Welcome to The Sheiling Ringwood
Set in a stunning, sustainable and eco-friendly 45-acre site close to the New Forest and Dorset coastline, the natural surroundings of our school and college provide a rich, enabling and therapeutic learning environment for students, aged 5-25, who have a special educational need.
We specialise in autism and communication difficulties, severe and complex learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge.
Our mission is to create an educational, therapeutic community and environment, which upholds each person's human integrity and spiritual wholeness and where every child and young person, both because of and despite their individual challenges, has something to give and something to learn through all of their relationships with others.
Corine van Barneveld
Principal
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Our beautiful Earth Candle captured during Candlemas celebrations @thesheilingringwood. Our whole school and college community gathered to decorate and light the candle and join together in song. It was an uplifting celebration of light and new beginnings, held in the garden of muchloved residential house Westmount and alongside Taurus, the Sheiling's new double classroom for college opening later in 2026. Everyone was invited to share their 'good wishes notes' - messages written as wishes for peace around the world - the notes were tied to one of our magnificent trees, creating a moving symbol of hope and renewal. #school #college #residential #day #healthandtherapies #community #newdoubleclassroom #SEND #dorset #hampshire.