Brymore Academy

School runs specific literacy and social-emotional-mental-health intervention groups including morning readers, Thinking Reading, ELSA, cooking, Lego Therapy and Talkabout

“We place a great deal of emphasis on supporting boy’s literacy skills and run a range of successful intervention groups including morning readers and Thinking Reading – all co-ordinated by our literacy specialist.”

SEND team states inclusion is at the forefront of all they do

“Our SEND team at Brymore work exceptionally hard to ensure that inclusion is at the forefront of all we do.”

The school employs a dedicated Counsellor on staff.

“Marianne Hendry | Counsellor”

The school has separate Pastoral Manager roles for boarding and day students.

“Stephanie Moore | Pastoral Manager (Boarding)”

The well-equipped metal workshop supports both GCSE teaching and an Engineering Level 2 course.

“The Metal workshop is very well equipped and allows us to not only teach GCSE materials but also to run our Engineering Level 2 course.”

After-school curriculum time offers vocational craft courses such as blacksmithing and welding.

“Within the courtyard we also have the capacity for students to undertake courses run during after school curriculum time such as blacksmithing, copper smithing, welding, engineering and wood classes.”

The school has a nationally recognised walled garden with RHS level 5 status, providing outdoor/horticultural enrichment.

“The school has a one acre walled garden and is one of only a handful nationally to be awarded RHS level 5 status.”

School ethos centres on instilling responsibility in students to prepare them for work, especially in the land-based sector.

“supporting the schools aim of instilling responsibility within the students to prepare them for the world of work, both within the land-based sector and beyond.”