Vision and Ethos

The Pears Family School is a centre of high-quality and innovative alternative education provision for children, families and schools across London.

Together we…Recover, rebuild and reintegrate.

Vision

Our vision is to rapidly provide our pupils with the confidence, educational progress and ambition necessary for a successful and sustained reintegration into a mainstream school or appropriate alternative educational setting.

This includes cultivating a productive lifestyle, personal resilience and the values required to become responsible members of society. 

INTRODUCTION

Combining the highest quality teaching methodologies with elements from the most up-to-date CAMHS practice, The Family School eases behavioural and mental health-related blocks to learning, and provides learning opportunities that keep pace with the pupil’s ability to learn and achieve.

A systemic multi-family based approach is used to notice and disrupt unhelpful patterns of behaviour to bring about sustainable and effective changes. This evidence based therapeutic education is high dosage, low threat and is delivered through our unique curriculum offer.

Considerable evidence has been gathered to show that helping a child to change problematic behaviours through family and multi-family based treatment is sustainably effective.  Delivering such interventions in a specialist classroom or school context is also highly effective, with the additional advantage of being more accessible and acceptable to the many families who find it hard to take up the more usual clinic-based offers.

Our fundamental belief is that all children have a right to high-quality education, even when they are psychologically or emotionally unwell, or when their behaviour is preventing them making progress in mainstream schools, and that their learning and education should continue during their treatment and recovery.

Vision and Ethos in Summary

We aim to provide our pupils with the confidence, educational progress and ambition necessary for a successful reintegration into the next appropriate educational setting. This includes cultivating a productive lifestyle, personal resilience and the values required to become responsible members of society.