Our aims
- To help deaf children to talk and learn in a happy, supportive environment
- To produce healthy, happy, self-motivated, independent pupils who can use spoken language confidently in their daily lives
- To provide a safe, secure and supportive environment for pupils and staff
- To deliver a language-rich National Curriculum with language modified and adapted to suit each child's language level
- To provide on-going information to parents about their child's progress through weekly home/school diaries, IEP reviews, head teacher's Friday letter, phone conversations with care staff and annually in the Annual Review
- To provide individual speech and language therapy programmes for each child
- To provide statements of an individual pupil's progress and objectives for the following year through Annual Reviews, to which pupils, Mary Hare Primary staff, families and external agencies are invited to contribute
- To ensure pupils integrate as much as is beneficial for them in the local commmunity after school, and for targeted sessions with the local primary school during schol hours
- To develop each pupil's spiritual well-being by providing a caring community where respect for each other's religions, cultures, and points of view is actively encouraged
- To provide a range of after-school activities for boarding pupils to extend their physical and intellectual skills, and to allow time for relaxation
- To provide a safe and healthy environment and encourage a healthy lifestyle and access to medical support
- To work in partnership with parents and other agences where necessary, to help their child's emotional, psychological and social development and independence and, in Year 5 and 6, to work together to choose the secondary placement which would best suit their child
- To provide each boarder with a Keyworker who will be responsible for the child's care and well-being and his/her care plan
