Welcome to Sunningdale School
. Where we want every child to

Our vision for our pupils is encapsulated in the phrase, “Be More...” We want every child to ‘be more’. That is, we want every child to be more in whatever way is important to them and their family.

 

Sunningdale School is Sunderland’s only maintained specialist school and only specialist school for children with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties, including autism, aged 2-11. We have an additional specialist Early Years provision known as Sunningdale Early Years Centre. This is based on our second site in Ryhope, Sunderland.

We are proud to be a serially Outstanding special school but, really, we are much more than that! We aim to be actively inclusive with our stakeholders which includes all of our families, the city of Sunderland, a range of national organisations and schools from all over the world. We provide a range of workshops and training sessions through our training centre, the SENhub. Several of these are aimed at supporting parents, careers and families of children with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties.

We are really proud to work closely with a range of partners locally, regionally and nationally including Together for Children, the National Children’s Bureau, Evidence for Learning, Dingley’s Promise, EQUALS, Ofsted and the Department for Education.