💡Such an inspirational and thought-provoking session from former professional cricketer Andrew Patterson sharing powerful perspectives on resilience and purposeful reflection.
We’re excited to embrace his motivational messages and put them into practice💪
#OrchardHillCollege #Resilience #Motivation
At today's DPD we are grateful to the speakers who presented insightful training sessions.
Thank you to Dr Asha Patel, Clinical Psychologist and CEO of Innovating Minds, for the update on the Mental Health Foundation Project and to Ben Walsh, for the update on the new Ofsted framework.
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Orchard Hill College brought staff together for an inspiring Development Planning Day hosted at Kingston University celebrating professional growth, collaboration, and a shared commitment to delivering outstanding outcomes for students. 🤩 🎉
Last chance to sign up for our Open Events
📅 Saturday 18th April
🕕️ 10-11.30am
There are two events:
🏫17 Beaconsfield Road, New Malden KT3 3HY
🏫 Park View Centre, 122-124 Park Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 1NP
👉 Sign up to this an all our upcoming open events on our website
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💙 A huge thank you to Air Charter Service💙
We’re incredibly grateful to the teams at Air Charter Service for raising nearly £25,000 for Dysart School and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust.
#CorporatePartnerships #MakingADifference #SEND
Lambeth Project Search Supported Internship Open Day - Tuesday 14th April
Parent and Carers Information Evening at Lambeth Council:
📅 Tuesday 14th April
🕔 5:00pm – 7:00pm
📍 Lambeth Town Hall, 1 Brixton Hill, Brixton SW2 1RW
👉️Secure your place by registering here: bit.ly/4sHfw4p
Merton Council Supported Internship Open Day
📅 Wednesday 15th April
🕔 SLOT 1 - 10am -12pm
🕔 SLOT 2 - 5-7pm
📍 Merton Council, Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Morden, SM4 5DX
👉️ More information
orchardhill.ac.uk/event/merton...
Please RSVP to secure your slot by emailing hollie.pile@merton.gov.uk
Find out what Orchard Hill College has to offer for young people with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) at our Hillingdon Open Event.
📅 Saturday 18th April
🕕️ 10-11.30am
🏫 Park View Centre, 122-124 Park Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 1NP
👉 Sign up orchardhill.ac.uk/events/
#SEND
Join us at our Open Event in Kingston and find out what Orchard Hill College has to offer for young people with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND).
👉 Sign up to this an all our upcoming open events on our website
orchardhill.ac.uk/events/
We can’t wait to meet you!
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We’re delighted to share that Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust is now a member of the @nasschools.bsky.social .
This milestone strengthens our ongoing commitment to championing excellence, collaboration and national advocacy across the Special Educational Needs & Disabilities.
We've had a fantastic week celebrating our amazing Supported Interns 🧡
It began with Supported Interns attending DFN Project Search's Youth Parliament in the House of Commons. The week ended with a splash of orange at head office in Sutton, to show support for our very own OHCAT interns.
#NSID2026
🧡 We're excited to support National Supported Internship Day 2026🧡
Meet some of our fantastic Supported Interns both past and present hosted by Achieving for Children in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
#DFNProjectSEARCH #SupportedInternships #NSID26
🧡 We're excited for National Supported Internship Day 2026 tomorrow 🧡
As these young people show, the DFN Project SEARCH model does far more than provide a supported internship, it creates pathways, purpose and transferable skills.💪
#DFNProjectSEARCH #SupportedInternships #NSID26
💜 Today is Purple Day, and one of our students has asked us to share the post she created to help increase awareness about epilepsy.
Please give her post a like, share or message in the comments, to let her know her voice is being heard🫂
#PurpleDay #PurpleDay2026 #EpilepsyAwareness #WearPurple
Bedelsford Chaucer Centre welcomed Cllr Sally Kenny, Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills and Education and Beverley Hendricks, the Executive Director for Children, Lifelong Learning and Families, from Merton Council for a tour of the school and to see the new facilities.
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🙌 Bedelsford School were excited to cut the ribbon on their brand-new minibus that they have been fundraising towards for the last two years. 🚐
Thanks to generous donations from Friends of Bedelsford School (FOBS) and The Victoria Foundation, the new minibus is already taking pupils to activities.
St Philip's School joined with other SEN schools around London to take part in I Am Festival 2026. Now in its 11th year, the I Am Festival brings together D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent young people to empower, celebrate and explore their creativity. 🎉
#IAmFestival2026 @anewdirectionldn
🔊 DFN Project SEARCH Supported Internship opportunities in Sutton 🔊
Find out more at this information event:
📆 Wednesday 18 March 2026
🕑 2–3pm or 🕔 3.30-4.30pm
📍OHC&AT Copthall House, Grove Road, Sutton, SM1 1DA (first floor boardroom)
Book your place via this link:
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We are proud to support Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2026! 🙌
At Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust, every day is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate neurodiversity and we’re committed to creating environments where all learners can thrive. 💛
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #NCW #ThisIsND
Skylar is thriving in her Supported Internship at Orchard Hill College Academy Trust. 🩵
📣 We’re recruiting for the Supported Internship programme starting in Sept!
Join us at our info event on 18 March.
👉orchardhill.ac.uk/event/sutton-supported-i...
From classroom to ringside.
To coincide with @careersweek.bsky.social students at The PRIDE Academy gained a real insight into the world of professional sport during a visit from boxing journalist
#NCW2026 #SENDED #Careers #Employability #Enterprise, #CEIAG
Students at St Philip’s School learnt about careers across the creative arts industries for @careersweek.bsky.social
They enjoyed visits to @rosetheatre2008.bsky.social, the Stanley Picker Gallery, the Yehudi Menuhin Concert Hall and @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social
#NCW2026 #SENDED #Careers
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Unified Academy is celebrating @careersweek.bsky.social with hands‑on workshops, taster sessions and inspiring speakers across emergency services, construction, VR design and the British Army. Students are grabbing every opportunity! 🤩
www.unifiedacademy.org/unified-acad...
#NCW2026 #SEND #Careers
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It’s National Careers Week and we are supporting our students into work! 🤩
We’ve teamed up with Job Centre Plus to deliver engaging, hands-on employability workshops for our Orchard Hill College students. Sessions cover everything from digital footprints to interview techniques. 🌟
#NCW2026 #SENDED
🎈 Next week is National Careers Week and we can't wait to share all the exciting activities taking place across the Trust.
As a specialist SEND provider, the Trust aims to deliver positive life changing and life enhancing outcomes for children and young people.
#NCW2026 #SENDED #Careers #CEIAG
Two exciting #trustee roles!
Mary Hare School for the Deaf seeks governors with experience in residential care, safeguarding, deaf education or finance 👉 buff.ly/gWLJ8UB
Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust wants finance & education professionals 👉 buff.ly/8mkc6U0
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Good luck to Tom, dad to Beth, a pupil at Bedelsford School.
Tom is taking on the challenge of running four marathons in just eight weeks for four amazing charities who have supported the family.
To find out more or support Tom, please visit his Go Fund Me page
www.gofundme.com/f/4-countrie...
We’re delighted to share that Brantridge School has been awarded a myHappymind Silver Accreditation✨
This award celebrates the commitment to supporting children’s well-being, confidence and resilience 💛
Learn more 👉 brantridgeschool.org/awarded-myha...
🩵 Meet Reggie, one of our Supported Interns 🩵
We’re now recruiting for our September 2026 DFN Project Search Supported Internship course.
To find out more book a place on our online information events on 25th February
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Dysart School's Principal, Leigh Edser, was delighted to present at the Education Estates Conference with Anna Steel, the Executive Headteacher of Latchmere Academy Trust. They shared how they had set up Discovery House, the school's third satellite provision co-located with the mainstream primary.
