Wouldn't suit us: would be wrong for ds because he is too immature to see the benefits of formal qualifications now, and a school that encouraged him to "own his education" would simply enable him to sit back and never attempt anything that involved an effort.
And also wrong for dd because she needs better academic support than this school is likely to offer.
Hardly impressed by the suggestion that "If a child/young person wishes to learn a foreign language we will do all we can to support them. But again, where possible, this will be about first-hand learning. Opportunities to be explored could include: establishing a ?friendship? group in the relevant country that could be skyped on a regular basis; identifying a local community group that speaks that language that they could be a part of; and ultimately (and this could be at any point in the journey) spending some time in the country where that language is spoken."
Have they any idea how long it takes to learn a foreign language simply by first hand experience if noone explains the principles to you? Most immigrants don't manage it without lessons even after 20 years in a country. How do they think a child is going to be able to skype in a foreign language or "become part of a local community group that speaks the language" if she has never been taught the basics? They are basically washing their hands, aren't they?
The only school I have ever known that uses rhetoric like this have an appalling GCSE record - which means those children's futures have already been decided for them; they also (despite contintous talk of supporting the child as an individual) have a very poor record for SN support, and have serious discipline problems.
I'd stay well away from this one.