Students with special needs outperform national results!
Local children who have faced barriers in education because of their special educational needs are celebrating extraordinary results in this summer’s GCSEs.
All pupils at Frensham’s More House School have struggled with literacy and developmental language related special needs, including dyslexia. However, in picking up their GCSE and BTec results this summer, the students discovered they had outperformed national expectations.
The Year 11 pupils beat the national statistic for good GCSE passes by 12 percent, chalking up an impressive 81% success rate. This is despite 77% of pupils holding Education, Health and Care Plans which recognise a high complexity of need.
More House’s headmaster, Jonathan Hetherington praised pupils and staff at the school, stating “Neurodiversity is a strength of our society. More House holds very high ambitions for our pupils and we are thrilled by their success”. He pointed to More House’s beating national grades in 14 different subjects at GCSE, including in English, Maths and the sciences.
Studying an academic, mainstream curriculum, students at More House access Speech & Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy, as well as expert Literacy support. The school is recognised nationally as a centre of excellence, providing training and consultancy to more than 270 schools UK-wide. 35 local authorities send young people to More House, which was awarded four ‘Exceptional’ gradings by Ofsted under the new inspection framework, earlier this year.
Following their GCSE and BTec success, all of More House’s Year 11s will commence their Further Education studies this autumn, with a majority entering the school’s own established Sixth Form at Frensham.
