Understanding and supporting ADHD with practical strategies.

• Understanding ADHD as a diagnosis
• Understanding life from an ADHD child’s point of view
• What does ADHD look like in learners?
• What does it look like in the classroom?
• Behaviour management strategies for children with ADHD

A supportive audit with clear actions for all school staff.
On site Behaviour Audit (whole school/year group/time of day).

• Complete the audit materials
• All staff to complete relevant areas
• Results fed back to SLT
• SLT agree which areas will be a focus
• Focus area observed/investigated in further depth
• Action plan drawn up based on findings from audit

Training for adults supporting SEMH children.

• Understanding escalation cycles in children/adults
• Our responses as adults
• Body language/use of voice
• De-escalation techniques
• Individualised programs for children and how to support

A course for teaching assistants and teachers to improve social skills.

• Assessment to understand social skills in children
• Understanding poor social skills
• What does that look like in the classroom/playground/school?
• Managing poor social skills
• Small steps to longer-term outcomes
• Practical strategies in schools

A practical session on managing behaviour on the playground.

• Body language
• Gaining and maintaining respect
• Use of voice
• Practical solutions to everyday problems
• Engaging children in play
• Managing behaviour positively

A course for School Leaders on the responsibilities for school attendance outlined in Working Together to Improve School Attendance.

• Responsibilities for All Pupils
• Pupils at risk of becoming Persistently Absent
• Persistently Absent Pupils
• Severely Absent Pupils

A course for school staff with responsibilities for attendance monitoring highlighting how to secure good attendance and what to do to deal with persistent absence.

• Communicating expectations to parents and pupils
• Establishing what issues a family may have
• Having the “right people in place”
• Noticing patterns of irregular attendance
• Identifying weaknesses in a school’s practice
• Getting beneath the surface of persistent absence

A whole school training program supporting individual schools in a collaborative bespoke approach to improving whole school behaviour.

A whole school approach to behaviour management.

• Create a consistent approach in your school
• Based on cognitive behaviour principles
• Support children to recover behaviour and to learn new ways to behave
• Build a system of layered cycles of support for children
• Build a data rich basis for behaviour management in your school
• Develop a positive ethos and culture
• Support staff to take ownership of their own classroom behaviour
• Avoid fixed term exclusion is a positive managed way
• Give children ownership of their behaviour
• Include the governing body in your ethos and culture

How?

• Meeting with SLT members of staff and any middle leaders
• A look into the current school systems
• A planned approach for whole school training
• Half a day/full day training for all staff including teachers, TAs, SLT, governors and lunchtime staff
• Gather data on your outcomes
• Support to analyse data and write an action plan
• Embed action plan into your school improvement plan and review regularly