Welcome to Taunton Deane Partnership College.  We are a Pupil Referral Unit.  A Local Authority school that serves the community of Taunton, Wellington and Wiveliscombe.  When students are not able to have their needs met in a mainstream school, they come to TDPC.  We then work with them, their families, schools and other professionals to support them into their next steps. 

Our students range from 5 – 16 and next steps could be their mainstream school, another mainstream school, college, work or a special school.  We provide a safe and welcoming environment where everyone is valued for who they are and what they can offer, and where every day is a new day.  Our aim is to build resilience, confidence and other key skills that are needed for these next steps. 

We also work with our partners in schools to promote inclusion.  Attendance and building positive relationships with all our stakeholders are key to what we do.  TDPC is a safe and welcoming place, where we get to know our students so that we can start taking down the barriers. 

I have spent all my life in school and all my adult life striving to ensure that every young person I work with feels safe, valued and that they can achieve, whether that is my own children at home, or those that I spend my days with in school.   I aim to instill that philosophy here at TDPC.  We are welcoming, restorative, kind, safe and respectful with high aspirations and clear and consistent boundaries.

Best wishes

Kim Lawrence

Headteacher