Moor House School & College

Since 2015, Helen Middleton, who 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

Parents should read the admission criteria carefully - the main consideration is that your child has a primary diagnosis of speech language and communication needs/developmental language disorder. Some pupils will have a secondary diagnosis of other

At 16+, virtually all pupils move up to the sixth form college. From 18+, students leave for a wide range of destinations, apprenticeships, employment, supported internships in partnership with other local colleges and a few to university. As part of

The school provides a differentiated mainstream curriculum for pupils with speech, language and communication needs who fall within the average cognitive range. Each class is run by a teacher, learning support assistant and a speech and language

Learning spaces are regularly updated, and include smart new IT suite, well-equipped science labs and food tech studios. Information about each subject is clearly laid out in curriculum maps so parents and pupils can see the vocabulary and skills the

Lovely top floor art studio with lots going on, everything from painting and photography to weaving and theatre design. Dedicated pottery room with a wheel and two kilns. Creative pursuits are extremely popular and a number of the students do arts

Large swimming pool and sports hall where pupils enjoy a good range of ball and racket sports alongside zumba classes, yoga and judo. Dotted around are table tennis and pool tables. The majority of sporting facilities are available to pupils in the

Boarding from year 7, with just over 25 taking up places, approximately the same number join as boarders at College level. For many, it is their first opportunity to socialise or access after-school activities, so this causes great excitement for

This is a gold standard school, so pupil-staff ratios are extremely high. Head of therapy, who is a speech and language therapist, has four team leaders and 16 speech and language therapists, along with two occupational therapy leaders who run a team

Mental health and wellbeing are central to the school’s ethos. A dedicated team of psychotherapists, emotional literacy support assistants and a child psychotherapist run a successful programme around this. School–parent links are very strong,

Mostly from the south of England, parents are an extremely committed bunch, many having fought tooth and nail to get a place at Moor House and some having attended tribunal. Parents are particularly grateful that the school also runs an extensive

All fees are paid by local authorities there are no self-funding students. Students and their families must be UK residents.

A unique place, parents cannot fault it and are unanimous in feeling that without Moor House their child would not be where they are today. The school is at the forefront of research, training and teaching pupils with developmental language disorder,