Nightingale Priory Lane

Welcome to Nightingale Priory Lane

Nightingale Priory Lane is part of Nightingale Community Academy. It is an additional site for secondary aged boys and girls with Social Emotional and Health Needs.

Start of academic year 2026-2027

Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September – individual teacher/learner and family meetings. Please attend on the day and time specified in the information sent home by the class teacher.

Monday 14th September – School open to all learners at normal time.

 

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How to find us

Nightingale Priory Lane opened to its first cohort of learners in June 2026. The site has been refurbished to meet the needs of learners and opens in September 2026.

Staff and learners please report to main reception unless you are told otherwise.

Contractors working on the site please report to the site office entrance.

You will find both entrances on Arabella Drive off Priory Lane, Roehampton SW15 5RT (site of the old Paddock School).

What 3 words: small.home.poetic

Head of School: Rich Brown

Address: Priory Lane, Roehampton, SW15 5RT

Tel: 020 8874 9096

Email: info@nightingaleca.org

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Nightingale Priory Lane Welcome Video

2026 NAC Priory Lane Colour logo

Welcome booklet

This welcome booklet gives an overview of Nightingale Priory Lane and what the curriculum, therapeutical and enrichment programme offered.

Meet the team

NPL Rich Brown

Rich Brown

Head of School (Nightingale Priory Lane)

NPL Crystal Miller

Crystal Miller

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (NPL)

NPL Michelle Clough

Michelle Clough

Class Teacher (NPL)

NPL Luis Ferreira

Luis Ferreira

Class Teacher (NPL)

NPL Patrick Lyons

Patrick Lyons

Teacher (NPL)

NPL Zoe

Zoe Rodica

Psychotherapist

NPL Takiyah

Takiyah Campbell

Learning Support Assistant

NPL Micah B

Micah Pinnock

Learning Support Assistant

Background

The Department for Education approved a proposal for Nightingale Community Academy (NCA) to open a satellite site on Priory Lane in January 2026.

NCA is a special school in Wandsworth and all pupils have an Educational Health Care Plan with Social Emotional and Mental Health Needs (SEMH). The main site on Beechcroft Road, SW17 is for boys aged aged 5 to 19  and the new site, Nightingale Priory Lane, is situated on Priory Lane, SW15 for boys and girls of secondary age who have SEMH needs

NCA works closely with the London Borough of Wandsworth to ensure its offer meets the local requirements and complements other local provisions. Wandsworth Council identified a need for more special school places to be provided locally for pupils whose needs could be met by the specialist team at NCA. NCA is working with Wandsworth Council to refurbish the site formerly occupied by Paddock School, which is now vacant, and could be adapted to provide places for the additional special school places.

The Council has asked Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (OHCAT) and NCA to open a satellite site and provide up to 72 secondary places for boys and girls in a phased build up over three years from Summer Term 2026.

 

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