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Strength in every branch. Growth in every child.
Safe, nurturing education for every learner
About Us
Branches Education Group is a growing family of specialist SEN schools across Lancashire and Yorkshire, supporting children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Each of our schools has its own identity, community and strengths, while sharing the same commitment to compassionate care, personalised learning and meaningful progress.
We believe that every child deserves to feel safe, understood and supported in a way that works for them. Through calm environments, skilled staff, strong partnerships and a child-centred approach, we help pupils build confidence, resilience and self-belief, giving them the foundations they need to grow academically, socially and emotionally.
Our Ethos & Values
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value each pupil equally as individuals
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Embrace difference
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Have high aspirations and expectations of staff and pupils
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Meet pupils’ needs and build on their strengths
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Harness creativity, skills and interests
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Identify support to manage and overcome barriers and difficulties
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Develop self-confidence, esteem, and resilience
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Engender integrity, courtesy, trust, care and respect in all aspects of school life
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Provide a safe and welcoming environment
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Be valued members of our local community
Why Choose Us?
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Personalised Learning
To deliver a flexible and individualised curriculum that meets the educational, vocational, and therapeutic needs of each pupil.
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Vocational Excellence
To provide meaningful, hands-on learning experiences that develop practical skills and prepare pupils for future pathways in work or further training.
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Holistic Development
To support the emotional, social, and behavioural development of every pupil through high-quality pastoral care and access to specialist support.
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Inclusive Environment
To foster a safe, respectful, and inclusive culture where all pupils feel valued, listened to, and able to express themselves.
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Positive Futures
To raise aspirations and ensure each pupil is supported to make informed, realistic, and ambitious choices about their future education and employment.
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Individual Encouragement
We believe in empowering our students to overcome challenges, adapt to change, and flourish in their own unique ways.
A Message from Our CEO
As Chief Executive Officer, I am delighted to welcome you to Branches Education Group; a nurturing and inspiring environment where children can thrive academically, socially, and personally.
Our school does not offer a 'one size fits all' solution. Instead, we provide a bespoke package tailored to meet the individual needs of each pupil. We work alongside our pupils, parents and professionals to equip both students and staff with the tools, skills, and knowledge they need to be their very best. My personal aim is to create learning communities where every individual is supported to achieve their full potential, and personal successes are celebrated.
As CEO, I am incredibly proud to lead such an innovative, passionate, and caring family of schools. I warmly welcome everyone to visit and experience first hand the wonderful learning opportunities that our pupils get to experience every day.
Our commitment to excellence, collaboration, and personalised support is evident in everything we do, and I am confident that you will see the positive impact of our efforts on the pupils, families, colleagues and our wider community.
New Beginning
Edward Smethurst- Proprietor
Ultimately, choosing the right school for a child will be a life changing decision. Ensuring it is a good decision is critical. We know that parents and carers want a high standard of education for their child to make good progress, in an environment where they can be happy and safe.
Prosperity Children’s Services are well known for supporting children and young people, with a range of needs and difficulties to be cared for and well supported in a range of different settings. We embrace our duty to support children to engage in education. Sourcing suitable schools or learning provision has been a huge challenge for us and for local authorities.
Our staff team is highly experienced, suitably qualified and trained. Ultimately, they recognise and embrace the challenges associated with supporting pupils who have experienced disrupted education, have gaps in learning and whose needs were not met previously. We make it our business to support our staff team, to ensure their own well-being, so they can work effectively and remain passionate about making the difference.
We know that good quality, relevant education is key to improving pupil progress, personal development, well-being, and overall life chances. Our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum, with some great additions, including careers for all, independence, and enterprise skills. Pupils in each Key Stage can pursue personalised, appropriate programmes of learning, including academic and vocational pathways.
Your decision to choose our school for your child will be supported by us throughout your child’s time at Silver Birch School. We will work closely with you as parents, carers, and local authorities to help ensure your decision was the right one
We work collaboratively with our therapy team, being part of the therapeutic web around the child. The enhances our trauma informed and trauma responsive approach, building a safe and secure environment for our children to be able to access learning. We incorporate principles from the PACE model (Hughes 1997), further enhancing our trauma informed and attachment building environment; promoting ‘connection before correction’ to enable our children to engage in situations with more tolerance. Also maintaining our child-centred focus (Rogers 1957), weaving in acceptance, congruence and a belief in each of our children to achieve to their full ability.
Please do contact us at any time, we look forward to meeting you.
