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About Moor House
Moor House is a non-maintained specialist school for day and residential students from age 7 to 19. Our students come from across the country, with places funded by Local Education Authorities.
Our school provides a mainstream curriculum which is differentiated for language. Speech and Language therapy is integrated throughout the curriculum through the consistent use of specialist systems such as the SHAPE CODING™ system, signing with grammatical markers and Cued Articulation.
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Our approach ensures that our students achieve their learning potential, maximise their communications skills, and become happy, confident, independent and valued members of society.
Moor House is consistently rated Outstanding by Ofsted.
OUR AIMS
Moor House’s main aims are to support our students to:
Be happy and safe
Achieve their learning potential
Develop their skills in speech, language and communication
Build and maintain good relationships and friendships
Become confident and independent members of society
About Moor House
Over 70 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Moor House School opened in June 1947 and was the first school of its kind. It was set up by Dr Worster-Drought, a neurologist and Mrs Hudson Smith, a speech therapist and Principal of the West End School for Speech Therapy, London.
From 1947 until 2011, all students at Moor House were residential. In 2011, the decision was made to welcome day students and in 2012 we extended our provision by opening a sixth form provision and became Moor House School & College.
The school’s first patron was Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, who supported the school’s work and visited in 1953. MHS&C is extremely fortunate to have HRH Countess of Wessex as our Patron. Her Royal Highness has been particularly supportive of the work of the School & College and has visited the provision on more than one occasion, most recently to open the Residential Village in November 2016.
Pioneering work
Since 1947, pioneering work in speech and language therapy and teaching methods has continued at Moor House.
OFSTED Care Report 2020
Today, through the work of the Moor House Research and Training Institute, we are at the forefront of global research and training in the field of speech and language disabilities, taking the benefits of our work out more widely in the UK and globally through our training courses and resources for professionals.
