Our new SEMH nurture provision, Shortenills Abbey, opened in April 2024 and currently offers 3 secondary SEMH classes, with 8 students per class.

Our existing SEMH provision, Shortenills, opened in Chalfont St Giles in 2021, for students with EHCPs for social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Due to increasing demand, we were proud to open our new site in Aylesbury which follows the model developed by our existing Shortenills provision.

We believe that young people with SEMH difficulties need and deserve a loving, nurturing approach, clear and high expectations of their behaviour, social development and academic work, and carefully planned support and intervention that enables them to meet and exceed those expectations.

Our aim is to further develop a provision where children and young people learn to manage their SEMH difficulties in school, and in the world, and where they are enabled to study a broad and balanced curriculum, and create exciting and fulfilling futures for themselves.