The Shires New Autism School Oakham Rutland

The Shires New Autism School Oakham Rutland

The school is moving into house which was previously used by Grange Therapeutic School school for boys. they used it for residential accommodation until a member
of their staff who worked for them was convicted of downloading child porn.

The building is now to be used by Shires who teach older children with autism in a
secure environment.

Community Open Day at The Shires Oakham

Monday 14th March 2016 11am – 3pm

To reserve your place please email amy.merchant@theshires.org.uk

For more information about The Shires at Oakham please click here.

Apologies for confusing the previous owners


Dear Mr Brookes,

My attention has just been drawn to your posting on your blog of March 7th about the Shires acquiring the Hayne in Oakham to use as a new boarding house.

You seem to have been badly informed or careless in your research. You have mistakenly identified Wilds Lodge School as the previous owner of this building. In fact it belonged to the Grange Therapeutic School at Knossington for about twenty years and Wilds Lodge has never had any connection with it in any shape or form. It was also one of the Grange's staff that was convicted child pornography a few years ago and not one of ours, as you incorrectly state. You will have to contact the head there to see whether this was the reason for the closure of the Hayne. I suspect that it was not.

Yours sincerely,

Robin Lee

Principal - Wilds Lodge School