Blossom House, Merton
Borough: Merton
Address: 8 The Drive
Town: Wimbledon
Postcode: SW20 8TG
Phone: 020 8946 7348
Fax: 020 8944 5848
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Website: Blossom House
Nearest tube or station: Train station:
Raynes Park
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Blossom House is a specialist school in Wimbledon for children from three to
sixteen with speech , language and communication impairments. Although many of the children have some associated
difficulties such as fine motor problems or poor organisational skills, they are all within normal range of
intelligence. Our aim is that in the course of time as many children as possible will return to mainstream
education.
Communication is fundamental to learning and in the majority of children the skills that are
required to become good communicators develop spontaneously and effortlessly. There are, however, a group of
children for whom the acquisition of these vital skills is a real problem and this number appears to be growing.
We can rarely pin-point the cause of a speech and language disorder and although research is being undertaken, I
suspect that we may never know the exact reason for these children's failure to develop speech and language.
However, what we can do is to provide a high quality education that enables them to reach their potential.
Blossom House provides an integrated programme of learning in a caring and highly supportive
environment. Self-esteem and confidence are crucial to success and many of our children arrive at Blossom House
with a very poor self-image and little belief in any ability they do have. A positive behavioural approach
encompasses every part of the school life so that all acceptable and appropriate behaviours are rewarded and
unacceptable or inappropriate behaviours are ignored as far as possible. This often means that we have to praise
the children for looking at the speaker or sitting quietly on their chairs - actions that in the normal course
of life would never be commented on.
At Blossom House the children follow the National Curriculum
although some areas will need modification to take account of specific difficulties. All the children in the
full-time school learn keyboard skills as soon as they are developmentally ready with the aim that they will be
able to use a laptop computer for some of their work later on. Speech and language therapy is an integral part
of the curriculum and each child has access to a speech and language therapist daily either individually or in a
small group session.
Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and music therapy are also key areas of the
curriculum and each child will have the opportunity to have both individual and/or group sessions if the need is
there.
Blossom House has a unique atmosphere created by a totally dedicated highly competent and
wonderfully caring staff. Each child is valued as an individual so that his or her own specific strengths are
acknowledged and weaknesses supported.
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