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Welcome to Meadowcroft School

At Meadowcroft School, we are committed to creating a safe, nurturing and ambitious environment where every child and young person is known, valued and supported to thrive.

Across our four sites – The Lodge, The Gallery, The Hub and The Works – we provide specialist education and therapeutic support for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs, alongside a range of additional learning and communication differences. We understand that many of our pupils may have experienced challenges within education previously, and we believe that positive relationships, trust and a genuine sense of belonging are the foundations from which successful learning grows.

Our staff team works hard to understand every child as an individual. We celebrate progress in all its forms and maintain high aspirations for every pupil, both academically and personally. Through carefully planned support, therapeutic approaches and meaningful opportunities, we help young people to develop confidence, resilience, independence and hope for the future.

At Meadowcroft, success is not measured by one single pathway. We want our pupils to leave us with the skills, qualifications, self-belief and emotional understanding needed to lead healthy, happy and fulfilling adult lives.

“At Meadowcroft, we believe that strong relationships, high expectations and a culture of belonging can transform lives and create futures filled with hope.”

Gavin Hosford, Executive Headteacher

Our Vision

At the Meadowcroft School we believe that every child and young person has the potential to be a ‘STAR’. We provide a bespoke system that underpins and runs throughout our core values for staff, pupils and all stakeholders.

Our Values

We believe all students have the right to learn what is in our full curriculum offer; we have a duty to ensure all students are not provided with a narrowed or marginalised version and to develop their self-belief to comprehend and complete tasks to a good standard..

Our Aims

We will aim for stability for all our young people. This will allow teachers to develop expertise and teaching materials to support the curriculum. This in turn will support our students to have the ambition to achieve their learning goals.

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Since Luke has been at Meadowcroft, his life and our lives have changed massively; he’s a completely different person. It’s the first time he’s been in a school that fully understands him. The communication between the school and home is first class. I know that staff at Meadowcroft have Luke’s interests at heart – It’s a brilliant place!

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The school know that I want to go into landscaping when I’m older so they have been able to put me on Land Based Studies course. I would never believe that I could be getting a Gold Award and a chance to go to Buckingham Palace. It’s really good to be in a place where people understand me.

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Pupil

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Meadowcroft School has helped me give my son opportunities and the future he deserves, and given me the wonderful son I always knew I had. He just needed to be understood.

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Parent

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The staff team are patient, good listeners, friendly and kind. They helped me apply for colleges and prepare for my interviews to get onto the course I wanted to do.

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Due to the forecasted snow conditions on Thursday 8th February 2024, the decision has been made to close the school for the day.
We look forward to seeing pupils back on Friday 9th February 2024.

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News 07/02/24

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