A Specialist Placement Primary school for children with severe emotional and/or behavioural difficulties (Severe EBD) who have the potential to return to mainstream school.
About Us
The Phoenix Park Specialist School is a specialist placement primary school for children with severe emotional and/or behavioural difficulties (Severe EBD) who have the potential to return to mainstream school. Our pupils benefit from high levels of staff support in a nurturing and inclusive environment. This in turn supports our pupils to access the curriculum in a meaningful way while also building and maintaining positive relationships.
News & Updates
Since Christmas we have celebrated many birthdays, shared the love for Valentines day, taken part in a sponsered walk for Laura Lynn, enjoyed breakfast in Douglas and Kaldi and had many walks down to the hole in the wall for hot chocolate
Phoenix Park School 2021 Christmas
Sanctuary Nurture Garden
Admissions
The school caters for children with a diagnosis of severe emotional and behavioural difficulties who also have a full scale IQ of 70 or above.
Students must be in the care of a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist for such conditions as neurosis, childhood psychosis, ADD, ADHD or conduct disorders that significantly impair their socialisation and/or learning in school.
Mission & Vision
The school aims to provide a quality learning environment that maximises educational opportunities for children. We aspire to develop high standards of behaviour in a caring, nurturing and safe environment where all pupils are provided with experiences that make them feel valued and respected.
We believe in nurturing emotional literacy in our school community and in helping children to recognise, understand, cope with and appropriately express emotions.
To maximise the potential for progress, the school expects the child’s primary carers and external agencies to work together with us in a collaborative and co-operative manner and to actively participate in supporting the child during their time in the school.
Services
The Phoenix Park Specialist School provides a specialist service for primary school aged children with a diagnosis of SEBD.
We have have a formal Nurture Group which is in operation for the duration of the school day which is run by two trained Nurture Group Specialists on our staff.
All staff are trained in Trauma Informed Practice strategies and approaches.
