Phoenix Bay School

Phoenix Bay School is a trauma-informed independent school providing therapeutic education to support students to develop increasingly independent lives, leading to them thrive in adulthood. The school provides a specialised, small, nurturing environment for traumatised students who have been unable to manage in larger class settings or mainstream education.

The students attending the Phoenix Bay School will have often been excluded or unable to manage both ordinary schools and other specialist educational provisions. Phoenix Bay staff believe that every child is a competent learner from birth, who can be resilient, capable, confident, and self-assured.

The students who come to Phoenix Bay are often functioning emotionally and developmentally below their chronological age, but at Phoenix Bay, all students can learn to be strong and independent from a base of secure relationships with staff and others.

We recognise that students develop and learn in different ways and at different rates, and that all areas of learning and development are equally important and interconnected. At all times we keep at heart, both the developmental age of the student and their readiness for learning.