Dibden Site

DIBDEN SITE OVERVIEW

Key Staff

Assistant Head: Dylan Knight

History

Originally a part of Wildground School in the 1970’s and latterly a satellite site for Totton College Adult Education, New Forest School purchased the Dibden site in 2016 and it underwent a significant refurbishment to allow us to expand the curriculum offer and numbers of students on roll for New Forest School.

Age Range and Focus

Year 7 to Year 11.

The long-term aim is to focus of our Dibden Site to deliver a more vocational curriculum offer for key stage three and four students who are unable to access a traditional academic curriculum.

Facilities

Dibden Site is a single-story building located in the heart of Dibden Purlieu which caters for up to 25 Students.

Fully integrated in the community our Dibden site caters for class sizes of four students and has 7 fully equipped classrooms to deliver a full curriculum, as well as a designated IT/DT suite.

The outside space consists of an outside play area which has recently been upgraded to include basketball and football nets. Raised bedding where students can grow produce to use in the catering lessons, as well as benches to sit and make use of in social times.

The site has a therapeutic intervention building located at the far end of the main building occupying ELSA and Occupational Therapy for those students referred to Clinical Services.

Future Developments

We currently have planning permission to replace the current ICT & DT block with a larger bespoke building which will include changing rooms, 1:1 and pastoral space as well as two small classrooms alongside a larger ICT and DT classroom.