Location: Near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Leicestershire
Include | Welby Grange has been purposefully designed as a therapeutic learning environment set in the peaceful Leicestershire countryside near Melton Mowbray. Our setting provides pupils who require a calmer, more responsive approach to education with extensive outdoor spaces, sensory gardens, and nature-based learning opportunities. The tranquil surroundings, structured routines, and sensory-aware classrooms create conditions that reduce anxiety, support emotional regulation, and increase readiness to learn.
At Welby Grange, pupils benefit from a personalised curriculum, targeted therapeutic interventions, and consistent pastoral support delivered by trained staff. The countryside setting is integral to our approach, with outdoor therapy, forest school activities, and garden-based learning embedded into daily practice. This enables learners to rebuild confidence, develop key social and emotional skills, and make sustained progress both academically and personally. The overall aim is to re-engage each young person with education, improve their wellbeing, and prepare them for successful transitions into future learning, employment, or training.
Creating foundations where learning flourishes.
Evidence-based trauma-informed practice establishes psychological safety as the cornerstone of educational progress. Our therapeutic environments enable dysregulated learners to achieve optimal states for cognitive engagement and academic achievement.
Consistent therapeutic connections that transform outcomes.
Attachment-informed practice ensures every learner experiences reliable, attuned relationships with specialist staff. These therapeutic alliances provide the emotional scaffolding necessary for sustainable educational progress and personal growth.
Sensory-responsive environments designed for diverse learning needs
Our learning spaces integrate occupational therapy principles, flexible seating arrangements, and sensory regulation tools. Each classroom adapts to individual processing styles, supporting executive function development and sustained attention.
Curriculum delivery matched to individual cognitive profiles
We design learning experiences around each child's neurological strengths, developmental readiness, and processing preferences. This strength-based approach ensures educational content remains accessible, meaningful, and appropriately challenging.
Therapeutic landscapes for regulation and discovery
Daily outdoor learning supports nervous system regulation whilst developing practical skills and environmental awareness. Nature-based activities enhance focus, reduce anxiety, and provide multisensory learning opportunities that complement classroom-based education.
At Include | Welby Grange, we understand that children can only learn when they feel safe, understood, and supported. Our therapeutic approach, enhanced by our tranquil countryside setting, is designed to meet each child exactly where they are, helping them rebuild trust in education and rediscover the joy of learning.
We work directly with local authorities and SEN teams to ensure a smooth referral process. Once we receive a referral, we review the pupil’s needs, arrange an initial assessment visit to our countryside setting, and aim to confirm placement as quickly as possible. We prioritise minimising time out of education.
We work with local authorities across a range of funding models, including EHCP-funded placements. We provide transparent costings and are happy to discuss individual arrangements to ensure the right provision for each learner.
Our team actively participates in annual reviews, providing detailed progress reports covering academic, social, emotional, and therapeutic outcomes. We work collaboratively with families and local authorities to ensure plans reflect each learner’s evolving needs.
Our educators hold qualified teacher status alongside specialist training in trauma-informed practice, therapeutic approaches, outdoor education, and inclusive pedagogy. Staff receive continuous professional development in evidence-based practice and SEND.
We track academic progress alongside social, emotional, and personal development. Regular reporting provides local authorities with clear evidence of impact, including attendance, engagement, wellbeing, and readiness for transition.
We offer comprehensive transition planning, including pre-placement visits to our school and grounds, individualised settling-in programmes, and close communication with families and referring professionals. When learners are ready to move on, we provide structured support into further education, training, or other settings.