Welcome to The Sheiling Ringwood
Set in a stunning, sustainable and eco-friendly 45-acre site close to the New Forest and Dorset coastline, the natural surroundings of our school and college provide a rich, enabling and therapeutic learning environment for students, aged 5-25, who have a special educational need.
We specialise in autism and communication difficulties, severe and complex learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge.
Our mission is to create an educational, therapeutic community and environment, which upholds each person's human integrity and spiritual wholeness and where every child and young person, both because of and despite their individual challenges, has something to give and something to learn through all of their relationships with others.
Corine van Barneveld
Principal
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@thesheilingringwood we are proud of our rich festival calendar and November brings us Martinmas, one of our most magical celebrations. Martinmas is a festival about sharing. It illustrates the story of St Martin, who was known for his gentle nature and ability to bring warmth and light to those in need. To capture this, students each carry a lantern to symbolise their own warmth and light on a beautiful walk around our woodland campus jewelled with lanterns decorated by students and staff. Martinmas reminds us as nature begins to sleep, we must remain wakeful and aware of our own light to share with the world. To find out more about our annual festivals visit https://www.thesheilingringwood.co.uk/festivals #school #college #residential #day #healthandtherapies #SEND #Dorset #Hampshire #community #Martinmas