valence school
Thank you for visiting the Valence School website. We are proud to share with
you the excellent work we do with children and young people who have physical
disabilities and complex medical needs. Our school is unique within the
maintained sector in the whole of southern England. We cater for students aged 4
to 19 and have both day and boarding places. We have a large site with high
quality teaching, social care and health care facilities. A staff team of over
200 people provides specialist teaching, social care, therapies and nursing care
to an exceptionally high standard. Our overall aim is to enable every child and
young person to achieve meaningful independence. Students flourish in a
supportive but challenging environment, making good educational progress and
achieving a range of accreditation as they get older. There is excellent support
to enable students to achieve functional communication, mobility and skills for
daily living. We are a Foundation Special School and are part of the Kent SEN
Trust, a cooperative trust of ten schools working together to improve outcomes
for all the children and young people attending the schools. In 2008 Valence
became a specialist Sports College and this status plays a significant role in
raising students’ achievements and their participation in high quality physical
education and sport. The School works proactively with parents and external
professionals to provide holistic support for every child and young person. It
is also developing high quality outreach support services to local schools and
more widely for children and young people in Kent who have physical disabilities
who are attending mainstream schools. The School always places children and
young people at the centre of all decisions it takes and it has a relentless
focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for every student. You can find
out about us through this website but can also visit to see the School first
hand!
