North Hill House

Mission Statement 'The fostering of a responsible, positive outlook on life and achievement through the provision of an appropriate and stimulating educational environment.'

Purpose North Hill House aims:

To develop and enhance abilities, giving appropriate guidance with realistic expectations.
To plan flexible and varied individual education programmes promoting academic and life skills in a supportive learning community.
To manage behaviour consistently, clearly defining rules and boundaries and using rewards and sanctions to demonstrate the consequences of actions.
To help students develop strategies to cope with conflict, anger, stress and anxiety.
To motivate students to assert themselves in a positive way while respecting the rights and sensibilities of others.
To encourage interaction with others, promoting participation and teamwork and building self-esteem and self-reliance through a broad range of approaches.
To promote awareness of self and others by developing relationship-building and communication skills; thus helping students to recognise and share feelings, and by offering spiritual and moral guidance.
To demonstrate the importance of acceptable and appropriate behaviour, including equal opportunities issues. · To build and develop a partnership between home and school, which is reflective of the school's team approach.
To develop positive links with the local community.