The Lighthouse

Pimlico Primary is a mainstream primary school.  We work hard to stretch and challenge each individual student, and it is important to us that every child is able to reach their potential.  To help achieve this, we have a small centre within our school that provides support for children with Development Language Disorder. This is called The Lighthouse, which is a locally-recognised centre of excellence for children with this condition.  

The Lighthouse works with children who are able to benefit from and achieve success in a mainstream classroom, but who require some additional facilities and interventions to allow them to do so.  Children in The Lighthouse spend some of their time in mainstream lessons and the rest of their time in this base.  It is here that our specialist teachers and teaching assistants provide teaching or support that focuses on areas and skills that they find more challenging, using a variety of evidence-based teaching approaches.

Admission to The Lighthouse is managed by Westminster City Council, although we do welcome children from other local authority areas.  Children are almost always expected to have an EHCP before joining our provision, and families who wish to apply for our setting should speak to their child’s case worker at their home local authority.  If your child does not have an EHCP or you would like more information about the Windmill Centre, you are warmly invited to contact the school office.  We are always happy to speak to prospective parents so that they can discuss whether our setting might be right for their child.