Learning Trust Outreach Booklet
Positive Psychology
Looking at the language used when speaking to or directing young people. As part of our Behaviour Management Strategies Package we can offer individual pupil support and/or packages of support for teaching and support staff. Included in our behaviour strategies ‘tool box’ are twilight sessions at Portland School and Specialist College on:
- Managing the child on the Trauma Continuum
- Introduction to Attachment and Trauma – Attachment Awareness
- Introduction to Emotion Coaching
- Positive Psychology
- Behaviour Data Systems
- Choices maps/cycles
- Verbal escalation model
- Crisis developmental model
- RESPONSE model
- COPING model
Attachment Aware Schools Training
Looking at the impact of early childhood attachment and trauma and it's impact on development and resilience.
Emotion Coaching
Alternative strategies for supporting young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs to recognise emotions and their impact on behaviour and relationships.
Behaviour Management Strategies
Individual pupil support Once a referral has been received we will telephone the referring school to discuss the presenting difficulties and then arrange to visit school to carry out an observation. Following the observation a report will be written and shared with the school. A plan of support can then be written and implemented in school by the referring school’s staff. This plan will be reviewed and ‘tweaked’ as appropriate before evaluating the impact at the end of the academic year.
Packages of support
Once a referral has been received we will telephone the referring school to discuss the presenting difficulty and arrange to visit the school to meet with staff and discuss the referral in greater detail. We will then agree the specific support needed and write up a plan. The plan will outline the support we will be giving and may include visits to Portland School and Specialist College for staff to share good practise and to put everything into context. The package of support plan will be reviewed and ‘tweaked’ as necessary before evaluating the impact at the end of the academic year.
Observation of lessons with SEMH pupils
Mainstream school staff to share good practise by observing lessons with SEMH pupils.
Providing support on Teaching Assessment
Working in collaboration with mainstream schools on supporting the teaching and learning of children with SEMH.
Visits to Portland School to share good practise
Visits by mainstream school staff to Portland to share good practise and knowledge/rescources.
CPD
Opportunities for mainstream staff to attend staff training sessions and also to attend inset days at Portland School.
Outreach Manager
Helen Burgess
Helen.Burgess@portland.set.org