Grove House Academy

Grove House Academy
As a school, we are duty bound to meet every student’s academic needs and development requirements on an individual basis. No child will go overlooked, each child in our care is continually assessed for their academic and personal development. Any concerns either from the school or parent in relation to academic or personal attributes, will be processed immediately and a solution, intervention or individualised programme introduced with the parents’ consent.
Grove House Academy is an inclusive English education boarding school. Most of our teaching is grounded in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme*. We also offer state of the art laptop learning sessions, each child will receive laptop based programmes such as, Fast ForWord which gives them a personal teaching regime to improve reading and language skills. Laptop learning provides the child with non-critical feedback and helpful learning tips in a disruption free setting. Each student will be tested to English education standards regularly to review the child’s progress.
Our staff are trained to teach mainstream and SPED education and we try to include where possible, SPED assessed students into the mainstream classroom. Where this is not possible, the child will be fully accommodated with SPED programmes and therapies to suit the individual requirements of that student. If that child can be included in the mainstream setting in the future, everything within our abilities will be done to achieve this.
Foremost, we will endeavor to provide our students with the most progressive education programmes availed. Our teachers are continually assessed and trained to fulfill the requirements of modern teaching techniques and instill a caring approach to their student community. The school has a research and development team which meet each month to discuss new teaching theories, techniques and investigate resources. They frequently attend seminars, so that the school is constantly improving the educational programmes and therapies to service our student community with excellent resources and facilities.
Grove House Academy strives to realise the potential of every student. We have countless activities for the students to engage in, which help to improve their social skills, physical strength and motor skills. Your child will be happier and more confident in an educational setting that provides stimulus through team work and adrenalin fuelled fun activities. Our facilities include a dance studio, where children can learn modern jazz, ballet, tap and street dance. We also have extensive gym facilities, indoor and outdoor, so no matter what the weather your child gets exercise and stimulation which improves concentration in the classroom.

*we are currently in the trial phase of our accreditation process with the IB organisation.
For team spirit and social improvements, we offer tradition English games, including Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, Soccer and a few international favourites of Basketball and Baseball. We also have a horse riding facility which teaches English and Western styles of riding and a modern Equine Learning Programme. For older children there is available a horse husbandry course, which provides full knowledge of equine maintenance, breeding and sports application so that the student learns how to own, care and ride horses to a proficiency that could be of commercial use in the future.
Our SPED facilities include a therapy room to accommodate occupational therapies, brain gym workouts, ADHD and ASD programmes. All children can benefit from Brain Gym workouts which improve coordination, increase brain function working both side of the brain (usually we are left or right brained, just like our hands) increasing activity on both sides of the brain improves our ability to think and problem solve more effectively. In turn this improves your concentration rates in the classroom which is essential for good grades.