Where a Love of Learning Grows
Birch Wood School
Where a Love of Learning Grows
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We provide a wonderful learning environment and SEND expert staff who are highly committed to our pupils. An education at Birch Wood positively changes children’s lives allowing them to achieve their ‘personal best’. Our ENABLES culture embodies our high aspirations and unwavering passion and determination to provide outstanding outcomes for every pupil.
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🌳This Week at Birch Wood
It’s been another incredibly busy and joyful week right across Birch Wood, filled with connection, learning and celebration.
💗 SWAN Undiagnosed Children’s Day
Today, Merlins and Kites proudly marked Undiagnosed Children’s Day, raising awareness of children and young people who live with complex needs without a formal diagnosis, often known as SWAN children (Syndrome Without A Name).
Pupils and staff took part in pink‑themed, multi‑sensory exploration activities, celebrating our SWAN friends through shared sensory experiences, connection and joy ✨
Pink is worn worldwide on this day to symbolise awareness, acceptance and belonging – values that sit at the heart of everything we do in Merlins and Kites, every single day 💕
🌞 Grange Drive Adventures
At Grange Drive, pupils have been making the most of the beautiful weather, playing with friends in the playground, visiting local parks, exploring a range of activities in Forest School, and enjoying lots of pirate themed fun.
Students in The Treehouse also represented Birch Wood at a KS2 athletics competition at Saffron Lane, showing fantastic determination and teamwork.
We also loved Leicester Wheels, where pupils had an amazing time riding a wide variety of bikes 🚴♀️
🐐 Birch Wood College Brooksby College Farm Visit
Students at Birch Wood College enjoyed a fantastic visit to Brooksby College Farm, exploring wildlife areas, learning about local habitats and discovering real badger setts.
They met a range of farm animals, including piglets less than 24 hours old! A huge thank you to Farmer Rose and Farmer Carol for making the day so engaging, informative and memorable. The visit linked beautifully to learning about animal care, life cycles and the natural environment, with students engaged from start to finish.
🎨 Birch Wood Vale Exams and Enterprise Success
At BWV, we are incredibly proud of our pupils who completed their Art and Design exams this week!
Our student enterprise company BW Bargains also had a brilliant week, selling drinks, popcorn and fidget toys and making £25 profit 👏
⭐ A truly fantastic week at Birch Wood … See MoreSee Less
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💛PMLD Awareness Day – Birch Wood’s Big ‘Glow Up’💛
On Wednesday 6th May, we will be celebrating PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities) Awareness Day with ‘Birch Wood’s Big Glow Up’!
We invite staff and students at Grange Drive to come to school dressed in their brightest and most colourful clothing, ready for a day filled with immersive, multi‑sensory fun and celebration 🌈✨
Alongside the celebrations, we will also be taking time to reflect on how our local community could have its own ‘glow up’, by becoming more inclusive and ensuring equitable access for people with PMLD and their families.
Following on from our Changing Places petition two years ago, we are once again calling attention to the continued need for a Changing Places toilet in Melton Town. We would very much welcome an update from Melton Borough Council on the progress of the long‑awaited installation.
PMLD Awareness Day is about visibility, voice and action. Together we can ensure a bright future for everyone! 💛 … See MoreSee Less
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📚Once Upon a Thursday at Birch Wood
Today we’re celebrating reading in all its wonderful forms across our whole school. From sharing stories together, exploring books through play and conversation, spotting symbols and signs, listening to familiar texts, to building early phonics and developing confident, independent readers – reading at Birch Wood looks different for every child, and that’s exactly how it should be 💛
A love of reading is a golden thread woven throughout all our curriculum pathways. Wherever a child is on their learning journey, reading is there to support communication, curiosity, imagination and connection. It opens doors, builds confidence and helps our pupils make sense of the world around them.
Because reading isn’t just about books – it’s about stories, voices, visuals, shared moments and meaning. And when children feel safe, supported and inspired, their love of reading can truly grow 🌱 … See MoreSee Less
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🩵 Wellbeing Wednesday
Sensory Circuits at Home
At school, many of our pupils use Sensory Circuits to help their bodies and brains feel ready, regulated and supported. These can be just as effective at home and can fit naturally into daily routines.
🌈 How Sensory Circuits work
Sensory Circuits follow a specific order to support regulation of the nervous system:
1: Alerting activities
2:Organising activities
3:Calming activities
This order is important. Each stage prepares the body for the next.
– Spend around 10 minutes on each stage
– Not every child needs alerting activities: if your child is already very alert, you can begin with organising, then move to calming.
🌙 At bedtime
Having sensory Circuits as part of your bedtime routine can support regulation and help the body slow down, making sleep more achievable.
✨ In the morning
Sensory circuits can help children feel ready to start the day. … See MoreSee Less
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