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Burlington House Sixth Form: A Five-Year Milestone in Specialist Education
Burlington House Sixth Form: A Five-Year Milestone in Specialist Education We’re proud to launch the first in a new series of short films exploring life at Burlington House School’s Sixth Form – a setting that has redefined what specialist post-16 education can look like for neurodivergent learners. Now, five years in, our Sixth Form has…
Burlington House School TES Awards shortlist announced
Ms Leyva has been shortlisted for the Tes Awards 2025 The UK’s best teachers and schools have been shortlisted in this year’s Tes Schools Awards. The awards, dubbed the ‘Oscars of education’, celebrate the best of education across the country. Ms Leyva has been shortlisted in the category of Teaching Assistant of the Year!…
Top 1% Achievement: Sixth Form Earns National Recognition for Value-Added Success
Burlington House School, Sixth Form is thrilled to announce an exceptional milestone: earning a place in the Top 1% nationally for Value Added, highlighting the incredible progress of students and the dedication of the staff who support them.Value Added is a significant measure in education, as it tracks the academic progress of students from their…
Executive Functioning – What is it? And how you can help?
Our lead therapists Ms Kerrigan and Ms Capewell talk us through executive functioning and how we can help at Burlington House and how you can help at home. Executing functions are a set of mental skills that include organisation, attention and planning. This includes impulse control, emotional control and working memory. We all use these…
Best of the Best! Burlington House School wins best SEN School – The Week Independent Schools Guide
The Week magazine has named Burlington House School as the winner in its SEN category for its 2024 independent school guide. The magazine has recognised the incredible work done at Burlington with a focus on its intergrated therapy suppory and gaining the best GCSE results for an SpLD specialist in the UK. “The school’s learning…
A-Level Milestone Achieved by Dyslexia Specialist Sixth Form
Burlington House School is delighted to announce an excellent set of results for their Sixth Form students. The headline statistics are as follows: 90% of the A-level results are A*- C These are the best A Level results received at Burlington House Sixth Form since its inception in 2019. 92% of the BTEC level 3…
Therapy Tip of the Week
Our words and the way we express ourselves can profoundly affect both the young people we work with and the staff members we engage with. Therefore transitioning from more conventional language to a trauma-informed description of vulnerable individuals can create: Compassion instead of Blame Hope instead Hopelessness Connection rather than Disconnection
Burlington House School GCSE Results 2023
We are excited to share with you some highlights from Burlington House School’s GCSE exam results this year. We are very proud of everything these young people have strived to achieve and we wish them the best, whether they are staying with us at Burlington House Sixth form, or moving on to new institutions and…
The meaningful impact of sustained work experience for students with unique learning profiles
“Every young person is unique, it sounds a bit cheesy but it’s obviously true. And yet despite that I have spent 14 of my 17 years working in colleges where I have often seen the offer to be more like ‘a one size fits all approach’. Of the many examples I could choose to write…
Sovereign Comics Launch – Steve Proctor
What a fantastic success Monday night was, nobody has ever launched a comic, exhibited art and showcased an internship programme all at the same time before! One of those maybe, two no way, but all three? Never – done – before!!! Well done to you all who pulled it off and ran such an amazing…
