Treloar School and College is a non-maintained residential and day special school and college for disabled children and young people aged from 2 to 25 in
Holybourne
Holybourne is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 1.3 miles (2.2 km) northeast of the centre of Alton, is contiguous with it and shares its A31 bypass. The nearest railway station also being in Alton.
The ...
near
Alton,
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...
, UK.
Aims and governance
The school and college aims to provide enabling education to the disabled, using a combination of teaching, care,
occupational therapy
Occupational therapy (OT) is a global healthcare profession. It involves the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities, or ''occupations'', of individuals, groups, or communities. The field o ...
,
physiotherapy
Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is one of the allied health professions. It is provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through physical examination, diagnosis, management, prognosis, patie ...
, and
speech and language therapy. They are administered by Treloar Trust, a registered charity. The school, college, and trust are often referred to singly or collectively as "Treloar's", and indeed the official motto is "Treloar's: Enabling Education".
History
In 1907, the then
Lord Mayor of the City of London
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or ...
,
Sir William Purdie Treloar, set up a 'Cripples' Fund' as his mayoral appeal. His aim was to build a hospital and school outside the city for children with non-pulmonary
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in w ...
. On 13 June that year he wrote in his diary that Her Majesty
Queen Alexandra
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of Kin ...
'came to Mansion House to open the Queen's Fete in aid of my Cripples' Fund'. In 1908, the boarding school and hospital were opened in Alton, as The Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital and College.
[Chronology]
Treloar's, retrieved 21 June 2021. In 1948 the National Health Service took over the hospital, and the Lord Mayor Treloar College subsequently moved from Alton to a new site bought by the Trust in 1949 in the nearby village of
Froyle. In 1965 the Florence Treloar School for Girls was opened in the village of Holybourne; the two schools were combined in 1978 under the Lord Mayor Treloar College name, with the Lower School housed at Froyle and the Upper School at Holybourne.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, the boys' school offered specialist care for ]haemophiliac
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s. With the introduction of Factor VIII
Factor VIII (FVIII) is an essential blood-clotting protein, also known as anti-hemophilic factor (AHF). In humans, factor VIII is encoded by the ''F8'' gene. Defects in this gene result in hemophilia A, a recessive X-linked coagulation disorder ...
treatment, between 1974 and 1987 many were injected with Factor VIII imported from the United States and manufactured from contaminated non-heat-treated blood plasma, and were infected with HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of '' Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immu ...
and hepatitis
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; 90 out of 122 have since died. A public inquiry into the National Health Service's use of contaminated blood products began taking evidence from those affected in 2019, and in 2021 heard statements from former Treloar's pupils who were infected there. In 2022, a lawsuit against the school was filed by survivors.
In 1995 the Holybourne campus became the Lord Mayor Treloar National Specialist College of Further Education; in 2000 this was shortened to Treloar College and the Froyle campus became Treloar School.[ After the launching of an appeal, Vision Treloar's, in 2010, the School, College, and Trust were consolidated on a new campus on the Holybourne site that was officially opened in 2012 by ]Sophie, Countess of Wessex
Sophie, Countess of Wessex and Forfar, (born Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, 20 January 1965) is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Forfar, the youngest brother of King Charles III.
She grew ...
, who is the Trust's Royal Patron.[
In 2004, the College became the first specialist college to be awarded 'outstanding' for the quality of its provision, leadership and management by Ofsted, and in 2017 it was awarded 'Beacon College' status by the Department for Education and Science. The school received an 'inadequate' Ofsted assessment in 2011, but was rated 'outstanding' in 2016 and 2018.][
]
Headteachers and Principals
Headteachers have included :
*1953 - 1972: George Heywood
*1972 - 1974: Johnston Smith
*1974 - 1990: Alec Macpherson
1990-1997: Hartley Heard
*1996 - 2006: Neil Clark
*2006 - 2007: Heather Boardman
*2007 - 2011: Harry Dicks
*2011 - 2014: Melissa Farnham
*2018–: Mia Dodsworth
College Principals have included:
*1994 - 1995: Dr Jane Lones
*1995 - 2006: Dr Graham Jowett
*2006 - 2008: Pat Teague
*2014 - 2016: John Stone (Principal), School and College - Jo McSherrie
*2016 - current: Martin Ingram
Sport
Treloar School has built a reputation of developing the sporting abilities of young people with physical disabilities. Many students continue their sporting progress at Treloar College and beyond. Particular strengths are in athletics, with many students showing Paralympic potential, boccia
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, and swimming. Many former students represented Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Gam ...
in London. A sports facility accommodating basketball, chair football, hockey, and tennis was opened in 2014."Countess of Wessex visits Treloar School & College"
ITV News Meridian, 11 June 2014.
Notable alumni
* Ash Atalla, TV producer
* Spike Breakwell, comedian, writer, actor and musician
* Laurence Clark (comedian), disability rights broadcaster
* Paul Darke, academic, artist and disability rights activist
* Julie Fernandez, actress and disability rights campaigner
* Ben Rushgrove, Paralympic track athlete
* Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds, artist
References
External links
* http://www.treloar.org.uk
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Independent schools in Hampshire
Special schools in Hampshire
Educational institutions established in 1908
1908 establishments in England