Miss Vinall - Headteacher

It is a pleasure to welcome you to The White House School. I am exceptionally proud to be the Headteacher of our small, caring community of happy and engaged children, supportive parents and devoted staff. Having spent the last fourteen years of my career in special educational needs education, I am delighted to lead a values based, nurturing, holistic and mindful school, which serves to deliver a unique, memorable and successful learning experience for our children.

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At The White House School we embrace a personalised approach to education, in recognition that our pupils each have unique talents and learning profiles. We offer a specialist learning provision which emphasises the development of core academic understanding, encourages creativity, celebrates outdoor learning and promotes the growth of essential life skills, including mindfulness.

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Our pupils join us at varying stages of their journey through education. Our intention is to ensure each and every pupil understands their place in the world, to support them with self-regulation, communication and preparation for adulthood and life after school. This is achieved through a holistic, mindful and academically ambitious approach.

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Our curriculum has been designed with this and our three core values in mind. We offer a bespoke curriculum, which is academically ambitious, nurtures their personal development, develops resilience and provides them with a sense of community. It is highly tailored to meet the individual needs of our pupils. The ability to be able to mindfully self-regulate, to be self-aware of their emotions and undertake essential life skills is an ambition we hold for each pupil, so that they enter adulthood, with a toolkit of social, emotional and communication strategies as well as a developed ‘sense of self’.

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We are thought leaders in special educational needs and mindful education. This is reflected in our therapeutic classrooms and curriculum offer, which have been carefully designed to place a balanced emphasis on academic success and personal development. Running parallel to our academic curriculum, is our personal development and cultural capital programme, ‘The White House Way’. Designed to supplement and enhance our curriculum, this programme covers a range of experiences, trips, activities and skills which all pupils take part in, by the time they leave us.

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​Ultimately, we want our children to wake up each morning and feel happy and excited to come to school. We care deeply for our pupils. Their academic success, emotional wellbeing and personal development is at the heart of all that we will do at The White House School. As our ethos states, we aim for all our children to have ‘Healthy Minds and Happy Hearts’. When they leave us, we hope they look back on their time with us with nothing but very fond and happy memories.

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​In order to meet the needs of our family-feel community, we have small class sizes. If you feel that our school would be a fulfilling and appropriate setting for your child, please do not hesitate to contact me or one of our team. We hope to welcome you soon.