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About Us
Opening in January 2025, Storyybrook School will provide an exceptional, nurturing environment with the highest ambition for learning and personal wellbeing, which enables all children to thrive regardless of their barriers to learning or their past experiences.
Set in over 5 acres of beautiful countryside, the school currently has a capacity for 30 full-time learners from year 3 to year 8 with a range of Social, Emotional or Mental Health needs.
Our vision is to create a community of caring, creative and aspirational learners where each unique child is valued and nurtured to thrive, grow and excel in a world with no limits.
Aims and Ethos
We believe that every child has the right to a great education. Through our engaging curriculum, we support children with their social and emotional barriers to learning and provide a broad, topic and project-based learning experience which mirrors the subjects taught within the National Curriculum 2022.
Core Values
Respect
We cultivate a culture of tolerance and understanding, where every individual is respected and our shared environment is treated with care and consideration.
Resilience
We empower our students to overcome challenges, building inner strength and determination.
Inclusion
We celebrate diversity and ensure that every child feels seen, heard, and valued as part of our community.
Integrity
We promote honesty and trust, instilling a strong sense of responsibility and doing what’s right, even when it’s hard.
Love
We create a caring, supportive environment where kindness and compassion are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Approach to Supporting SEMH Needs
We prioritise a trauma-informed approach to supporting students with SEMH needs. Using the “Motional” software, we develop detailed, personalised action plans for each pupil, addressing their unique SEMH barriers to learning.
Every student has a full Motional profile, allowing us to identify areas where support is needed and to focus on fostering pro- social behaviours. Our classrooms are thoughtfully designed in collaboration with Occupational and Speech Therapists, ensuring they are accessible, inclusive, and supportive of all learners’ needs.
Therapeutic Integration
Motional
Motional is a tool for identifying, assessing, and improving the motional health and wellbeing of children and young people.
Each of our students has a personalised Motional Profile, outlining their specific social, motional, and mental health needs. The profile shows a percentage of ‘Blocks to Learning’. These blocks to learning can be because of experienced and ongoing trauma and/or specific need diagnosis such as ASC, PDA, ODD or ADHD. Twice daily Motional sessions, in tutor groups prepare the students for learning. Specific motional strategies are integrated into lessons across the school, with the aim of making it an integral part of a child’s daily learning experience.
Project Based Learning (PBL)
Some of our students are not classroom ready and learn in a smaller environment focussing on emotional and social readiness with integrated or standalone Maths and English.
As students feel more able to access classroom learning some will (with support) join an appropriate Maths and/or English group or complete set work from their academic appropriate group in the PBL class base.
We also integrate our Personal Development curriculum with the PBL group, where appropriate, to help encourage a “one school” community. Students who have extremely high anxiety and have been out of education for a long time will work on projects, that personally engage them. These are reviewed each term. We encourage student to lead discussions to identify appropriate future projects and agree when they may feel able to access learning with others.
Personal Development Programme
We offer an exciting personal development curriculum that nurtures the holistic growth ofstudents beyond academic achievements. By engaging in a diverse range of activities,students build resilience, improve emotional regulation, and develop key life skills thatfoster confidence and independence. These experiences are crucial for enhancing theirsocial, emotional, and mental well-being, empowering them to navigate challenges both inside and outside the classroom.
Growing vegetables in the allotment
Cultivating their own food teaches children about soil, nutrition, science and the life cycles of the vegetables and creatures in the garden, whilst developing patience and responsibility.
Forest School
Children will involve themselves in risk, problem solving and self-discovery, whilst having fun in the natural environment.
Adventurous Activities
Activities such as climbing, sailing and mountain biking help pupils overcome fear, anxietyand physical stress, whilst developing lifelong skills and hobbies.
Commando Joe’s Missions
The Children will complete a range of fun challenges that build character, teamwork and resilience.
School Overview
