Henry Tyndale is a Community Special School catering for approximately 140 pupils, who have complex learning difficulties across the age range from two to nineteen years. The school is situated within Farnborough with the main site in Ship Lane and an Early Years Centre in Mayfield Road. Henry Tyndale School caters for a range of Special Educational Need and is proud of the outstanding quality of education and care it provides for all of its pupils. All pupils at our school have a learning difficulty; many also have an additional need such as a physical disability, a language disorder or an autism spectrum disorder.

Henry Tyndale School also encompasses the Henry Tyndale 6th form, which provides a base for the education of the majority of our Post 16 students and a suitable community based location for the development of their vocational and community skills.   

Henry Tyndale School caters for a range of Special Educational Need and is proud of the quality of education and care it provides for all of its pupils. All pupils at our school have a learning difficulty; many also have an additional need such as a physical disability, a language disorder or an autism spectrum disorder. 

The school has approximately a hundred staff and numerous additional experienced personnel from Health, Education and Social Services who work on site alongside our employees to assist the children. These multi-agency colleagues include Physio-therapists and a Speech and Language therapist each day, plus regular visits from amongst others, Occupational and Music Therapists, Advisory Teachers for our visually and hearing impaired students, school nurse, Social Workers, Key Workers from respite services and members of the CAMHS team.

The School Name

Henry Tyndale first became involved with the school in 1976. For the next twenty years until his death in 1996 he supported the school as an active committee member and treasurer of the parents, staff and friends association. He was a terrific and tireless fund-raiser. What is more important is that he was also a regular volunteer, happy to help in any way he could and particularly supportive of those children with the greatest difficulties or disabilities. He was a great friend to pupils, parents and staff alike.

In addition to his work supporting our school Henry had also been a great helper at two other special schools in the past and he continued to be actively involved with Mencap, the charity that assists children and adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. When the school was re-organised and re-developed in 1998 we were honoured to be able to re-name the school after Henry.