North Hill House School

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.