Birch Wood School

Birch Wood School

15 hours ago

Tomorrow is PMLD Awareness Day! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
We can’t wait to see you all sparkle and shine! ✨✨✨Next Friday we will be celebrating PMLD Awareness Day! Our theme this year is ‘Shine a Light on Accessibility’. We hope to raise awareness of the need for better access within the wider community for our learners with profound and multiple learning disabilities. We invite staff and students to come to school on Friday 3rd May, wearing their brightest or even light up clothing/accessories. Together we will shine a light on the change that we want to see! … See MoreSee Less

Birch Wood School

16 hours ago

The Merlins and Mini Merlins will be collecting signatures on our paper petitions, but if you’re not at Birch Wood tomorrow you can still sign the petition following the link below: … See MoreSee Less

Birch Wood School

18 hours ago

Tomorrow is PMLD Awareness Day and our theme this year is ‘Shine a Light on Accessibility!’. We want to expand this day beyond our school community and ensure that we are promoting awareness on a much larger scale. This year we are specifically focusing on toileting and changing facilities for people with PMLD.

Over the past few years there has been much campaigning for Changing Places to be installed in venues and towns across the UK. A Changing Place is a specialist changing area, large enough for wheelchair access with a full-sized changing bed and a hoist.

Whilst there are fabulous Changing Places facilities in place at Melton Museum and the Melton Mencap Centre, access to these is limited to their opening hours and there is no access to any Changing Place facilities in Melton on a Sunday.

❗No one should ever have to suffer the indignity of
being changed on a toilet floor.
❗Parents and carers should not have to risk their
physical health because they do not have access to
a hoist.
❗No one should have to sit in their own bodily fluids
for prolonged periods of time because there are no
facilities available.
❗No one should have to cut short their time in the
community due to a lack of toileting facilities.

Tomorrow we will be working our way around school, asking parents/carers, staff and students to sign a petition for a Changing Places toilet to be installed in Melton town, so our pupils and their families can fully access the town and participate in events, such as the Christmas light switch on and the 40’s weekend. We want access for our families at all time of the day, seven days a week!

If you aren’t able to sign the paper copy of this petition tomorrow, you can still join us by following the link to the virtual petition:

chng.it/C2X9QyvnnK

Together we can make our community a more inclusive and accessible place! … See MoreSee Less

Birch Wood School

3 days ago

At Birch Wood we are really passionate about sharing best practice. This time last week we were joined by school leaders Oliver & Joe from the Renad school in Qatar, who wanted to learn about how we support our young people with Autism as part of their journey towards getting their National Autistic Society (NAS) accreditation. Renad School will be first of its kind in Qatar and are working closely with us and the NAS to do their very best for pupils in Doha at Renad. 🙌It’s fantastic to know we are helping to make the positive difference internationally in partnership with the NAS.🙌 Birch Wood received their advanced accreditation from the NAS in 2022 and we are currently applying for our Beacon status! ⭐️
@nationalautisticsociety @birchwoodspecialschool
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