The Students
Most dyslexic children are intelligent individuals who, without acquiring specialist learning skills, under-perform educationally compared with their non-dyslexic peers. This frequently leads to frustration and occasionally, in the wrong environment, humiliation.
Being dyslexic simply means that your brain has developed with different strengths so that it learns in a different way and traditional methods of teaching do not allow for this. Moon Hall has over twenty years of experience at taking in dyslexic children who have been marginalised and unhappy in a traditional environment and teaching them in a way in which they can learn.
Berry Baker, Founder and Principal of Moon Hall, confidently tells parents that their dyslexic child will be a new person within 4 weeks of joining the Moon Hall environment - most see a change within a fortnight!
Moon Hall College can be of benefit to all dyslexic pupils. While some of their dyslexic peers move up to and cope in traditional senior schools some older children and teenagers require more individual attention for longer, or may have had the condition diagnosed later.
Moon Hall College provides an environment dedicated to ensuring these special people have every opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Our first cohort of pupils completed their GCSEs this summer (2011) and passed at levels needed to go on to further education. We were very pleased with their individual results almost all of which exceeded expectations when the pupils joined us.
We celebrate individual achievements in and out of school and encourage our students to excel in a wide range of activities. For example:
- One of our senior Burys Court pupils was a finalist last year in a national poetry competition for which the school had entered him and others in his class.
- A group of our GCSE drama pupils will be travelling to New York with two teachers to visit Broadway and other sights.
- In a recent cross country running competition involving 75 children from schools across the South East, four of the Moon Hall team finished in the top 10 including the first girl, who came second overall in a girls’ record time.
- One of our pupils returned recently from a cricket tour of South Africa with an England team that played in a Tri-Nations tournament – a wonderful experience.
- One pupil competes at national level in water skiing and another in gymnastics.
- Our best hockey player has been talent spotted by a top club.
