Small School, Big Hearts & Bright Futures
Small School, Big Hearts & Bright Futures
Clovelly House School is an independent special school for girls and boys from 10-19 based in a rural setting in the East Midlands. The ethos is that of a countryside school and the pupils, who have social, emotional and other complex needs, have opportunities to learn the core subjects embedded in a wider curriculum.
Here pupils learn how to manage different ecosystems such as the stream, pond, woods and gardens. We sometimes keep small animals such as chickens, ducks, guinea pigs. We try and participate in a variety of vocational lessons and engage in outdoor pursuits. Alongside this, in the eco-build school, pupils can access lessons to GCSE level through technology, individual packages and flexible learning programs.
We offer a supportive environment and create opportunities for the young people to develop self-esteem and confidence through achieving measured steps of success. Thus, the young people are supported to thrive and grow to responsible adulthood.
Clovelly House is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this responsibility. To achieve this commitment, we are continuously developing and improving our robust safeguarding processes and procedures to promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers.
Anybody who breaches this commitment, causing harm to a child, will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.
Having been in special education working with Looked After Children since 2001, I took the opportunity in 2016 to search for premises to open a new provision. When Clovelly came up for sale, this allowed me to put my vision for a therapeutic school and children’s home in place. Initially, we only took children from the home, but as this grew, we registered for 10 children and started taking day scholars there from 2018.
We obtained a lease for Enderby in 2019 and decided to open a ‘moving on’ division as an annex to Clovelly. This was registered as an exams centre and the 10 pupils admitted to the Enderby site, were encouraged to take up exam routes.
During 2024/25 we have grown further and are now taking pupils on outreach at one of our three off-site provisions based at Nuneaton, Coalville and Oaks in Charnwood. This allows us to continue to provide bespoke adaptive education to additional pupils who struggle with learning in groups. We are very proud of our school, our staff and our children and are pleased to be able to evidence all the good work that we do.
Please feel free to book a visit to our school where you will be welcomed.
We look forward to seeing you soon,
Many thanks,
Jennifer Collighan
School Principal
CHS Prospectus 2025-26 (docx)
DownloadClovelly House School, Clovelly, Merry Lees Rd, Thornton, Leicestershire, LE67 1AP
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