Our purpose built special school is on the outskirts of the North Norfolk town of Sheringham, surrounded by a beautiful natural landscape of beaches, cliffs, woodland and marshes.
We share a campus with Sheringham County Primary School and Nursery and Sheringham High School.
Our pupils range from ages three to nineteen and come from across the county.
The main school building has spacious classrooms, automatic doors, height adjustable furniture, and wide doors and corridors.
It features well-equipped hygiene rooms, ceiling hoists and many specialist facilities.
We have a teaching kitchen with adapted equipment to allow everyone to cook. The building also has excellent IT equipment including computers, iPads, cameras and switch-operated toys and equipment.
We have a therapy centre, ball pool, large range of soft play equipment and a hydrotherapy pool.
Outside there is a school garden and separate playgrounds for primary and secondary pupils with play equipment, bikes, trikes, sports equipment and games.
The Annexe is a part of the High School sixth form building and has two classes for our older pupils. It is designed to offer a curriculum preparing pupils to move on to the next step in their life with an emphasis on life skills.
It has an excellent kitchen with dishwasher, washing machine and dryer and a common room for pupils to socialise and relax in. Pupils based in the Annexe also use the specialist areas in the main building.
A member of staff is responsible for choosing the music and a Year 11 pupil takes responsibility for the organisation. The assembly schedule is available on the school network and the PHSCE.ED subject manager is responsible for disseminating a weekly schedule of ‘Thoughts for the Day’. These thoughts are also displayed around the school. Tutors are expected to spend some time at the beginning of each day reflecting on these themes.
Themes of assemblies are broad and focus on moral and behavioural themes. We encourage all pupils to be present in assembly as these themes underpin the ethos of the school and are an essential foundation to the curriculum. We also welcome a local church group into school on a monthly basis to celebrate an assembly based on a religious theme. Where parents wish for pupils to be withdrawn due to religious beliefs we ensure that they can access the underlying themes.
We also hold whole school assemblies on other days where it is relevant. For example, Harvest Festival where pupils bring in food items that are then taken to a food bank.
