Discover what really drives low-level behaviour in classrooms and how to prevent it before it starts. We'll help staff build strong routines and positive practices that keep lessons running smoothly, reduce disruption and create a calmer learning environment.
Why schools in the Midlands choose Beacon
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We're in your corner when it counts
When parents or the local authority apply pressure, we're by your side. Expect honest advice, expert SEMH guidance, and a critical friend who validates your approach during tough conversations, not just when it's easy.
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Impact that lasts long beyond our visit
We combine face-to-face support with online training and AI tools your staff can access anytime - equipping them with clear strategies and the confidence to keep making progress long after we've gone.
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Actionable strategy, not just theory or good intentions
We keep support practical. From in-school guidance and coaching to realistic strategies for everyday classrooms, everything we share is built to work in the real world.
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Flexible support based on your priorities
We listen carefully to your school's goals and challenges - and then build flexible support around them, so you and your team move forward with clarity and confidence.
What it's like to work with us
Beacon has supported over 160 schools with SEMH and behaviour - but what does that actually look like in practice?
In this short video, co-founder Emma Shackleton explains how we work in partnership with leaders, staff and parents to deliver lasting impact.
Every school is different, so we always start by listening. Our support is built around your needs, your goals and your budget - never a one-size-fits-all package.
Just professional, practical support that gets results.
Where we work
Beacon is based in the Midlands, and we regularly support over 150 schools across Birmingham and the surrounding areas - including Coventry, Walsall, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Burton-on-Trent, Stratford-upon-Avon, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Dudley, Nuneaton and beyond.
Not sure if we'd come out to you?
Book a call and tell us about your school. For higher levels of support, we may be able to accommodate schools outside our usual travel area.
Training That Transforms Daily Practice
Strong, consistent classroom practice doesn't happen by accident - it comes from giving staff the right strategies and confidence. That's where our training makes the difference.
Every session we deliver is evidence-based, trauma-informed, and rooted in the “why” behind behaviour - but we always translate theory into clear, step-by-step techniques staff can use straight away. Our workshops are practical, interactive, and tailored to the challenges your team is facing right now, whether that's supporting pupils with SEMH needs, managing dysregulation, or creating calmer classrooms.
The result? Training that sticks - so your staff walk away with strategies they'll actually use, and your school sees the impact in corridors, classrooms and playgrounds.
That's why schools keep coming back to us - and why, every year, we train thousands of teachers in the Midlands area.
Here are our 10 of most popular training sessions:
How To Minimise Low-Level Disruption
How To Support Pupils Affected By Trauma And ACEs
Explore how trauma and adverse childhood experiences shape emotions and behaviour. Staff will gain a clear understanding of the psychology behind trauma and learn effective responses that help pupils feel safe, supported, and ready to learn.
How To Support Pupils With ADHD
Understand what drives impulsivity, hyperactivity, strong emotions, and focus challenges - and how to manage them effectively. Staff will leave with clear, practical strategies to reduce disruption, build on strengths, and help pupils with ADHD thrive in the classroom.
How To De-escalate
Learn to spot the hidden warning signs of dysregulation and understand the anger cycle before behaviour boils over. We'll share practical, step-by-step 'firebreak' strategies that staff can use in the moment to calm situations safely and keep learning on track.
How To Support Pupils With Anxiety
This session unpacks the roots of anxiety and how it shows up in school life. Then it gives staff clear, evidence-based strategies to reduce stress, build trust and help pupils feel safe enough to learn and engage in school life with confidence.
Restorative Conversations That Change Behaviour
Restorative practice doesn't have to be complicated. We strip away the jargon and give staff a simple, practical approach that fits real classrooms and busy timetables - while still delivering the powerful benefits of repair, respect and stronger relationships.
How To Coach Children Through Strong Emotions
When pupils can't regulate, learning stops. This training gives staff a clear framework for responding to big emotions in the moment, while teaching long-term skills for self-regulation. The result? Calmer classrooms, more resilient pupils, and staff who feel equipped rather than overwhelmed.
How To Support Pupils With PDA
Pathological Demand Avoidance can feel like constant confrontation — but it doesn't have to. This session unpacks the drivers behind PDA, shows staff how to reduce conflict, and offers practical strategies that build trust, lower anxiety, and open the door to genuine student engagement.
How To Manage Challenging Conversations With Parents
Some parents come into school heightened, confrontational or defensive — but often there's more going on beneath the surface. This training helps staff understand those drivers and equips them with a clear framework for handling those situations confidently and effectively, so difficult meetings feel less threatening and more productive.
Positive Behaviour Management For Lunchtime Supervisors
Unstructured times can make or break the school day. Our workshops equip lunchtime staff with practical strategies they can use straight away, and the chance to practise them as we explore realistic scenarios. The result? More confident supervisors and calmer, safer lunchtimes for everyone.
Want something different?
This is just a sample of the training we have on offer to support SEMH and behaviour in schools - for example, we deliver leadership sessions focused on creating a culture of inclusion, and parent workshops on topics like autism, ADHD, anxiety and more.
And, if your school requires something bespoke, to your specific priorities right now, we're always ready to help.
Want to talk over your school's training and development needs?
How Midlands schools rate our support
“We get high-quality advice about SEMH.”
“My SEMH support worker is easy to get hold of.”
“My support worker has good availability for appointments.”
Our quality assurance ratings, taken directly from schools we support.
Bespoke Support in Action
No two schools face the same challenges - and that's why our support is never one-size-fits-all. We start by listening carefully to your priorities, then design tailored support that fits your context, your goals, and your budget.
That might look like:
- Coaching a teacher with a 'difficult' class - and seeing them rebuild confidence, routines, and relationships within weeks.
- Observing pupils with complex SEMH needs and providing clear strategies that helped staff move from firefighting to understanding what drives behaviour.
- Working with leadership teams to refine behaviour or SEMH policy so it's practical, consistent, and backed by staff - not just paper.
- Running parent workshops so families feel supported and students come into school calmer, happier, and ready to learn.
- Completing SEMH health checks so leaders can keep their fingers on the pulse with SEMH in their schools (and have strategies to move things forward)
Whatever the need, our bespoke approach gives your staff the clarity and confidence to make change happen - and gives your pupils the best chance to thrive.
Who'll Be Supporting You
We're a small team with big experience - and we're more than consultants. We're teachers, leaders and practitioners who've walked in your shoes and faced the same challenges you're tackling right now.
That means we bring real-world understanding to every piece of advice and support we offer.
You can be confident you're working with people who genuinely get it - and who know how to turn SEMH challenges into positive, practical outcomes for your school.
Ben Waterworth
Ben leads the in-school support team at Beacon, overseeing and quality assuring all our support. He's an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of effectively supporting schools to understand and manage complex SEMH needs. He's driven by a passion for building inclusive, supportive school environments, where every student is given the opportunity to thrive and succeed.
Amelia Webley
Amelia is an experienced SEMH consultant who has supported more than 50 schools, with particular expertise in designing and delivering training. A former outstanding mainstream teacher and Senior Mental Health Lead, she focuses on building positive learning environments where teachers confidently meet student needs - and where pupils are able to succeed and meet high expectations.
Remi Walker
Remi is an experienced leader with a background in complex trauma, youth justice, and school inclusion. She specialises in helping leaders develop whole-school approaches to understanding and managing SEMH needs, with a focus on reducing exclusion and improving outcomes for all learners. She's committed to supporting staff to create inclusive environments where both pupils and professionals can achieve their potential.
Joe Staines
Joe has over 15 years of experience in primary education, including more than a decade in senior leadership. He’s passionate about helping schools build inclusive, positive cultures, drawing on his deep understanding of child development. Specialising in Early Years and KS1, Joe provides training and coaching in evidence-based approaches that enable every child to flourish.
Stacey Walsh
Stacey is an experienced educational consultant with a background in secondary senior leadership including behaviour, safeguarding, attendance and wellbeing. She understands the pressures schools face and - by focusing on strengthening behaviour systems and building staff confidence - she works in partnership with school leaders to support wellbeing and positive behaviour across the school.
Get the Full Picture
Want to explore all the ways we can support your school? Our in-school support brochure pulls everything together in one place - from whole-school audits and staff training to lunchtime improvements and parent workshops.
Our in-school support brochure pulls everything together in one place - from whole-school audits and staff training, to lunchtime improvements and parent workshops.
Download your copy today and see how we can help you strengthen behaviour, boost staff confidence and create the conditions for every child to thrive.
Pricing
With Beacon, there are no hidden extras, no surprises — just fair pricing for high-quality SEMH support that makes a real difference.
Flexible consultancy hours
Why pay for set packages you don't need? With Beacon, you simply buy the hours that work for your school - and use them however you choose.
These hours can be used for classroom observations, meetings, guide-by-the-side coaching, ECT support, or any other bespoke work - they're entirely flexible.
Better still, the more hours you purchase, the more cost-effective they become.
Over 19 hours
£160
Up to 19 hours
£175ph
Up to 10 hours
£185ph
Up to 5 hours
£205ph
Training
1-hour training session
£370
Half-day training
£529
Full-day training
£929
Behaviour and SEMH audits
Primary schools
£1199
Secondary schools
£2169
Lunchtime audit
£599
All prices exclude VAT.
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What People Are Saying About Beacon School Support
"25 years into my teaching career and now a DHT and SENDCo, I rarely get excited by resources, but I genuinely can't wait to read more of this information and use it to train my staff and support my families. So, so impressed with the balance of the 'need to know' psychology with practical and realistic strategies."
Lakey Lane Primary School
For Behaviour 360
"I learned very helpful strategies for helping children with ADHD. [This training] was very enlightening and will enable you to understand ADHD and to be able to adapt your teaching strategies to help [your pupils with ADHD] to learn in the classroom."
St Paul's RC Primary
J. Clarke
"[ADHD Mastery was] really useful as it gave strategies rather than just the science behind the disorder which is what other training usually focuses on. It engaged our staff very well and they are a tough audience in all honesty! They said that they much preferred it to having a guest speaker in."
Kingsland Primary School
For ADHD Mastery
"The videos are short, sharp and straight to the point... and 100% relevant to our supervisors. Even our teachers and TAs would find it useful. The supervisors really like the certificates and posters and some of them have even been using it at home!"
Paget Primary School
For Successful Supervisors
"Post-pandemic, we've seen more severe behaviours and needed to change our behaviour policy to something more restorative and less punitive. Now my staff are better equipped to de-escalate pupils with strategies and scripts... and realise they are not alone in facing these behaviours."
St. Laurence Church Junior School
A. Murphy
"I would whole-heartedly recommend working with Beacon. Emma has tailored our support and now we can move forward with a clear approach towards behaviour - also using the wealth of online resources to support us on this journey."
Lyndon Green Junior School
"Beacon are very knowledgeable and have an abundance of experience to share. [My anxiety training] was informative, interesting and useful - and I now feel confident addressing school-induced anxiety using the techniques taught."
Topcliffe Primary Primary
B. Warr
"I have learnt so much that will improve my practice on your assertive behaviour management training... [including] lots of ways to approach difficult or challenging situations. This was so helpful and a massive eye opener."
The Revel C of E (VA) Primary School
N. Darcy
"We were stuck and didn't know what else could be done to improve behaviour, especially for a small number of individuals... Emma gave us really clear ideas and direction. Now those students are better at managing their emotions [and] have fewer incidents on the playground. Beacon go above and beyond. Excellent service."
Oasis Academy Boulton
"I just want to say thank you. [Successful Supervisors] has been transformative in our school. Our midday supervisors are so much more positive and the whole team absolutely love it. It's worked for everybody and it's so simple. We love the drip feed of it."
Manor Junior School
For Successful Supervisors
"Family First has been transformational for our parents. It has improved parents' wellbeing and their relationships with their children, and has had a huge impact on children's behaviour both at home and in school. A huge success!"
Lyndon Green Infant School
For Family First
"Our behaviour audit was tailor made for our school and was efficient, practical and painless. It proved that behaviour in our school was good and captured stakeholder feedback objectively."
Court Farm Primary
For their on-site behaviour audit
"Just watched Video 5 on The Power Of Limited Choices. It's great to see these strategies building - I love the extra little tips in the emails too. They've really changed how I deal with [my son]. It feels like we're building a little toolbox of strategies to pick out when we come up against a situation!"
Donna, a parent
For Family First
"The process Simon gave us for running behaviour interventions has been transformative in our school. Now our intervention programmes are specific to our pupils' individual needs - and we have a way of evidencing how effective they were."
Colmers Secondary School
"One of our pupils couldn't get into class, was dysregulated and couldn't cope with the demands of school. After your support, and using your strategies, he is now calmer, functioning well in the main classroom, and finally making progress. His behaviour has completely changed."
Bronwhills West
J. McNamee
"I am a learning mentor supporting KS2 children and found the stepping stones [technique] really useful. I feel confident and excited to put these new anxiety support strategies into practice and look forward to using this with my SENCO."
Elms Farm Primary
J. Wilkinson
"Supervisors are now more proactive and interactive. They're now playing games with the children... because they understand this will improve their relationships with them."
St. John's Primary School
For Successful Supervisors
"My staff were struggling and overwhelmed to support a child who'd been excluded from her previous school. Simon came in quickly, gave them support and now they really understand what's causing her behaviour, have support strategies in place - and in just a few weeks, she's a happy and content child who is absolutely loving school. Her parents are amazed by her transformation. This is all due to the time and effort that Beacon Support have given to my school, my staff and most importantly, a little girl that was switched off from school."
The Shrubbery School
A. Lees
"I thought Amelia was exceptional. Her delivery was so engaging, so calm and so intelligent, I couldn't help but really be impressed by her aura. It really made me think about how I teach and speak to classes."
Bishop Walsh
T. Greenwood
"Beacon have absolutely cut through all the fog and stress we were having with extreme behaviour. We love their work is founded on research-based practice."
The Oaklands Primary
B. Grice
"One of our Year 1 children with significant ADHD needs was finding it difficult to sit and focus, follow school expectations or engage with his learning. Simon gave us a support programme to follow, and now, after just a few days, he's participating in lessons and his behaviour has significantly improved. He's happy to be getting Star of the Week this week, because he knows he genuinely deserves it."
Audley Primary
A. Williams
"I am the Principal of a new specialist school for children with ASD and or/ID in Melbourne. As our staff have diverse backgrounds and experience, we are always looking for presenters, programs and frameworks that reflect our purpose, values and approach to working with children. Your work is one of the few resources that I am confident sharing with our staff because it helps clarify, provoke and support our thinking without need for caveats."
Endeavour Hills Specialist School
S. Coull
For the School Behaviour Secrets podcast
"Our parent workshop with Ben was great. Parents were really happy with it and commented on how useful it was. Ben stayed behind to answer specific questions regarding the parents' individual concerns for their child. They really appreciated the time he spent with them and more importantly some of the suggestions he had."
Holy Souls Primary
D. Henvey
"The training Emma delivered on stress and de-escalation was fabulous! Teaches you loads to help manage behavioural problems."
Robin Hood Academy
"The low level disruption training we received from Beacon was realistic, grounded in real classroom practice, engaging and thought provoking."
Bournville Village Primary
H. Setchell
"You learn so much in Beacon training as well as reinforcing what you already know. Emma is real! Wealth of knowledge!'"
The Nethersole Primary School
A. Deakin
"We were having difficulty supporting a pupil with complex needs who repeatedly became dysregulated and disrupted learning. Simon supported us - and now, most importantly - we now have a firm plan in place for moving forward and meeting his needs."
Grange Community Primary
R. Cox
"In your de-escalation training, I learned the biology behind [pupils'] anger responses and strategies to de-escalate them. [This training] will transform your mindset on responding to serious behaviour incidents."
Pegasus Primary School
C. Pettifer
"Beacon have proven strategies that work - we've just started working with them and have already seen results that support all our stakeholders."
St. Wilfrid's Primary
J. Brown
"Emma delivered two exceptional parent workshops at our school helping parents to understand big emotions like anger and anxiety in their children. Both workshops were gratefully received by parents and were delivered in a clear, concise and friendly way. Many parents attended the workshops and found the information really useful as well as real life tips to support their children at home."
Mapledene Primary
G. Johnson
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