Author: Kayleigh Mcleod

A visit from Cate Duffy

Last week, Arbour Vale School had a visit from Cate Duffy, Strategic Director Children, Learning and Skills for Slough Borough Council to see what some of our students are up to during lockdown. Cate said “Lovely visit to Arbour Vale …
29th May 2020

Another published article for our Ambassador for Autism

Earlier in the year, someone from Equine Leadership, an internationally authored and read magazine about horses from Canada, got in contact with our Ambassador for Autism, Murray, about writing an article. To read the article, please click here.
30th March 2020

Coffee Mornings at Arbour Vale House

Students from the Post 16 Department have run Coffee mornings for different people at Arbour Vale House on weekly basis this term. This has been a fantastic opportunity for students to develop vocational skills in a simulated real life environment. …
16th March 2020

Ambassador for Autism

They say every day is a school day, and one of our students continues to teach us so much about advocacy and resilience. Murray joined Arbour Vale in 2015 and he’s now in his second year of Post 16. Murray …
29th January 2020

Students flaunt their Nomination Certificate for the 2019 Bronze Finalists Industrial Cadets Award

Arbour Vale School is the ‘first SEN school’ to deliver the Industrial Cadets Go4Set programme. Supported by mentors from AkzoNobel and their teachers, the students decided to choose the topic ‘The Business of Recycling’ as they had previously studied pollution …
19th December 2019

Westminster Insight Ofsted Conference

Don Blaylock, Assistant Head at Arbour Vale School closed Westminster Insight Ofsted conference last month. Don said “it was a great honor to be asked to be involved in this and I really enjoyed the conference.”
19th December 2019

A visit from Caldicott

It was with great excitement that Arbour Vale School invited Caldicott to join in for some festive fun before the school holidays. Many of the children from Arbour Vale have visited Caldicott in the past to play cricket with the senior …
18th December 2019

Road safety banners for Slough Council

Slough Borough Council’s sustainable transport team Better by, supplied primary schools throughout the borough with a blank poster for pupils to create a simple and bold design based around road safety. Two school pupils have won a competition to design …
18th December 2019

The Business of Recycling

OUR PROJECT by students at Arbour Vale School  THE BUSINESS OF RECYCLING Why we chose it We chose this topic because our school uses a lot of material and since we are focusing on recycling and keeping our earth clean, …
28th August 2019

Katie Riding to Success

Huge congratulations goes out to one of our Year 9 students, Katie Gillard.  Katie competed in the RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) National Championships on 13th July 2019 at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire. I am so pleased to announce, …
24th July 2019

Arbour Vale School Enterprise Week and Market Day

Arbour Vale School recently held its Enterprise Week, a key feature of the school’s Careers Programme. The week was an opportunity for all pupils to develop their skills in communication, money handling, leadership, creativity and vocational awareness. Each class planned …
4th July 2019

Waldon Day

We had a highly successful ‘Waldon Day’ at Arbour Vale School. Carol Mannion, a Waldon practitioner and contributing author of ‘‘Every Child Can Learn’, came to share her expertise and facilitated the sessions. She shared her knowledge and has really …
15th June 2019