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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The Sheiling Ringwood
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We were delighted to welcome Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset, Sir Christopher Lees, the Mayor of Ringwood, Cllr Mary DeBoos, and Cllr Richard Burton, BCP's Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, alongside local authority representatives, parents, supporters, Trustees and members of the wider community to celebrate the opening of Taurus, our new purpose-built, state-of-the-art double classroom building for college students. Following the official ribbon-cutting ceremony, we were pleased to show guests around the new building, giving them the opportunity to meet and chat with our students, staff and Trustees. We also enjoyed spending time together over refreshments in our beautiful grounds. #school #college #residential #day #healthandtherapies #SEND #nature #dorset #hampshire #75years