Welcome To Our School

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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Birch Wood School
12 hours ago

AI and Our Young People: A Conversation for Parents and Carers

We are delighted to invite parents, carers and family members to join us for a free, practical session exploring what artificial intelligence (AI) may mean for our young people, both now and in the future. This non-technical session will look at the opportunities, challenges and important considerations around AI, including inclusion, everyday life, safety, privacy and responsible use.

Led by Adebowale Owoseni, PhD, an AI and Digital Transformation professional and parent of a young person at Birch Wood School, alongside Jo Stone, PedTech Lead for Discovery Trust, and Phil Leaney, Executive Headteacher of Birch Wood School, the session will include practical examples, a live demonstration and plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.

📅 Friday 6 November 2026
📍 In person: 9:30am-10:30am at Birch Wood School, Melton Mowbray
💻 Online: 4:00pm-5:00pm via Microsoft Teams
No technical knowledge is needed. Whether you're curious, excited, cautious or simply interested in learning more, we'd love you to join the conversation.
✅ To reserve your place, please complete the Microsoft Forms registration link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=7cXzqZdY-kCCZ246vAAaNEuqT562QN1Hl5YAVxANym1UN0xX… …

AI and Our Young Peo
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Birch Wood School
7 days ago

The Fine Art GCSE art class took a trip to Leicester to visit the art studios at DMU in the Art Factory, looking at the studio spaces students use and their artwork created.

They visited the Zandra Rhodes textile exhibition on campus before making their way for lunch then viewing the latest exhibition all about dogs at New Walk.

Credit to the star pupil who took all these photographs on the trip. …

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Birch Wood School
1 week ago

📢 Reminder: Join us at our Transition Evening, taking place alongside Parents' Evening on Thursday 15 October.

A great opportunity for Year 9+ students and their families to explore post-16 options, meet local providers, and start thinking about future pathways.

We hope to see you there! 🌟

#PreparationForTheFuture #BirchWoodSchool …

📢 Reminder: Join
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Birch Wood School
1 week ago

🌟 Falcons Work Experience Update 🌟

Our Falcons students have been busy developing their employability and community skills this week through a range of exciting work experience opportunities!

A group of students returned to Helping Hands, Grantham, where they took part in sorting, pricing and packaging books ready for sale. Students worked hard to follow instructions, stay organised and contribute to the day-to-day running of the shop.

Meanwhile, another group visited Melton Mowbray, exploring the local community and speaking confidently with independent businesses to request donations for the raffle prizes at our upcoming Melton Market Stockyard stall on Tuesday. This provided fantastic opportunities to develop communication skills, build confidence when speaking to members of the public, and represent Birch Wood School in a positive and professional manner.

We are incredibly proud of how our students continue to grow in confidence whilst gaining valuable real-life experiences that support their preparation for adulthood.
Well done, Falcons! 🦅👏 …

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What Our Parents Say…

“Keep up the good work, excellent school.”

“The teachers are an asset to my son and others, thank you.”

“I am extremely happy with the progress my daughter is making – she has come on in leaps and bounds. I feel Birch Wood Vale is tailor made for her needs.”

“Keep up the good work, excellent school.”

“The teachers are an asset to my son and others, thank you.”

“I am extremely happy with the progress my daughter is making – she has come on in leaps and bounds. I feel Birch Wood Vale is tailor made for her needs.”

“I am so happy with how my son has progressed in the school setting over a short period of time. A big ‘thank you’ for everyone’s help and especially for their exceptional support. I know that he will blossom throughout the school setting. Thanks again!”

“The primary school said under no circumstances could he go back after Christmas. Sending him to Birch Wood is the best thing I ever did, I couldn’t be more pleased. He is calmer, telling me about things he enjoys at school. Everybody has noticed such a big change in him, all of my family appreciate everything you are doing, it has changed our lives.”

“My son is really happy, he’s started playing again and back to the old child. Everything is really positive and he is much happier when he comes home. The unit has been really positive for him”

“I am happy with the new assessment and tracking system. My son seems very happy at school and appears to be making good progress. The teachers seemed very knowledgeable about my son’s abilities and when to push him. I would like to comment on his next IEP before it is finalised.”

“The provision has been outstanding in every way and the staff are brilliant with strategies to ensure progress is made in all areas of my son’s school life. We couldn’t ask for anything more!”

“I was very impressed with how positive ad enthusiastic all staff were tonight (as always). Especially impressed with all the efficient, colour coded information on my sons progress and it’s equivalent grade in GCSE.”