Bridge Road School

Indigenous artwork, featuring kookaburra, possum and owl.

Welcome to Bridge Road School

Kindness. Cooperation. Resilience.

Bridge Road School was established to support K-6 students with mental health diagnoses. We believe that through consultation, collaboration and positive communication, our students can 'cross the bridge'.

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The Bridge Road School difference

Unconditional Positive Regard

Bridge Road School is a specialist setting with expert staff providing intensive intervention for complex learners. All students at Bridge Road School are 'known, valued and cared for'. Our staff are dedicated to displaying unconditional positive regard. This means that staff do not take incidents of dysregulation personally, and when students return to calm, relationships are repaired, and staff work to display warmth and kindness to reassure students. Click to find out how:

Focus on Wellbeing

Bridge Road has a strong focus on student wellbeing. We implement many programs to build self-esteem and promote a positive self-concept. Our priority is to teach students how to learn. Grounded in trauma-informed practice, and acknowledging adverse childhood experiences and neurodiversity, we understand our students need to develop relationships before they can be ready to learn. Click to find out how:

Wrap Around Support

Our biggest job at Bridge Road School is to re-engage, disengaged learners. All students at the school have a personalised learning and support plan. Staff know their students and how they learn and thus implement a differentiated and adjusted teaching and learning program with an emphasis on explicit teaching. Our teaching and learning programs have a strong focus on literacy and numeracy, PDHPE, social skills, creative arts and outdoor education. Our students are most focused and engaged when the activities are hands-on, engaging and relatable. Click here to find out more about our wrap around supports:

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Welcome to Bridge Road School

Bridge road school is located in the inner city of Sydney, in the Iron Cove Network. Currently Bridge Road School supports students from Yowie Bay to Birchgrove and from Padstow to Coogee. We are a school for specific purposes (SSP) classified as ' Intensive Learning Support for Students with Mental Health diagnoses' (ILSMH). We also support students with mild autism and emotional dysregulation. We provide a high-quality, comprehensive, and differentiated education program for complex learners.

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Principal's message

“I’m excited to welcome you to our school, a small, supportive environment with a strong focus on wellbeing.

Every student at our school is unique, with a wide range of diagnoses and presenting behaviour, and they are supported accordingly via a personalised approach. The school is guided by the principles of trauma-informed practice, and of the philosophies of contemporary educators in special education such as Dr Bruce Perry and the Neurosequential Model in Education, and child psychologists such as Dr. Ross Greene. Staff seek to find out what is driving certain behaviours, and lead from the basic premise that if 'students could do well at school, they would do well'.

I invite you to explore our website to discover what makes our school special. We look forward to welcoming you into our community.”

David Lomas, Principal of Bridge Road School