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.

Please note that this November course on Mondays will run for three consecutive weeks for Sessions 1,2 & 3 (November 4th,11th & 18th) and Session 4 will take place on Monday 2nd December. This break of one week is due to our Nurture Conference taking place on Monday 25th November. Full details of the conference, and bookings for the conference, will be available on our website this week.