Partnerships
St John’s Catholic Specialist School is proud to partner with:
National Association of Special School (NASS)
Wharf Valley Learning Partnership
Catholic Diocese of Leeds Schools
York College
Askham Bryan College
Skills for Living and The Arc
Accreditations
We believe in supporting the child entirely and holistically, which means protecting and enhancing their mental health and well-being as well as their educational, social and physical well-being. We were therefore thrilled to be awarded the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools ‘School Mental Health Award’ – Gold Status.
This prestigious accreditation recognises that St John’s takes a whole school approach to mental health and work towards improving emotional health and wellbeing for both our staff and pupils which is essential in helping them achieve their goals.
St John’s Catholic Specialist School also holds the National Autistic Society’s Accreditation Award.
The Autism Accreditation Programme is the UK’s only autism-specific quality assurance programme of support and development for those providing services to autistic people. In an application process taking two years and involving audits, observations, interviews and other information collecting, St John’s School has achieved the accreditation necessary for proving that an organisation is committed to understanding autism and setting the standard for autism practice.
Wharf Valley Learning Partnership
The schools in this area have a long established practice of working closely together within the Elmete Partnership of Schools & Services (EPoSS) Family of Schools. Nine of these schools (as listed above) took this collaboration further in January 2014 by setting up The Wharfe Valley Learning Partnership (WVLP).
The Partnership is a Cooperative Educational Trust, enabling each school to keep its unique identity and autonomy, whilst simultaneously working closely together to benefit our children, young people and communities.
Together, these popular and successful schools – rated good or outstanding by OFSTED – have a very secure base on which to build a strong, effective partnership. The Governing Bodies of these schools believe that a Trust of this kind is the best way to ensure the long term, sustainable collaboration that is required to meet our common aims.
The WVLP seeks to develop practice across the schools to further enhance the provision and opportunities available to our children and young people, maintaining and improving their already high standards of attainment and achievement. It collaborates closely with other organisations, such as Leeds City Council services and providers of higher education and others, so that we can serve our children, young people, families and communities most effectively.