- Dawn House School
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Ican Centre with Dawn House School Established 1974 Religion non denominational Principal Angela Child Head of Education Heather Benjamin Specialism Speech and Language Difficulties Location Helmsley Road
Rainworth
NG21 0DQ
United KingdomDfE URN 122956 Ofsted Reports Students 80 Gender mixed Ages 5–19 Colours Blue, Yellow Website Official Website Coordinates: 53°07′N 1°08′W / 53.12°N 1.13°W
Ican Centre with Dawn House School (commonly referred to as Dawn House) is a special school run by the charity I CAN, for children with speech and language difficulties. It is located at Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, just next to Sherwood Forest. It is a mixed school accommodating both residential and day pupils between the ages of four and nineteen.
The current head teacher is Angela Child who succeeded Anne Jordan on October 21, 2010.
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Specialisms
The school is primarily for children with speech and language difficulties which it designated as. The school officially started to accept students with Asperger syndrome in 2010, however many students before had it. The school also takes students with challenging behaviour, social and communication disorders, Pathalogical demand avoidance and moderate learning disabilities.[1]
Many of the Students also have epilepsy which results in a high number of call outs to East Midlands Ambulance Service (12 in 2009-10).[2]
School
The school opened in 1974 and has students from year 5 to year 11 with an average class size of 12 The school has a small swimming pool and hall and a medium sized playground. Dawn House is one of the few schools that have blocked access to Wikipedia and imposes strict punishments for students attempting to use the site.
Further Education
The further education department officially known as the Vodafone UK Foundation Study Centre opened on the 29th March 2006 and has around 30 students. It runs from year 12 to year 14 and has a range of abilities from below entry level to A-level students. Many of the students attend Vision West Notts and Portland College on a part time basis. The department's specialist subject is media although this is not official.
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Categories:- Special schools in Nottinghamshire
- Educational institutions established in 1974
- 1974 establishments in England
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