The National Institute of Conductive Education in Birmingham is staffed by 'conductors' - specialists trained in all aspects of children's education, rather than by a combination of teachers, therapists and assistants.
The school has 19 children aged three to 11 on its roll, having a range of motor disorders including cerebral palsy and dyspraxia.
Inspectors said, 'At the heart of the work of the school is the expectation of pupils to gain greater mobility and independence as well as academic achievement. This is achieved by skilfully integrating the national curriculum with the conductive curriculum.'
Conductive education was first developed by Hungarian physicist Andras Peto and introduced to the UK 18 years ago. Some of the staff at the Institute trained at the Peto Institute in Budapest; others are graduates from the institute's conductor training school run in partnership with Wolverhampton University.
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