Our aim is to integrate our children back into mainstream education. An important part of each child's final year is educational advice to parents and reports by the Principal to prospective senior schools.

The aim is to match a range of possible senior schools to the individual child and the Principal can give recommendations on senior schools. He regularly visits secondary schools in order to inform himself on available facilities and standards of dyslexic support. He has close personal contacts with many appropriate schools and can advise parents on their child's further education.

The majority of our pupils go on to mainstream, independent schools, usually those with some specialist support available. Many of our pupils have gone on to further education. We enjoy keeping in touch with our leavers, many of whom visit regularly, especially on our Summer Fair and Prizegiving Day.

... happy and successful children at an outstanding, effective school ...

Case Study 1

Neil joined the school when he was 11 years old in 1983. Although a weak reader and very poor speller, he was talented at Mathematics and Science. He made good progress, particularly in overcoming his low self-esteem. In 1994 he presented our prizes at Open Day having been awarded a 2:1 degree in Astronautics and Physics. Neil's final year project was designing a space yacht!

Case Study 2

Toby joined East Court at 9 years old, a complete non-starter in reading and spelling. Reading was so painful for him that he continually twisted his hands about and showed extreme anxiety. He left when he was 13 years old, reading fluently well above his age, a confident young man who was awarded an Art Scholarship to his senior school.

Case Study 3

Robert joined the school at 10 years old, reading and spelling three years behind his chronological age. When he left at 13 he was 6' 1" tall, read and spelt competently and was an outstanding sportsman. He currently plays Rugby for the South East Counties. His brother, who also went to East Court, is now playing Rugby for the England under 18s!

Case Study 4

Tim joined at 10 years old and was reported to be a difficult and disruptive pupil at his primary school, a feature we did not notice at the interview. With the right attention, he turned out to be a charming and well-behaved young man. A computer wizard, he did leave us with a little problem on our network (but also left the solution with the IT teacher!). He turned up on our doorstep recently having travelled around Eastern Europe and Russia. Tim graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Engineering.

Case Study 5

Sarah's self-esteem, when she joined us at 10 years old, was so low she used to hide her work. Nonetheless, she really took off and decided she wanted to become a teacher. When we last saw her (arriving in her own car!), she had graduated in Psychology and was enjoying teacher training. Sarah is one of a growing number of dyslexics in teaching who fully appreciate the dyslexic child's problems.