Beech Tree School
Opened in 1985 near Preston in Lancashire, Scope's Beech Tree School offers both education and care placements to young people from the age of 11. Young people are referred to Beech Tree because of the severity of their behavioural difficulties, which are a result of a learning disability. Many of the young people placed at Beech Tree are autistic.
“What always strikes me the most is that these children come to them with such extreme problems that no other school wants to deal with them. And yet at Beech Tree they really respect the children.”
Very much part of the local community, Beech Tree School is a pleasant, modern building set in its own grounds, which include specialist resources.
Pupils are encouraged to develop alternative, positive ways of behaving through a 24-hour-a-day programme of education and care designed for each young person.
Each child is given access to the National Curriculum according to their needs. Respect for the individual is at the centre of the school's culture, and pupils show positive and sometimes dramatic improvements in behaviour.
Beech Tree School supports inclusion that meets the needs of the individual. Access to local amenities and a community presence are at the core of the service.
Recent developments at the school include the opening of our short break service.
Please contact the school now if you would like to visit or reserve a place.
Download our leaflet [file size 1.2Mb].
Download our prospectus [file size 718k].
Download Michael's story [file size 52k].
To download Beech Tree's latest Ofsted report, go to http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/ (opens in a new window).
For information, email: beech.tree@scope.org.uk or contact:
Beech Tree School
Meadow Lane
Bamber Bridge
Preston
Lancashire
PR5 8LN
Tel: 01772 323 131
Fax: 01772 322 187
