Welcome and thank you for visiting. We believe our School is a model for the special school of the twenty first century. With enormous pride we would like to share with you Blackfriars Newcastle which is situated in pleasantly wooded grounds near the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme. In our most recent Ofsted Inspection the inspectors graded us as outstanding, calling us:

……a very reflective school that provides an excellent quality of education…..the school’s great strength lies in its ability to balance the promotion of pupils’ personal development with stretching their intellectual capability..

Currently we have pupils from the age of six to sixteen but over the next few years we will gradually become purely a secondary school. The School has particular skill and expertise in working with pupils who have physical and medical difficulties, communication problems and complex needs but accepts pupils with any special needs.

The School has worked hard to achieve national recognition of its success and is proud to have the following status:

• A Vocational School (now known as Applied Learning)
• A Performing and Visual Arts College
• Investors in People
• Every Person Matters
• ICT Charter Mark
• Healthy Schools Award
• Sportsmark
• The Lead School in the Leading Edge Partnership Programme
• A Staffordshire Key Learning Centre with extensive outreach work

Our vision is one that increasingly takes us beyond the confines of the school walls and is allowing us to interact and be known not only locally but also regionally, nationally and internationally.