This course is an additional third course we have organised to cater for the demand for training in this half term. It will run over the following four Tuesday evenings: 17th & 24th September and 1st & 15th October 2024

This course is suitable for teachers, SNAs/ANAs, school leaders & other educators:

• Who wish to set up and run a nurture group/ nurture groups.
• Who wish to support students in engaging in learning and school life.
• Who wish to support students who need to ‘settle to learn’.
• Who wish to support 'at risk' students.
• Who want to adopt a more nurturing approach while working with students who have
  social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties, attachment difficulties, low self-confidence, low self-esteem, low resilience, high anxiety, self-regulation and/or self-expression difficulties.

Nurture Groups and Nurturing Schools - supporting all students to learn:

• The practicalities of setting up and running a nurture group – early years, primary and secondary
• Attachment theory and neuroscience and the practical applications in the classroom
• Child development and learning: the effects of missed early learning opportunities, loss, trauma and neglect on learning and behaviour
• Assessing students’ developmental difficulties, blocks to learning and devising practical strategies to support them.
• Developing the curriculum to promote students’ social, emotional and learning skills
• Developing a whole-school nurturing approach and promoting wellbeing
• Monitoring and evaluation through a research-proven, evidence-based, structured & planned approach.

Participants will attend 4 x 2-hour online sessions, with guided, self-directed learning between sessions.