Hospital Tuition

At the Pinderfields site in-patients are taught in bright and stimulating classrooms adjacent to the children's wards. One classroom has a network of computers with Internet capability.

In-patients who are unable to leave the ward are educated at the bedside, and these pupils too can access the Internet via a wireless radio link. We aim to continue the child in-patient's education during their stay in hospital and will contact their home school if their stay is to be longer than a few days. This enables us to find out the pupils current stage of development and the type of work being taught which informs our planning and the appropriate provision of work. Home schools are asked to send in work for those pupils who are expected to be in hospital for six weeks, enabling pupils to complete the work being done by their class and keep up with their peers.



There are three paediatric wards across the Hospital Trust for patients from birth to sixteen and there is specialist provision for burns and spinal injuries. As children are in hospital for a variety of medical reasons, these must be the first consideration in any educational provision.
	At the Pinderfields site in-patients are taught in bright and stimulating classrooms adjacent to the children's wards. One classroom has a network of computers with Internet capability. In-patients who are unable to leave the ward are educated at the bedside, and these pupils too can access the Internet via a wireless radio link. We aim to continue the child in-patient's education during their stay in hospital and will contact their home school if their stay is to be longer than a few days. This enables us to find out the pupils current stage of development and the type of work being taught which informs our planning and the appropriate provision of work. Home schools are asked to send in work for those pupils who are expected to be in hospital for six weeks, enabling pupils to complete the work being done by their class and keep up with their peers.
	The school is a registered Examinations Centre and pupils who are in hospital and are considered well enough, may take "A" level, GCSE, National Curriculum tests or other important school examinations, under suitable conditions, at very short notice. Details of the pupils incapacity and the conditions in which the examinations were taken are forwarded to Examination Boards for special consideration.