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Welcome to our School
What do we do?
We are an all age specialist centre for pupils with severe sight loss. All of our teaching staff are experienced and qualified teachers of the Visually Impaired. Our support staff are also all trained to a very high standard.
We are committed to providing an exciting, stimulating and highly differentiated learning programme for all of our students and to ensuring that each child is supported to reach his or her potential. We provide both a mainstream curriculum, personalised to meet each child’s visual and learning needs, and the additional specialist subjects of braille, mobility, perceptual development and Independent Living Skills. Every student leaves the school with a range of accreditation and qualifications to help them make their way in the world.
Priestley Smith School caters for children between the ages of 2 and 16+ years, delivering nursery education, Foundation Stage and Key Stages 1, 2, 3, and 4. We hope in the near future also to provide education for Sixth Form students.
Where Are We?
Priestley Smith School is located in new accommodation on the site of Perry Beeches mainstream schools in Great Barr, Birmingham. The campus includes Perry Beeches Nursery, Infant, Junior and Secondary schools. Our buildings are purpose-built for visually impaired students and are very well resourced to meet their needs, providing the specialist equipment they require to access the curriculum.
In addition there are Leisure Point facilities and Artsites Birmingham
Priestley Smith School is a city-wide provision. Students attend our school from all areas of Birmingham and also from surrounding Local Authorities, including Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
Have a look at our contact us page for more information on our location.
Our Ofsted Report
The school was inspected by Ofsted in May 2009.
Here are some extracts from the report:
“Priestley Smith School provides a good education for its students so that they make good academic progress and achieve outstanding personal development.”
“Pastoral care is excellent which means that students feel safe and cherished by staff. Relationships are very warm throughout the school, and classrooms are harmonious, good-humoured places of learning.”
