Kingfisher Special School is the only provision for primary aged children with severe and complex learning needs in Oldham. Kingfisher Special School is part of Kingfisher Learning Trust which was set up by the Kingfisher Community Special School in September 2016, a three time Outstanding School in 2007, 2010, 2014.
Kingfisher Special School is a National Support School and a cohort one National Teaching School. Excellence is at the heart of all of Kingfisher's work, and the school works hard to find the best possible approaches in all aspects of its provision. This ensures that all children receive a varied, engaging and appropriate curriculum offer, developed to ensure an experience which both challenges and excites, motivates and engages and celebrates individuality, personal achievement.
The school has a Borough-wide catchment area, and has been further developed and extended to enable it to provide for an increasing population of children with unique needs.