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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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
💙The School’s Aims💙
💚 Provide a safe, supportive and caring environment in which to work.
👨🏻💻 Provide a contemporary, innovative, engaging and enriching education.
👦🏻 Equip our pupils with a range of life skills – academic, vocational, social, creative, sporting and moral.
🗣 Build confidence and self – esteem and prepare our boys and girls for the next step in their education.
🌍 Generate an understanding of the need for care and consideration for others within our community and the wider world.
🤝 Work in partnership with parents and guardians to help our pupils achieve their full potential.
May 6
This year is the 98th anniversary of our school which was founded in 1927 and later taken over in 1956 by Mr and Mrs Lewis senior.
In the Year of 2024 there have been many changes since the school was first founded and we are proud to be a inclusive school community in the Borough of Greenwich🏫💙✨
If you would like to find out more about our school, visit our website: riverstonschool.co.uk
May 4
Immensely proud of our students who were responsible as well as being sensible individuals when they visited Eltham High Street earlier this week as part of their life skills.
They stopped off at various high street stops to learn how to ask for items, pay for them and to use different payment methods for goods. Whilst understanding the local bus route to take via the bus stop just outside our school.
#lifeskills #riverstonschool #eltham #greenwich
May 3
One of our talented KS4 Students created a wonderful art masterpiece, taking inspiration from graffiti art to create their artwork. We were amazed and in awe of the creativity of this piece!🎨🖌️
#artwork #creativity #graffiti #riverstonschool #KS4 #graphicdesign #innovate #include #inspire
May 3
Year 9 ASDAN students have been excelling in their modules, one of the latest things they have been learning is how to use scales correctly as they made salt dough. Ensuring that they use the correct quantity of ingredients to make the dough 🍞
#ASDAN #lifeskills #saltdough #riverstonschool #greenwich
May 2
Fantastic pictures of our year 9’s students recent visit to Frylands Wood Outdoor Centre. It was brilliant to see how confident our students were in learning Archery and practicing shooting targets with the help of instructors 🎯
#archery #target #riverstonschool #outdoorlearning #frylandswood
May 1
