The Redway School, Milton Keynes
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Netherfield
| city = Milton Keynes
| county = Buckinghamshire
| country = England
| postcode = MK6 4HG
| local_authority = Borough of Milton Keynes
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| urn = 110592
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| enrolment = ~100
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| upper_age = 19
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The Redway School is an all-age (2–19) state special school for children and young people who experience severe learning difficulties, serving the children of the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated in the Netherfield district of southern Milton Keynes.
History
The school opened on 26 April 1993, upon the closure of Oliver Wells (Physical Difficulties) and Queens (Severe Learning Difficulties) Schools. Until September 1993, the school had two sites, in Netherfield and at the Queens campus on Whalley Drive, Bletchley. From September 1993 and until about February/March 1997 the school occupied the Whalley Drive site whilst the Netherfield site was extended and refurbished.
The reason that the extension and refurbishment took so long was that the first scheme was not allowed to go ahead. It was called off in January 1994 by the Department for Education (DfE). This was because the local education authority, then Buckinghamshire County Council, had not complied with all the DfE requests and had not listened to the parents.{{cite web |url=http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/redway-evolution00/home.html |title=The Evolution of The Redway School }}
From 1 April 1997 the school became the responsibility of Milton Keynes City Council.
Inspections
In February 2003 Ofsted's annual report named The Redway as a "particularly successful school".{{cite web |url=http://www.archive2.official-documents.co.uk/document/deps/ofsted/hc286/286-pre.htm |title=Standards and Quality in Education 2000/01 |publisher=www.archive2.official-documents.co.uk |accessdate=2009-11-03 }} {{As of|2024}}, the school's most recent inspection was in 2023, with a judgement of Good.{{cite web |last1=Petch |first1=Jo |title=Inspection of a good school: The Redway School |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50228359 |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=29 February 2024 |date=2023}}
References
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Further reading
- {{Ofsted|110592|The Redway School}} at Ofsted
External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.theredway.net/pages/home/index.php |title=The Redway School - Welcome|publisher=www.theredway.net |accessdate=2009-10-21 }}
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Category:Special schools in Milton Keynes
Category:Educational institutions established in 1993