Bright Education
Awaken Potential
Our singular vision is to support students to ‘awaken their potential’, through great quality of education.
We achieve this by placing a clear focus on three key areas:
1 Our Great Education Offer
2 In Our Schools
3 Through Impact and Enrichment
Our purpose is to enrich our community, in terms of:
Our Staff
Our Students
Our Families
Our Local Area
Our Staff
Our Families
Our Students
Our Local Area
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Awakening Potential With Our Great Education Offer
We are truly committed to delivering a broad and holistic curriculum that caters to students with a variety of needs, including autism, communication and sensory needs, and specific learning difficulties.
Progress and attainment data is collected and continuously evaluated using a range of techniques and technologies to evidence learning, assess, adjust learning plans, and set new goals.
Learning outcomes span academic, well-being, personal development, and vocational.
Moment-to-moment interactions between staff and student enhance belonging and connection, autonomy and control, gifts and talents, speaking and listening skills and sense of self.
Awakening Potential With Our Great Education Offer
We are truly committed to delivering a broad and holistic curriculum that caters to students with a variety of needs, including autism, communication and sensory needs, and specific learning difficulties.
Progress and attainment data is collected and continuously evaluated using a range of techniques and technologies to evidence learning, assess, adjust learning plans, and set new goals.
Learning outcomes span academic, well-being, personal development, and vocational.
Moment-to-moment interactions between staff and student enhance belonging and connection, autonomy and control, gifts and talents, speaking and listening skills and sense of self.
About Our Schools
We currently have two independent special schools, Ash Meadow School and Willow Tree Park School. We also have a college that aims to be sector leading, and forward thinking, for the benefit of our students. Our day schools provide education for children and young people aged 4-25 years with autism, many of whom have additional learning difficulties and behaviours of concern. Our students may live in our care homes or with their families. All of our students have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Our comprehensive education programme addresses, in full, all recommendations and outcomes set out in their individual plan. Our current schools are located in Lymm, Cheshire and St Helens. We pride ourselves on creating close and transparent relationships with family members and placing authorities.
Willow Tree Park School
Our specialist education school at Willow Tree Park is set within the picturesque village of Lymm in Cheshire.
Ash Meadow
School
Our specialist education provision at Ash Meadow School is located adjacent to The Dream in Sutton Manor, St Helens.
Awakening Potential Through Impact & Enrichment
Our aim is to improve the life chances of our students through education and learning. Thereby increasing their quality of life, and that of their families and others around them. We believe in enriching our community by getting involved and forging links with local businesses. Two examples of this are the growing and selling of produce from the Bright Futures Lymm allotments and the establishment our very own community café. By supporting our students, their families, and our community, we are working hard to deliver a curriculum that has social impact, and benefits both the community and our students.
How Do We Do This?
Our multi-disciplinary education team are highly trained. They use evidence-based approaches to plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate a meaningful, relevant and ambitious personalised curriculum, for each and every student.
The Bright Futures specialist Positive Behaviour Support team work alongside our education colleagues to design and develop personalised support plans that teach students more socially acceptable and safe behaviour, whilst also celebrating their positives. Bespoke transitional support is provided at the start and end of each school placement.
This is what makes the Bright Education Offer so unique:
We have highly trained staff teams
We are ambitious and have a broad curriculum.
We personalise each student’s learning plan.
We have a track record of success.
We used evidence-based approaches.
We provide the highest quality resources and create capable environments.
We place equal value on pastoral and teaching support.
We are autism specialists.
We have strong relationships with authorities and families.
We provide bespoke and well supported transition plans.
Specialist Support & Therapies
Our Specialist Support Team alongside our care homes and schools providing extra expertise when required. This can be helpful in many ways for example, when people are joining or leaving one of our settings, when they are having a difficult time, or when the staff team need extra help.
Our Specialist Support Team offer a range of input around:
Positive Behaviour Support
Person Centred Planning (including our STRIVE Programme for adults)
Therapies – Speech and Language and Occupational Therapy
Autism
Active Support
Advice and signposting around specific needs e.g., trauma informed care, attachment difficulties, mental ill-heath.
Our Specialist Support Team coordinates therapeutic and pastoral work, and the wider multi-disciplinary team when required. The Specialist Support Team Manager is responsible for ensuring that the team provides excellent support and advice to our care homes and education settings.
We also work in partnership with other healthcare professionals. We are committed to ensuring our teams are trained to excellent standards and have the skills and knowledge to support people with complex needs. Working in partnership with organisations such as Shine Therapy and Redstone PBS enables us to fulfil this commitment. This is one of the many reasons that we are a safe pair of hands when supporting people with complex needs, learning disabilities and autism.
