Welcome to Medina House School

Medina House School has been supporting the educational experiences of children on the Isle of Wight for over 30 years. As the only primary aged specialist school on the Isle of Wight, our pupil demographics are diverse but this creates an exciting and very special school. We are a Rights Respecting school and achieved our UK Silver accreditation from Unicef, demonstrating our commitment to learn about the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

At MHS we all strive to “be the best that we can be!”. This school motto applies to all stakeholders at the school and is something that is celebrated daily.  We acknowledge that to achieve the “best” we need to work in close partnership with parents and external agencies to ensure that every pupil receives the highest standards of education and care. Our staff team are dedicated in being their best and to help support this we put professional learning and development at the heart of our efforts to ensure that expertise within the school develops to meet the challenge of providing the very best.

We cannot achieve the very best outcomes for pupils without working closely with our parents/carers. As well as daily, informal, opportunities to catch up, this can also be offered through informal one-to-one support, workshops or parenting courses. Our family support service is on hand to provide all manner of family support as well as being a safe space for parents to have a cup of tea and debrief. We welcome parents playing an active role in their child’s school journey which involves parents coming into the school for celebration events such as sports day, Christmas performances, harvest festival, ‘stay and play’ sessions and many more.

Medina House School has established strong links with local primary schools and community groups. We also provide a specialist outreach service to mainstream schools to support the development of inclusive practice for individual children with a range of special needs.

Learning is prioritised at Medina House and there are regular opportunities to meet both informally and formally with class teams in order to discuss and celebrate achievements. We use our Earwig system to not only offer regular updates against assessment markers but also for generating our termly progress reports.

To support out pupils learning journey we have a range of specialist facilities that include;

  • Speech and language therapy room,
  • Outdoor gym,
  • Sensory garden,
  • Outdoor classroom,
  • A spacious gym and separate dining hall,
  • An immersive white and dark room,
  • A hydrotherapy swimming pool,
  • On-site school nursing support,
  • Physiotherapy room,
  • Mini buses to support in taking children offsite for community learning opportunities.

More information about the school is available in our school prospectus but if you need any further information of have any concerns or questions, please contact the school.

Christopher Berry
Headteacher

 


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