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All Things SEN is a small business that provides specialised education services to learners with SEN in Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire and Bristol. Based at The Quay in Sharpness, our 'mini-school' model is designed to address the challenges faced by so many children and young people who are currently not managing to access full-time education. Our primary goal being eventual reintegration into an appropriate full-time setting, All Things SEN provides a broad and balanced curriculum delivered by highly experienced teachers and mentors to a maximum of 13 hours per week. We also offer careful transition planning and practical support (where possible) to enable learners to transition into their next educational setting. 

All Things SEN provides education services to learners from 5-19. We are careful in how we group our learners, ensuring all content and activities are age-appropriate, and that cohorts reflect the individual abilities, challenges and personalities of each member. 

All Things SEN provides education services to learners with a wide range of special needs including Autism,  ADHD, sensory processing disorders, SEMH, global developmental learning delay, Downs Syndrome, demand avoidance and generalized school anxiety. We have worked extensively with individuals with varying levels of communication difficulties, and equally with individuals experiencing profound sensory dysregulation. We also have a long history of working successfully with various behavioral difficulties. 

No, The Quay is not a school.

However, since all of our staff worked previously at a special school, and are trained and highly experienced educationalists, we run very much like a school. From our site at Sharpness Docks we operate a school-type timetable, with a mixture of academic subjects (English, Maths, and topic lessons covering History, Science etc.), arts and crafts (eg. painting, music, handwork) and practical life-based skills (eg. horticulture, cooking etc). Alongside the educational aspect, we pay close attention to sensory regulation skills, communication issues, social learning, and emotional literacy - our aim is to help children and young people re-engage with classroom learning but we recognize there may be any number of personal-development issues to be addressed with equal priority. 

Group sizes are extremely small, and there is a high staff-learner ratio. 

As an unregistered Alternative Provision we cannot legally offer full time placements. We offer 2 full day placements 9am-3:30pm, either Tuesday and Wednesday, or Thursday and Friday.

We may be able to offer transport with our staff. Please enquire for availability and costings.

No! Annie is an independent Occupational Therapist and works for us as a consultant from her home in South Africa.  Annie's many years of experience dealing with sensory integration issues has always been hugely beneficial to our approach, but she also able to offer assessments and OT programmes to learners who are not attending The Quay. In such an instance, experienced members of the All Things SEN team support the completion of assessment activities with the child or young person at school or at home, which are then shared with Annie to inform her assessment and reports.