Brantwood Garden School
Therapies at Brantwood Garden School
Ruskin Mill Trust’s Practical Skills Therapeutic Education method embeds our therapeutic approach to human development throughout our children and young people’s day and residential sessions and activities.
Brantwood also provides a more targeted therapeutic programme for our children and young people, in addition to our practical curriculum, through discrete therapy sessions and input from the therapy team into day and residential planning.
Integrated Therapeutic Support at Brantwood Garden School
At Brantwood Garden School, we recognise that many children and young people benefit from therapeutic input as part of their educational journey. In alignment with the Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) method developed by Ruskin Mill Trust, we offer a fully integrated, on-site therapeutic provision that supports each student’s emotional, social, and developmental needs.
Our therapeutic team works collaboratively with education staff and families to ensure that support is embedded across the curriculum and daily life. This approach enables students to build trusting and respectful relationships, regulate their emotions, and engage meaningfully in learning.
These therapies are delivered in a way that complements the land and craft curriculum, ensuring that therapeutic support is not isolated but woven into the fabric of school life. This holistic model allows students to experience consistency, safety, and relational depth across all aspects of their education.
Meaningful and successful living
At Brantwood Garden School, the team focuses on goals which are meaningful to each child or young person, their family and the team around the child or young person. Whatever their individual goals, we work together, with the children and young people, to help them achieve– with confidence and enjoyment.
Supporting Behaviour
Brantwood believes that understanding and supporting behaviour is the key to promoting safety, confidence and mutual respect.
Brantwood’s Behaviour Support team are dedicated to the analysis of, and insight into, a wide variety of behaviours. They use specialised assessment techniques to identify possible emotional and mental health problems, as well as the everyday traumas and triggers that may be contributing to distress and negative patterns of behaviour.
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Based on the results of the initial assessment, the teams devise a Behaviour Development Plan for each child or young person and then work together to implement, monitor and update this plan, in response to changing needs. The aims are to help each child or young person develop confidence, self-esteem and a sense of caring and respect for others, promoting co-operative relationships with peers and adults, and developing a range of social skills and effective coping strategies.
Many students with behavioural, emotional and social development needs often have to wait for the availability of therapeutic input from an already overstretched local CAMHS team. As part of the service available to students at Brantwood Specialist School, there is a developed, on-site therapeutic team that consists of:
Consultant Advisory Psychiatrist
Counselling Psychotherapist
Speech and Language therapy
Eurythmy (movement therapy)
Art therapy
Occupational Therapy with Sensory Integration
