Philpots Manor School is a residential school and Training Centre based on the social and educational principles of Rudolf Steiner. It was founded in 1958 to offer care and education to children with special needs who have, because of their own particular difficulties, been unable to learn and develop within the setting of an ordinary school.
The school admits children who present a broad range of emotional and behavioural difficulties. Most are below average ability and have moderate learning difficulties. These may stem from social deprivation or abuse and/or a recognised clinical condition, such as epilepsy, a developmental disorder or mild autistic tendencies. Children are eligible providing they have the potential to function in a classroom situation where children are helped to reach their full potential within the Steiner curriculum.
The school provides a caring atmosphere which nurtures the children's sense of well-being and encourages them to relate to peers and others within a socially structured and harmonious environment, including the natural surroundings of the school. By the time the pupils leave us it is our AIM that they have acquired a sense of self-respect, self-control and personal responsibility in order to give them confidence to go out into the community.
