Maypole Farm
Maypole Farm provides a beautiful and holistic outside learning space for young people to flourish, build confidence and make progress with education and well-being pathways. The farm offers access to courses in animal care, construction, engineering and much more. In addition, studnets can benefit from animal-assisted therapy and forest school.
Maypole Farm
How We Work:
We support children and young people who may be school-avoidant or struggling to flourish within their allocated school provision.
We work with:
- Local Authorities
- Schools and alternative provisions
- Parents and carers with personal budgets or private funding.
Who We Support:
Maypole Farm helps students to re-engage with life and learning in a child-centric way that is relevant to their interests and aspirations.
We can support:
- Achieving a new school place
- Preparing re-entry to an existing school placement
- Continuing education at Maypole Farm
- Therapeutic interventions.
Tuition and EOTAS Placements
Maypole Farm offers animal assisted learning and therapy as a way to connect and support children and young people with SEMH (social, emotional and mental health), confidence or well-being needs. Our farm is specifically designed to provide creative learning opportunities for all students, some of whom may be living with attachment disorders, experiencing (EBSA) emotionally-based school avoidance or anxiety-related absence.
As part of the Tuition Extra Group, we work in close collaboration within a multi-professional team. Our core offering benefits from skilled subject specialists tutors, a dedicated SEND team and a full therapeutic provision, including practitioners delivering the celebrated Thrive Approach for emotional development and regulation.
Where is Maypole Farm?
At Maypole Farm, we inspire a deep connection between our young people and the natural world.
Our 18 acre farm provision is based in Hoath near Canterbury in Kent, on a beautiful 54 acre site, backing on to the protected Blean Woodland.
Animal Assisted Therapy
We understand that animals can act as a healthy distraction whilst building connection and confidence in an intuitive and sensitive way.
Our students develop positive relationships with many of our furry or feathered friends who enable them to gain a sense of identity and belonging whilst learning to regulate and make progress with life skills and education programmes.
The Thrive Approach underpins the principles of our success in relation to student engagement and impressive academic outcomes.
Individual Thrive Approach action plans are created for each student, providing a raft of strategies and age-appropriate activities to scaffold emotional development and regulation skills.
These strategies have a direct impact on emotional stability, resilience, academic re-engagement and outstanding outcomes.
Animal Assisted Learning
A tailored and relevant programme can be implemented as part of Maypole Farm’s provision, to include academics, well-being and therapeutics.
Tuition Extra is affiliated with Pearson Edexcel and the following qualifications can be accessed via our in-house Exams Office:
Contact Us
Refer a child or young person!
Tuition Extra
Unit 8 Roper Yard
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 7EX