I am pleased to welcome you to Merryfields School. We currently provide education for approximately 100 pupils aged 2 to 11 years. Merryfields School is a member of Manor Hall Academy Trust.
We are a generic special school which means we can meet the needs of any pupil whose needs cannot be met in mainstream education.
Merryfields is an attractive, purpose-built and welcoming school set in pleasant grounds within the
residential area of Wolstanton, a mile away from Newcastle town centre. Our work with pupils is enhanced by good resources and great care has been given to the security of the site to ensure that pupils are safe.
Sarah Poyner
Headteacher
For pupils to make the best possible progress in all areas of learning and development through high quality teaching, which is imaginative and challenging.
To provide a broad, balanced and appropriate curriculum, with individual targets.
To ensure pupils are guided towards independence and that they have challenging demands made of them.
To promote good relationships amongst pupils and to encourage pupils to value each other.
To encourage the development of positive attitudes and positive behaviour in partnership with the whole community.
To ensure school is a happy place to work and visit, and where success and achievement are celebrated daily.
To provide a safe, happy, caring, stimulating environment wherein each pupil is able to develop to their maximum potential.
The Manor Hall Academy Trust is a growing Multi Academy Trust. The strength of the Trust and its distinctive feature is that it is a Collaborative Educational Trust between Special Schools who meet a range of needs. Schools, working together with the same values creating secure foundations for the future.
Historically, the special school sector has been a strength in Staffordshire. This was in no small part down to how special schools worked together in collaboration. We believe this strength is something we cannot lose and that special schools share common problems and issues which require similar solutions. In the future, the growth of the Manor Hall Trust and its Special School membership can only be to the benefit of the individual schools and most importantly the children and young adults. We also recognise that historic boundaries are gradually disappearing and we are open to working with schools across the West Midlands.
"The strong curriculum promotes pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development well. This is enriched through visits and residential experiences."
Ofsted Report 2014
