Our School
Our Purpose
Our vision is to lead in transforming the futures of intelligent children who experience literacy and language-related special educational needs, including Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), by empowering them.
Our school’s full Statement of Purpose can be viewed here:
Or you can view a more accessible, pupil-friendly version of the Statement of Purpose here:
At More House School, we empower our pupils with special educational needs to overcome barriers to learning. Many of our boys arrive with low self-esteem, acutely aware of their struggles. Our mission is to help them discover their strengths, build confidence, and believe in their potential. Through our bespoke day and boarding provisions, we nurture self-belief and inspire high aspirations, encouraging each pupil to embrace who they are—strengths, challenges, and all. This foundation leads to remarkable academic and personal growth.
At the centre of our approach are three core values:
Kindness, Spirit and Responsibility
These values underpin our school’s curriculum, extra-curricular programme, boarding provision, and staff and pupil policies and processes, including those supporting pupils’ pastoral care, wellbeing and behaviour. All members of staff—teachers, therapists, boarding, and support teams—are united in a commitment to ongoing professional development. This ensures that every aspect of school life, from academic learning to therapeutic support and social experiences, is shaped by a deep understanding of each pupil’s individual strengths and needs. In doing so, we maximise each student’s self-belief, growth, and long-term success. Our students leave equipped to thrive as independent, self-assured individuals, ready to contribute meaningfully to a diverse, global society.
At More House, we have 7 specific aims which help us with our mission to make learning accessible for our pupils, empowering them to lead aspirational futures. These aims are based on:
Adapting to the individual
To support the individual needs of each pupil, as individuals, so that each thrives, adapting continuously our teaching and support strategies to challenge appropriately pupils’ diverse strengths and weaknesses.
Physical and mental wellbeing
To provide all pupils with an environment in which they feel, and are, safe and confident in being themselves, and through which they develop effective skills to promote their mental health and wellbeing.
Self-respect and aspiration
To foster in all pupils a powerful desire to question and to learn, so that they develop insight into themselves and build self-value and belief, realising high aspirations for their future in terms of continued education and learning, their professional career, and social relationships.
Academic outcomes
To provide a transformative learning environment and opportunities for our pupils so that they achieve outstanding academic results, above the national age-related averages, both at level two and three, despite having Specific Learning Difficulties, Developmental Language Disorder and associated special educational needs.
Confidence, resilience and independence
To develop our pupils to become confident and resilient young people, with the experience and skills that allow them to lead independent lives within a modern world, and with the desire to be involved in society.
Respect and tolerance
To foster amongst all pupils an understanding, care and tolerance of all others, within the School’s Roman Catholic ethos and in accordance with the fundamental values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Promoting best-practice
To collaborate with and promote research into the education and support of children and young people with language-related educational difficulties, using research to improve educational outcomes for all pupils, including those in other educational settings, through delivering the highest quality professional development, training and support to promote best-practice.
Our school promotes the moral teachings of the Christian faith within the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, but teaches tolerance and understanding of other faiths and cultural beliefs, and promotes freedom of expression and personal choice. The complementary attributes of respect and a keen curiosity are strongly encouraged in all pupils. Our school welcomes and supports pupils, adults and their wider families who may be of any religious faith or none.
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