and look to tailor our provision to the needs of each individual, leading them to where they want be in adulthood. Whether that is further education, employment or simply being able to live independently, our focus is on the child and family voice and their hopes and aspirations. We very much hope you will have the chance to visit our fantastic school, so we can show you our ethos and values in practice.
Guy Baker, Headteacher
As a department we aim to create an atmosphere of learning and enjoyment which challenges the able whilst supporting, with the help of our learning support staff, those who need it. We want all the pupils to feel included and motivated.
Pupils are encouraged to take an active role in the learning process through a lively mixture of discussion, reading and writing. We aim to enable the pupils to become independent and critical readers of stories, poetry, drama as well as non-fiction and media texts. All pupils will have the opportunity to enter poetry and writing competitions. Pupils will also have the opportunity to watch drama through theatre trips or films. Pupils are taught in ability sets.
At Key Stage 3, the development of good language and literacy skills is a priority for us. Creative Writing and Literacy Skills lessons are timetabled, as well as stand-alone English lessons. At Key Stage 4 and 5 we follow the AQA and Edexcel syllabi which offer courses including: Entry Level English, Functional Skills, GCSE English and GCSE English Language and Literature. Students are taught in ability sets. There is also the option to study A Level English at Riverston College.
Nov 5
In our reception area we now hold items for the Poppy Appeal for the Royal British Legion 🇬🇧
If you are stopping by the main reception, donations are all welcome for contribution towards the Royal British Legion ❤️
(Please note that if students bring in donations they cannot take a poppy with a pin due to health and safety reasons).
Nov 4
We hope that everyone is having a fantastic half term break & we look forward to welcoming you all back next week!
With that being said we look forward to all of our activities that are scheduled in the school calendar. To make a note in the diary of our school events, visit our website: https://riverstonschool.co.uk/
Oct 29
Wow - It has been fantastic to see our school community return to kick off this academic year on a high!
With that being said we would like to invite families and their children to come visit our close-knit community for our upcoming open days.
To book your place please visit: https://riverstonschool.co.uk/admissions/open-days-registration/
☎️0208 813 4327
📧office@riverstonschool.co.uk
Oct 28
Riverston School provides outstanding expertise and support for these children and their families from our multi-disciplinary team offering in-depth assessment, diagnosis and therapy input as well as providing bespoke learning programmes.
Our team includes speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, a counsellor, specialist teachers and learning support assistants.
🌐www.riverstonschool.co.uk
📞0208 813 4327
📧office@riverstonschool.co.uk
#riverstonschool #greenwich #ASD #Dyslexia #ADHD #Autism #SEND #SEN #SEMH
Oct 25
We are delighted to be able to announce and celebrate the first Head Student at Riverston School in a number of years✨
In one of our most recent newsletters, Mr Baker noted:
“Marcus has been a longstanding member of the Riverston community, having attended since year 7 and serving as a role model to the community. It was clear early on in the process, that included a written application and interview as well as a whole school presentation, that Marcus was driven and ambitious to succeed. I was particularly impressed by his presentation to the main school, where Marcus showed off some really impressive public speaking skills. These are the skills that I am certain the process will enhance and develop”.
Oct 22
