Mill Green School is an ‘outstanding’ special school in St Helens. Our young people have a range of significant difficulties and complex learning needs, including complex physical and medical needs. We offer an outreach service which aims to provide St Helens schools with expert support and advice.

As a specialist setting for young people with a range of complex needs, our outreach team have a broad range of skills and experience which enables us to provide bespoke support programmes for secondary schools within the borough. Colleagues in local schools are able to access a range of experienced specialist teachers who are supported by the whole school team. Through this support, we focus on enabling staff to support young people with complex needs confidently, with the appropriate skills, knowledge and understanding they need.

The purpose of our service is to provide outreach support to mainstream high schools to support the inclusion of pupils with cognition and learning difficulties, as well as physical disabilities within their own setting and to ensure that our local schools well equipped to support young people with additional needs across St Helens.

Aims of Outreach Service

We offer outreach support for mainstream high schools across St Helens

• To work with high schools in the borough to identify common needs and develop borough and school based projects and responses;
• To build the capacity of high schools to improve outcomes for young people with cognition and learning difficulties;
• To raise expectations in the quality of teaching and impact on learning to pupils with SEND;
• To practice support and modelling of inclusive classrooms and curriculum approaches.
• To share outreach practice and agree clear pathways for referral where appropriate.
• Team Teach / physical intervention training

To contact Mill Green School for support, please use the contact details below:

outreach@millgreen.org.uk or millgreen@millgreen.org.uk