Mulberry Bush School

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The Mulberry Bush School
Address
Mulberry Bush School
Abingdon Road
Standlake

Witney
,
Oxfordshire
,
OX29 7RW

England
Coordinates 51°43′16″N1°26′02″W / 51.72104°N 1.434°W / 51.72104; -1.434
Information
TypeNon-Maintained Special School
Established1948
Founder Barbara Dockar Drysdale
Local authorityOxfordshire
Department for Education URN 123330 Tables
CEOJohn Diamond
Head TeacherJessica Hooper
Gender Coeducational
Age5to 12
Website http://www.mulberrybush.org.uk/

The Mulberry Bush School is an independent residential special school in the village of Standlake in Oxfordshire, for children aged 5 to 12 years.

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The school was founded in 1948 by self-taught psychologist Barbara Dockar Drysdale with the backing of the Ministry of Education and the Home Office. She and her husband were co-principals until 1962. [1]

The school is a registered charity. [2]

The Mulberry Bush School is the subject of a BBC documentary film, Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, directed by Kim Longinotto. [3]

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References

  1. "Drysdale, Barbara Estelle Dockar- [née Barbara Estelle Gordon] (1912–1999), psychotherapist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72159. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 17 April 2019.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "THE MULBERRY BUSH SCHOOL LTD, registered charity no. 309565". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  3. The Sunday Times, 11 May 2008.