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Distinct and personalised pathways, designed and built around each child’s needs.

One shared commitment to helping every child thrive.

Welcome to The Holden School

At The Holden School, we believe that children must feel safe, understood, and emotionally secure before they can truly begin to learn and thrive. Through our two specialist provisions, we offer personalised, neuro-affirming pathways that support pupils with Autism and SEMH needs in overcoming barriers such as school avoidance. By putting relationships at the heart of everything we do, we help our students rebuild their confidence, re-engage with education, and develop the essential skills they need for a successful adulthood.

Our Specialist Pathways

Firs Lane Pathway – Complex Autism with additional communication and sensory needs.

Calm, relational, neuro-affirming provision designed for children with autism, communication and sensory needs.

Chapel Street Pathway -Autism with SEMH & preparation for adulthood.

A highly relational secondary and post-16 pathway supporting emotionally based school avoidance, SEMH and preparation for adulthood.

Explore Our Pathways

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Testimonials

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The Holden School and its team are the best school I have ever worked with. two of my children, with complex trauma, ADHD and social, emotional and behavioural difficulties successfully attend the Holden School full time. The Holden school has truly given them a sense of belonging, community and pride in themselves.

Due to numerous school placement breakdowns and sometimes a lack of understanding of my children’s needs, I truly felt worried for their future in education and was desperate to find them a place where they could belong and thrive, I have found this place in the Holden School. They have never given up on my boys and they both love going to a school where they are surrounded by a genuine warmth, love and understanding from the team at The Holden School. The team know my boys inside and out and I never have to worry if they are being misunderstood or if they are learning and developing.

I simply cannot thank The Holden School enough for what you have given to my children, they are finally achieving, succeeding and most importantly, believing in themselves.

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Service Manager

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