Newfriars College | Welcome

Welcome to Newfriars College — an Independent Specialist Day College in Stoke-on-Trent for young people aged 16–25 with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In this short welcome video you'll meet our learners and staff, see our campus at Castle Grove in Bucknall, and hear what makes Newfriars different: personalised pathways, small groups, specialist support, and a community where every voice counts. Together we raise aspirations and transform lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT NEWFRIARS COLLEGE Newfriars College is an Independent Specialist Day College in North Staffordshire, based at Castle Grove, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent. We support young people aged 16 to 25 with learning difficulties and disabilities to develop the life, work, communication and independence skills they need for adult life — whether that means employment, volunteering, further study, independent living or supported living. Every learner follows a personalised programme, shaped around their strengths, interests and goals, and delivered by specialist staff in small groups with the right educational, therapeutic and pastoral support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OUR CURRICULUM PATHWAYS Vocational Pathway — work skills, employability and accredited learning https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/vocational... Independent Living Pathway — independence, communication and community https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/independen... Supported Living Pathway — personalised support for complex needs https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/supported-... Supported Internships and Project Search — real workplace experience https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/supported-... We also offer work experience, community learning, enrichment, and therapies and care. Curriculum overview: https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/curriculum... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED Who can apply to Newfriars College? Newfriars College welcomes young people with special educational needs and disabilities who are ready for post-16 education and want to develop skills for independence, employment and community life. How do I apply for a place? Start by visiting an open event or arranging a tour, then speak to your current school and Local Authority to name Newfriars College as your preferred placement on your Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). More: https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/admissions/ Where is Newfriars College? Castle Grove, off Newhouse Road, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8BH. We are a day college serving Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and the surrounding area. How will my young person be supported? Specialist staff, small groups and personalised targets ensure learners receive the right educational, therapeutic and pastoral support so they feel safe, confident and ready for adult life. How are parents and carers involved? We work in partnership with parents and carers through regular communication, progress reviews and invitations to events, so you stay informed and involved at every stage. Is transport available? Transport information: https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/transport/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COME AND SEE US The best way to understand Newfriars is to visit. Arrange a tour or ask us a question: Website: https://newfriarscollege.org.uk Contact us: https://newfriarscollege.org.uk/contact-us/ Telephone: 01782 987180 Email: helpline@newfriarscollege.org.uk Address: Castle Grove, off Newhouse Road, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 8BH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW NEWFRIARS COLLEGE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewfriarsCollege/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newfriars... X: https://x.com/Newfriars_Stoke Project Search: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACCESSIBILITY This video includes closed captions. If you would like this information in another format, please contact us on 01782 987180 or email helpline@newfriarscollege.org.uk. #NewfriarsCollege #SEND #StokeOnTrent