Valance School

Valence reception is open from 8am to 6pm

Address

Valence School

Westerham

Kent

TN16 1QN

Telephone

School Reception

Tel:  01959 562156

Fax:  01959 565046

Email:  valence@valence.kent.sch.uk

Mission Statement

Student’s views and rights are central to the ethos of Valence School.

Its mission is to provide a learning community where there is quality education, care, access and therapy in order to promote each student’s intellectual, physical, social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Our work is about enabling children and young people who have special physical, medical and sensory needs to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding together with the confidence, self-esteem and self dependence necessary for them to participate in and contribute to society in the way each chooses.

The School’s aims are to:

1. Meet the individual needs of each student as documented in their individual Statements of Special Educational Needs.

2. Maintain and develop in students lively enquiring minds; to promote the ability to question and argue rationally; to encourage students to apply themselves to a range of tasks and skills.

3. Provide a multidisciplinary approach to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum that meets individual needs with full access and accreditation.

4. Raise students’ self esteem and self-confidence and create in them a sense of personal excellence enabling them to acquire knowledge and skills relevant to life in a fast-changing world.

5. Help students to develop self knowledge, spiritual and moral awareness and understanding and respect for other people’s feelings, values and beliefs.

6. Help students to understand the multicultural world in which they live as citizens and the inter-dependence of individuals, groups and nations and the rights and responsibilities of living in today’s Britain.

Charter of Rights

Whilst children and young people are at Valence School they have the right :-

1. To reliable adults who can be trusted to care for them.

2. To be accepted for who they are – their name, their family, their religion, their race, their culture, their beliefs, their sex, their age and to be respected as a person.

3. To expect the adults caring for them to protect them from predictable and preventable harm and to stop them from hurting others.

4. To be treated as an individual and not one of a crowd. To expect the adults caring for them to behave with kindness and understanding and to be fair and honest with them.

5. To have appropriate boundaries and controls on their behaviour.

6. To an environment in which they are nurtured and given high standard care, education, therapy and other opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and interests.

7. To have appropriate time, space and some privacy for themselves.

8. To understand why they are placed at Valence School and the aims of the placement.

9. To have a say in what happens to them and to be involved in making decisions and plans for their life, which are based on their personal circumstances and their individual needs.

10. To know how to complain if things go wrong, and to have their complaint heard and dealt with.