Welcome to Springfield House School.
An introduction to Springfield House School
Springfield House is a Birmingham LA special school.
Our provision is targeted to meet the special educational needs of young people, aged 5 -11, who experience social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
In previous settings our pupils have exhibited behaviours that challenge, which are frequently associated with a wide range of complex conditions, including ASC, ADHD and Attachment Disorder. They have also experienced significant disruption to their education due to multiple school moves, fixed term and permanent exclusions and long periods of part-time or no placement in a school.
We provide a nurturing environment, where we support children to develop strategies to manage their responses appropriately. We seek to celebrate successes and achievements to build self-confidence and esteem, whilst allowing space and time to reflect on the issues that prevent their full social inclusion.
We use our PROUD roots at Springfield House School to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. These roots are:
Positive (I know my steps and where I am going)
Resilient (When things don’t go to plan I will repair and put it right)
Open Minded (I am ready to learn from others and share my ideas)
Understanding (Good choices leads to more choices) Diverse (All different, all equal, all welcome)
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Mini Marathon in Schools Challenge
We are excited to be joining in with the national Mini Marathon in Schools challenge! This is an annual event organised every spring by the London Marathon team. This year they are working closely with the Daily Mile Foundation and the Worldwide Fund for Nature, who all recognise that it is great for children's wellbeing to be active and outdoors in nature.
Here is everything you need to know about the Mini Marathon in Schools:
What: The challenge is to run, jog, walk, cycle, scooter, be guided or move in any other way for two miles at school.
When: The first week back after Easter - from Mon 28th April to Fri 2nd May.
Who: 400,000+ schoolchildren of all ages and abilities - including the pupils of Springfield House School.
Why: Exercise, especially out in nature, is a fantastic way to support physical and mental health, and there is lots of evidence to suggest that children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs will especially benefit from taking part in exercise outside. Each child who takes part in the Mini Marathon will receive a certificate and the school will be awarded a special trophy.
We are really looking forward to getting out into our beautiful school grounds to do our best in the challenge, during lunch breaks, play time, PE, orienteering lessons and MAGIC Enrichment sessions. The children have been working hard planning a route around the school site and measuring the distance they will need to travel. Wish us all luck as we get our running shoes on to complete the Mini Marathon!"
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Congratulations to Ash class on achieving their Bronze Wild Challenge award from the RSPB!
Over the spring term, in their MAGIC Enrichment weekly sessions, the children of Ash class have been out and about in the school grounds completing lots of useful projects in order to help nature. They have uploaded evidence of their activities onto the Wild Challenge website and the RSPB wrote to us in recognition of all their hard work.
"Thank you for your amazing efforts. Every action you take makes a real difference. "
In addition to our Wild Challenge certificate, we have also been awarded a prestigious Schools For Nature certificate, signed by Sir David Attenborough! This comes jointly from the RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the Woodland Trust who are working together to highlight all the schools that have taken action to protect and restore nature.
Now that we are officially a School for Nature, we are going to continue with our efforts to learn through nature and to look after the natural world in our school grounds and beyond. Once again, well done to Ash class for their incredible efforts so far and we look forward to the next stage of the children's Wild Challenge journey!
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Springfield Bake Off.
On Thursday 20th March, we celebrated Red Nose Day in support of Comic Relief. To mark the charities’ 40th Birthday, we took part in our very own ‘Springfield Bake Off’, judged by our very own Paul ‘Hollywood’ Yeomans and Helen ‘Berry’ Hayward!
The quality of the deserts made by each class was outstanding! We want to congratulate all of the children for their creativity and hard work. Thank you to everyone that donated, we raised over £50.
Update on monies raised - We are so grateful for your generosity in support of Comic Relief this year. It would be great to boost our total even further. We have set up a Springfield House Just Giving page for Comic Relief which several parents/carers and staff members have already taken the opportunity to use. The link to the page is as follows:
One advantage of using the Just Giving method is that if you are a tax payer you can tick the Gift Aid box and the Chancellor will then add in extra money to your donation, at no cost to yourself.
Once again, on behalf of our school community, thank you for all your support for this fantastic charity!
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Thank you to the volunteers from Jaguar Land Rover.
Hannah, Stuart and Lisa spent Friday putting up our Christmas tree and decorating 'The Stables' in preparation for our Christmas celebrations at Springfield. Thank you very much for volunteering your time.
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Lichfield Christmas Tree Festival.
Kace, Lexi and Melody decorated our Christmas Tree at Lichfield Cathedral on Friday 29th November. Every child decorated their own wooden bauble which are now all proudly hanging on our tree. Our theme this year is 'All Different, All Equal.'
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Remembrance Assembly 8th November 2024.
Thank you to Garry and Horace for attending our remembrance assembly on Friday. We remembered the bravery and contributions of those service men and women who have fought in wars, from World War 1, to wars that are happening in countries across the world today, as well as appreciate the peace and freedom we enjoy today because of their bravery and sacrifices.
We learnt how the British army in both World Wars were made up of lots of different countries from all around the world. Britain's colonies sent over two and a half million men to fight for Britain during the war. India sent the most soldiers. At that time, India included both Pakistan and Bangladesh. British Colonies sent soldiers from five different continents: Europe, North America, Australasia, Asia and Africa.
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Red Nose Day 2024
We would like to say a great big thank you to all our children and their families for helping to make Red Nose Day such a success.
This year we sold our entire supply of red noses and had lots of non-uniform donations as well which enabled us to raise an incredible £187 for Comic Relief - a brilliant total for a school of our size!
After paying the money in at the bank we received an email from one of the Red Nose Day Team at Comic Relief which says it all:
"I cannot thank you and your incredible pupils enough for all your hard work this Red Nose Day - you really have changed lives for the better ⭐ ...Red Nose Day is nothing without brilliant schools like yours, you truly make all the difference. Thank you."
Red Nose Day is a wonderful opportunity to encourage our pupils to share with others, and celebrating the day each year is an important part of children's personal development as they mature and become aware that they can make a positive contribution to the world around them. Being generous is one of the Five Ways to Wellbeing, so taking part in events like Red Nose Day is great for children's mental health as well.
Thank you for working in partnership with us in support of Red Nose Day and for helping Comic Relief to change children's lives, both here in the UK and around the world.
Well done everyone, and once again, thank you!
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World Book Day 2024
We celebrated World Book day with a whole school assembly and lots of activities throughout the day.
Below is a short video of our school for new pupils to watch.
Please click on the video below.
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