Moor House School & College A GSG School
- Moor House School & College
Mill Lane
Hurst Green
Oxted
Surrey
RH8 9AQ - Head: Mrs Helen Middleton
- T 01883 712271
- F 01883 716722
- E info@moorhouseschool.co.uk
- W www.moorhouseschool.co.uk
- A specialist day and residential school and college for boys and girls aged 7-19 with speech and language impairments/developmental language disorder and related communication difficulties.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Surrey
- Pupils: 208; sixth formers: 70
- Religion: Does not apply
- Open days: Visits welcomed by appointment
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 30th November 2022
- 2 Full inspection 26th June 2014
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 22nd March 2011
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
This is a gold standard school so pupil-staff ratios are extremely high. Head of therapy, a speech and language therapist, has four team leaders and sixteen speech and language therapists, along with two occupational therapy leaders who run a team of eight occupational therapists and assistants...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Since 2015, Helen Middleton BA HD, BA DipEd, PG Dip SpLDs+Literacy. Mrs Middleton arrived from South Africa in 2001 to join the school as a specialist English teacher and went on to become an assistant head teacher, finally taking the helm as Principal in 2015. She has played a major part in developing the school’s excellent education programme and has overseen the new post-16 provision. She has also been instrumental in the development of the Moor House Research and Training Institute, for teachers and therapists. A serious personality, she can come across as rather formidable when you first meet her, say parents; but once you join the school, you get to see how well-liked and appreciated she is by the staff and pupils. A strong leader, ambitious and determined to do her best for...
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Special Education Needs
Moor House is an independent residential special school providing for pupils from seven to 19 years who have speech, language and communication impairments/developmental language disorder and related communication difficulties.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
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Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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