Meade Hill School

The Federation is a partnership of EBSD day and residential schools and settings within and beyond the city of Manchester.

It aims to provide:

• Continuinity for the changing needs of EBSD pupils.
• A flexible and responsive range of educational experiences for EBSD pupils.
• Coherence, collaboration and support networks for teaching and support staff in each of the schools and settings.
• A range of staff, teaching and non teaching, school and non-school based, whose role is to support vulnerable and challenging pupils within the Federation.
• Support and collaboration for the leaders of its schools and settings.
• Challenging and provocative professional development which moves practice forward yet still focuses on the core purpose of teaching and learning.
• A range of accredited vocational courses, like construction and catering.
• Productive partnerships with all areas of Children's Services so that we work in an integrated way to secure positive outcomes for young people in the Every Child Matters areas:

•   Being safe
•   Being healthy
•   Enjoying and achieving
•   Making a positive contribution
•   Economic well-being

To achieve and maintain a quality of teaching and learning experience which...

• raises individual pupil standards of achievement and attainment; and
• develops aspiring confident and independent young people.

Aims

1. To enhance the self-esteem of all pupils and promote positive appropriate behaviour;
2. to develop academic achievement, skills, creativity, imagination, initiative and individuality in all pupils;
3. to promote a caring community which respects the contributions and values of all sections of society;
4. to involve pupils and parents/cares in the educative process and build a successful partnership between home and school; and
5. to prepare pupils for adult life.