RIVERSTON
SCHOOL

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.

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Riverston Nursery

Riverston Nursery

Riverston Nursery and Early Years Department operates a morning, afternoon or a full day  programme for children aged 9 months to 4 years old.

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Riverston School

Riverston School

Our ethos and approach in the senior school remains focused on developing the unique skills, talents and abilities of every individual pupil with personalised education plans for everyone.

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Riverston College

Riverston College

Riverston College is our offering for students of 16 years and above with courses and programmes that allow our students to realise their ambitions and to progress further.

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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

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Today, we honor the incredible contributions of the African-Caribbean community on Windrush Day! 🌍✨ Let’s celebrate the resilience and spirit of those who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 #WindrushDay #LegacyOfHope #CaribbeanPride
The countdown till the Summer Holidays begins! 2 weeks left and we will be finishing on Friday 4th July 2025 at 12pm!
This week Ms Goodman has shared our Occupational Therapy form time programme, which focuses on the following task.

For this weeks OT form time program we are going to look at using a Calendar to help to plan and organise our activities. 

Activity
Please print off one of the attached sheets for each student. They are going to fill in the Calendar with the activities provided.
Depending on your class, each student can go ahead and complete the activity themselves, or your could read out each activity to be added the calendar, to the whole class, for them to add one event at a time. 

At the end - hold them up and see if they all look similar.

Discussion
How do you keep track of what you have coming up in the next week / month. How do you remember important dates and events coming up?
Do  you use a paper diary, a Calendar on the wall, Calendar on your phone , don’t use anything, other?
Do you rely on family or others to tell you what is happening each day?

You can view the activity sheets here: https://linktr.ee/riverstonschool
Hats off to our KS3 students for their fantastic progress in DT this academic year! 🎉 Excited to see how they’ll take their skills to the next level in 2025-2026! Let’s keep the creativity flowing! ✨ #CreativeMinds #DTJourney #NextGenCreators
Please see important upcoming dates for our school calendar.
Our Headmaster’s Welcome is now live in our latest newsletter! Discover the inspiring vision and updates that shape our community. Click the link in our bio to read more and stay connected! 📚✨ #SchoolCommunity #Leadership #Newsletter

At Riverston we specialise in nurturing success for students aged 11-19, who have learning differences.

We have outstanding teachers, in school therapists, very small classes, and a multiple pathway curriculum that ensures each student finds their own success in our school and in life