Vijita Patel has led Swiss Cottage School, a local authority special needs school in Camden, through multiple ‘outstanding’ Ofsted outcomes and even entertained visitors from the World Bank. She tells Jess Staufenberg about empowering staff around a research-focused model
Anyone who takes an interest in special needs education will have heard of Swiss Cottage School.
One of the last institutions constructed under New Labour’s ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme, the £24 million building in north London is an impressive complex of modernist architecture, taking around 240 pupils from early years through to sixth form.
