Welcome to Queensmill School website. We are very glad you are interested in our school. You will see from our site that we are a special school for children with a diagnosis of autism. We are an all-age school, having recently opened a secondary department in September 2009. Currently we are all housed in one building in Clancarty road, Fulham but from September 2010 the secondary department will be on a new site. Within the next few years we shall be moving to a new, purpose-built school that will house nursery, primary and secondary departments, funded by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham through the Building Schools for the Future programme. We are therefore entering a very exciting phase in our development.

I have been Head of Queensmill since September 2005. Since that time, we have been awarded the following:

1. Accreditation as a good autism provision from the National Autistic Society (this is reviewed and updated annually). This applies both to our school and to our Outreach Service, which was started in 2006 and which successfully supports the borough’s inclusion programme.

2. Healthy Schools’ status 2006

3. Marked “outstanding” by Ofsted in spring 2007

4. Investors in People 2007

5. Activemark 2007

6. Inclusion Quality Mark 2008

7. National Training Award (best Small Employer category) 2008.

The above reports and awards give an outside view of our achievements and strengths, and we are very proud of them. None of this would be possible without the dedication of staff and support of parents, carers, governors and the Local Authority. We are dedicated to providing an excellent service for our pupils, and in order to do this we have a vibrant training programme for our staff which keeps everyone’s skills and knowledge at a high level, and constant monitoring to ensure that standards remain high. We are supported in all of this by a strong team of therapists: Speech and Language, Occupational and Music.

It is a happy school where all staff have high expectations of themselves and of all of the children we teach, and were we strive to find individual solutions for each child so we can help them to cope with their autism and remain as calm as possible in order to participate and to learn.

I hope this website gives you some insights as to how we do this.

Jude Ragan (Mrs).

News Flash - It gives us great pleasure in announcing that Mrs Jude Ragan was awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen's New Years Honours. Click here to read more.