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Bellavista School is an independent preparatory school for children with learning potential, who are experiencing specific or generalised learning difficulties which prevent them from achieving success in a mainstream school environment.

We work as a dedicated, professional staff, each child receiving appropriate help from teachers, therapists and the school principal to ensure their success. We believe a holistic multidisciplinary approach is beneficial for each child to reach his or her potential.
The school curriculum is balanced and broad, containing all the subjects advocated in traditional schools but incorporating occupational, speech and language, remedial and psychological therapies to suit the individual child.

We pay special attention to each child's physical, intellectual, social, emotional and academic profile, nurturing their strengths and guiding them to use compensatory strategies to overcome areas of weakness.

Our ultimate aim is to reintroduce the child to mainstream education. We aim to ensure that pupils are self-confident, well-adjusted, independent and mature members of the community.
 
The school emblem is the original doorknocker from the school's first premises opened in 1967.
The lion symbolises strength and the knocker the receptiveness of children seeking education.
 
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When you first meet Ashley Herson, you notice how quiet she is. All the while she is observing the world and we see this when she looked at a little kitten and transformed it into a dynamic, vibrant creative drawing. When given a small amount of i-clay, Ashley created a detailed little dog.

She does have an extraordinary talent.