Residential Care: Accommodation

The dormitory accommodation is modern, offering the children the opportunity to personalise their individual bed areas. All dormitories are bright and airy and meet the requirements of the National Minimum Care Standards for residential special schools. Each residential group also has its own common room in which to relax and socialise. The senior learners have their own residential facilities within the school grounds. A team of residential care staff look after each pupil in the senior school. The pupils are encouraged to develop their own social and life skills. 

 

Each residential care worker has specific responsibility for assessing and responding to the individual needs of a group of pupils. He or she gets to know them particularly well and is responsible for drawing up their care plans. The approach is an individualistic one and it is designed so that pupils may gain the greatest amount of benefit from their time in the social and leisure situation.

 

Moor House School was actively involved in the drafting of the National Minimum Boarding Standards and subscribes wholly to the criteria set out in the document.

 

 

THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS

 

The school has modern, well-equipped classrooms and excellent curriculum facilities. These include an ICT suite, food technology, science, art and sound proofed music classrooms, library, careers resource area and craft centre.There is a well-resourced speech and language therapy department, with rooms for individual therapy, social skills groups and small group work.

 

Modern dormitory accommodation and a surgery and sickbay are present in the main building. The school offers both on-site and off-site accommodation for staff. A strict no-smoking policy operates throughout the school.

 

 

CATERING

 

Food is a subject near to any pupil's heart!  Catering at Moor House is in the very capable hands of three excellent chefs, who spare no effort in providing an interesting, varied diet of a first class standard. Pupils' views are taken into account when menus are planned and regular meetings are held between the Catering Manager, Head of Residential Care and the pupils. Special diets and ethnic needs are provided for, as required. Pupils are encouraged to develop a willingness to try unfamiliar foods, to assist them in developing a more mature attitude towards diet. Appropriate table manners are encouraged at all times.