Residential
Head of Care - Miss Alice Pearson
Independent Person - Professor Anthony Maher
Independent Visitor - Mrs Elizabeth Halpin
At St. Vincent’s we offer an impressive residential group. Staffed by a dedicated, highly trained group of Care Staff, who are always on call to offer help and support to pupils, parents and carers, in any way they can.
The following information will tell you about life at St. Vincent’s if you stay as a residential student or have an extended day placement:
Residential News
Spring 2025
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Spring term promises longer evenings and more opportunity to enjoy all of our outdoor space and equipment once again.
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Some of our residential pupils have been involved in the Great Debate and represented our school in the competition that was held here at St Vincent’s. We can’t wait for the next round in the summer term!
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We have also been involved in the Young Green Britain Challenge and were lucky enough to go on a trip to Cornwall to visit the Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan. This was an amazing educational trip, and our young people thoroughly enjoyed the experience, coming away with lots of exciting ideas for the summer term.
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We have welcomed 2 new residential pupils to group this term, and we have been making them feel at home as they settle into St Vincent’s School.
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We have been supporting one of our residential pupils during Ramadan this half-term – helping him out and breaking fast together of an evening.
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Chess Club has been a welcome addition to our Monday evenings, and some of our young people are really enjoying learning how to play.
Autumn 2024
All residential students have returned for the new academic year in great spirits and are excited for the year ahead.
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Christmas Performance – our pupils have really enjoyed rehearsing their lines in preparation for the school performance.
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Christmas Dinner – pupils have enjoyed the preparation for residential Christmas dinner where the pupils were encouraged to pick a guest and make invitations in arts and craft.
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Independent Visitor – lovely time had by all residential pupils their school friends and members of staff including Lizzy our independent visitor.
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Halloween preparations and spooky recipes - pupils have been enjoying carving pumpkins and getting ready for Halloween.
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Independence and social evenings on Thursdays continue including fitness suite movie nights.
Summer 2024
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This summer term in the residential group we are looking forward to some nice weather (fingers crossed) so we can enjoy our meals and spare time outside in the fresh air.
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We have set ourselves some new targets for independence and we are continuing with our daily mile each evening to wind down after our busy day in school.
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We are looking forward to more visits from our independent person and visitor. We really enjoy chatting to both Lizzy and Anthony when they come to see us and enjoy sharing all of our news with them.
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We hope to plan some trips to the local park that has a massive play area and maybe a trip to the beach.
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We are all really looking forward to this term in school with a fun day being planned and a prom so we can get dressed up and have a good evening with all of our friends.