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 (in nurture rooms, nurture spaces, mainstream classes, SET settings) while working with students who have any, or all, of the following:
  social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties; attachment difficulties; low self-confidence; low self-esteem; low resilience; high anxiety/stress; school attendance challenges; self-regulation and/or self-expression difficulties; communication and/or relationship challenges.
• Who wish to adopt nurturing practices across the whole school.

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.

Participants will also be invited to further Check-in Sessions and Nurture Communities of Practice/Nurture Support Groups.

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026 Course - WEDNESDAYS

Session dates and times:

Wednesday 23rd September: 6.30 - 8.30pm

Wednesday 30th September - NO SESSION

Wednesday 7th October: 6.30 - 8.30pm

Wednesday 14th October: 6.30 - 8.30pm

Wednesday 21st  October: 6.30 - 8.30pm

Please note: There will be NO SESSION on Wednesday 30th September.