Welcome to our school website.  We hope that it will be a useful source of information for parents, relatives or friends who already have children at our school and for those who are thinking of joining us in the future.

If you are a pupil at our school I am sure you will have fun reading about our school and looking at the photographs of you and your friends!

We are very proud of our school and its many successes in all aspects of school life.  I hope as you explore our website that it will give you a clear insight into the life and work of our school and show you how the philosophy of our school with its strong commitment to high standards and its emphasis on developing each individual’s academic, social and personal potential to the full, impacts on everything we do.

We consider that our school is a very happy and dynamic place to learn in.  Our staff work extremely hard to achieve excellent standards of teaching and learning and continually review and reflect on their work in order to meet the needs of each individual.  We place great emphasis on the need for each child to develop the skills to be confident, adaptable, independent and self disciplined learners within a learning environment that celebrates success, promotes thinking and enables children to feel happy and secure.  Our most recent Ofsted report (December 2008) acknowledged our many strengths and high standards.  All members of our school community are actively encouraged to work together to meet the aims of our school and to ensure that each child receives the best possible education here, developing the skills and attitudes to continue learning as a life-long activity.

Skilts is a Residential Special School for primary age boys (National Curriculum Years 1-6; ages 5-11 years old) with emotional, social and behavioural difficulties with associated learning difficulties.

We are situated just outside Redditch in Worcestershire. The school is approximately 5 miles from the Birmingham boundary and is controlled by Birmingham Local Authority. We are open on weekdays and term time only, having a structure to currently support 62 pupils in the school day and 30 pupils each residential night.

We offer residential placement for up to 4 nights a week (hence pupils can stay 1, 2,3 or 4 nights, dependent upon their needs). Pupils have a wide variety of abilities from P Scales to Level 3-4, having general, rather than specific learning difficulties.

Pioneer Centre
On Wednesday 11th January 2012, some of the residential staff, namely Ann, Susan, Duncan and Emma took 9 boys to the Pioneer Centre in Cleobury Mortimer. The boys who went were Dalarno, Amaru, Jaimique, Braden, Damani, Sebastianl, Liam and Callum. We stopped off at the Wyre Forest and had some lunch before arriving at the Centre and being met by... Read more...

Tesco for Schools & Clubs
Collect your vouchers in-store from 12th March 2012! We had a good response to last years’ Tescos scheme which resulted in the school taking delivery of a selection ofThe Tesco for Schools & Clubs scheme enables schools and clubs to redeem vouchers from Tesco purchases for a variety of equipment. One voucher is given for every €10 spent in... Read more...

Sainsbury's Active Kids
Thanks to your help, in 2011 we collected a few hundred vouchers, with which managed to acquire additional sports and cooking equipment for the children. Sainsbury's are once again, in this Olympic year, promoting the Active Kids scheme. This year we’d like to be able to order more things from the Sainsburys Active Kids brochure and to do this,... Read more...

SuperKidz Mini-Enterprise
The pupils in Mrs Fazey’s class have been taking part in a mini enterprise project. The children have set up their own business “SuperKidz”and have been learning about how to run a business and the importance of having a positive work ethos. They have demonstrated their abilities to vocalise and share ideas, organise, market and advertise,... Read more...

3 Peaks Kitchen
On Wednesday 19th October 2011, many parents, families and guests were invited to the opening of the 3 Peaks Kitchen.   Situated in the previous office accommodation of Owl House, it was made possible by several staff members taking part in the 3 Peaks Challenge back in September/October 2010. For this they climbed Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell... Read more...