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The team at Rainbow Hub are celebrating the success of their planning application to build a school for special educational needs children at their Mawdesley location. The planning application was submitted earlier this year and approval will see building commence at the end of July with completion scheduled for June 2024.
Rainbow Hub School will be an independent special school for children with neuro -disabilities including cerebral palsy. We believe that every child is entitled to an engaging, challenging and personalised curriculum which meets their unique profile of needs. We will provide an enriching, caring and safe family environment for our pupils to flourish and achieve their potential. Pupils will be challenged to use their mind and body with increasing efficiency to enable effective learning in every developmental area. We aim to provide a platform for life beyond Rainbow Hub School, developing independence, resilience, and skills for life.
There will be several therapy rooms, a ground level Rebound Therapy trampoline, an accessible life skills room and a hydrotherapy pool. The building has been designed with shared spaces which will be used by all the services across Rainbow Hub. They also plan to make the pool available to children and adults with disabilities outside of school hours.
An application to register as an independent special school has been submitted and they are now awaiting the pre-registration visit from Ofsted. When open, the school will initially offer places to children aged 5 – 11 with plans to extend to young people up to 16 years in the future.
Lyndsay Fahey, CEO, Rainbow Hub, said, “We are all delighted that the application has been successful and cannot wait for work to start. There’s been months of planning to get to this stage and many more months of planning to come but it is a very exciting time for us all. This development will allow us to extend the good work we already do in conductive education and our specialist nursery.”
