Welcome to Stormont House School

Hello, and welcome to our website

I have the good fortune to be Headteacher of this outstanding school and I’d like to tell you a bit more about us:

The pupils are terrific: all have well-documented difficulties, but all come with untapped strengths and talents too. They each make massive journeys in their learning and personal development from start to finish (even though there may be bumps in the road at times!)
We became one of the very first outstanding schools in the country and have now been judged as ‘outstanding’ four times by Ofsted (2005, 2008, 2014, 2018).
Our vision aims even higher: ‘Achievement for all in a unique world-class school’. In July 2018 we were in the first small group of special schools to receive the ‘World Class Schools Quality Mark’.
We intend to be the best in the world at what we do; to achieve this we need staff who are already very good and also intend to be the best at what they do.
We take all that stuff in our School Development Plan very seriously: an ‘APE’ curriculum (appropriate, progressive, enjoyable); Visible Learning (improving our practice using research) and Well-being (student and staff).
We know we’re far from perfect; we make mistakes but try to learn from them.
We’re not a school that works well for every type or complexity of need, so please read ‘Who the school is for’ in the ‘About us‘ section.
We are one of the lead schools in the Hackney Teaching Schools’ Alliance (HTSA). This means that we work closely with other schools to improve teacher training and sharing best practice.
We are also a National Support School, which means that we support other schools where and when it is most needed.