Education

Nurture, develop and see our pupils flourish

We make up for lost ground by nurturing young people and building their self-esteem through relevant and stimulating holistic learning experiences. This is supported by child-centred therapeutic input to help young people regulate their emotions and feel safe.

Barriers to engagement are identified, in partnership with our psychology team, and approaches planned, implemented, and reviewed for pupils to ensure they are fully engaged in their own learning pathway. Moreover, we continually strive to:

• Create a calm and sensitive environment
• Be mindful of our own reactions
• Lean in and support
• ‘Connect’ before ‘correct’, get ‘curious’ and not ‘furious’
• Practice PACE
• Create a sense of structure and boundaries to help pupils feel safe
• Educate at the developmental age and not the chronological age
• Understand the negative and toxic impact that shame may have caused
• Focus on the effort and not the outcome, celebrating the small ‘bite-sized’ successes
• Actively listen, creating an inclusive environment

Members of our psychology team can conduct specialist assessments such as the SEDAL (Social, Emotional, Developmental Age Level) behavioural assessment scale to support the education team to understand individual educational needs.