Birmingham 25 – 27 July 2017 - nurtureuk · 2018. 2. 23. · • The presentation of Boxall Profiles and case studies of pupils • Practical strategies for supporting children

NGN Summer School2017St John’s HotelBirmingham25 – 27 July 2017

MALVERN SUITE

Mon

24

July 7:00 – 9:00 9:00 – 10:00 10:00 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 13:00

Lunch (Tempus Restaurant)

Arrival and registration

Breakfast(Tempus Restaurant)

Tues

25

July

7:00 – 9:00 9:00 – 12:00 11:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 13:00


A whole-school approach to nurture

Attachment theory & practical strategies

The Wellbeing Toolkit for professionals

Arrival and registration


GLOUCESTER 1

GLOUCESTER 2

PACKWOOD SUITE

MALVERN SUITE

BANBURY SUITE

GLOUCESTER 1

GLOUCESTER 2

PACKWOOD SUITE

SEMINAR 2

SEMINAR 4

STRATFORD SUITE

Wed

26

July

7:00 – 9:00 9:00 – 10:15 10:30 – 11:45 12:15 – 13:30

Yoga


MALVERN SUITE

BANBURY SUITE

GLOUCESTER 1

GLOUCESTER 2

PACKWOOD SUITE

SEMINAR 2

SEMINAR 4

STRATFORD SUITE

Staff wellbeing through music LEGO® BuildtoExpress

Developing a growth mind set culture in the nurture setting...

Boris can beat it

Five ways to wellbeing Bounce or break?

Group theraplay in the nurture room

Engaging parents

Let me tell you a story Assignment support

Measuring the impact of a nurture group

Safe to learn – Developing nurture principals

Influencing SLT – A practical approach to embedding nurture

Social and emotional curriculum of nurture groups

Coping with bereavement...

Coaching conversations

Five ways to wellbeing

Keep talking!

Helping children understand and manage their feelings



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7:00 – 9:00 9:00 – 10:15 10:30 – 11:45 12:15 – 13:30

Yoga


MALVERN SUITE

BANBURY SUITE

GLOUCESTER 1

GLOUCESTER 2

PACKWOOD SUITE

SEMINAR 2

SEMINAR 4

STRATFORD SUITE

Staff wellbeing through music LEGO® BuildtoExpress

Boris can beat itDeveloping a growth mind set culture in the nurture setting...

The Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award


Keep talking! Group theraplay in the nurture room

Fundraising for your nurture group



A day in the life of headlands nurture group

Running an effective nurture group in the secondary school




Bounce or break?

Engaging parents

Let me tell you a story



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13:00 – 17:00 17:00 – 19:00 19:00 – late

A whole-school approach to nurture

Attachment theory & practical strategies


BreakDinner &

networking workshop

(Tempus Restaurant)

13:00 – 14:15 14:30 – 15:30 15:45 – 17:00 17:00 – 19:00 19:00 – lateYoga

LEGO® BuildtoExpress




The use of nuture for transition into secondary education



Big picture session 1

Speed nurture


Break Dinner & Pub Quiz

(Tempus Restaurant)

The Wellbeing Toolkit for professionals

12:15 – 13:30 14:30 – 15:30 15:45 – 17:00 17:00 – 19:00 19:00 – late

Break Gala Dinner & Karaoke

(Malvern Suite)

13:30 – 14:30

Big picture session 2





Keep talking!




Staff wellbeing through music

Boris can beat it

Bounce or break?

Engaging parents

The use of nurture for transition into secondary education



12:15 – 13:30 14:45 – 15:00 13:45

Lunch to go



Bounce or break?

Engaging parents




Big picture session

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Masterclasses

Social programme

Workshops

www.nurturegroups.orgBig picture sessions

NGN is delighted to present our third annual summer school, following on from last year’s hugely successful event. Returning to the Midlands, we will be hosting the conference at the 4 star St John’s Hotel in Birmingham. This year we are bringing you our biggest conference yet. We will be offering you longer workshops, more workshop options, brand new big picture sessions, brand new masterclasses, as well as plenty of networking opportunities with fellow practitioners from around the UK and beyond.

We will have access to St John’s Hotel gym and swimming pool, in addition to offering Yoga classes. There is also an onsite spa* and a beautiful garden, a perfect space for some self-reflection and mindfulness. There will be plenty of fun evening activities to get involved in such as speed networking, a pub quiz, a formal gala dinner and karaoke.

All meals, refreshments (except alcoholic drinks) are included and accommodation is provided in comfortable en-suite rooms in the hotel.

Paying by instalmentsWe are pleased to be able to offer delegates the opportunity to pay for your place at the Summer School 2017 in instalments. You pay the balance in equal monthly instalments over a period of either six or eight months using a credit or debit card. (Please note we cannot offer payment by instalments via invoice). Please fill out the booking form attached and tick the ‘Pay by instalments’ box, followed by the email address at which you would like to receive correspondence for payments.

For more information on the payment plans and to book your place, visit www.nurturegroups.org/events and click on the link NGN Summer School 2017.

“ An amazing experience. So glad I came. I will definitely be coming back next year and intend on bringing my Head.” Nurture practitioner

“ I have found the summer school to be a fantastic experience. A great opportunity to network and ‘magpie’ ideas. I have a long list of things to introduce or improve on in September. Very much hoping to attend again next year.” Nurture practitioner

“ This has been an amazing experience. I have picked up so many tips and so much knowledge - not only from the speakers in the workshops, but from fellow delegates over coffee, and at meal times. I now have so much more confidence to try new things in the school.” Nurture practitioner

BursariesNGN is delighted once again to be able to provide 100 bursaries of £100 for this event. The bursaries are on a first-come first-served basis and are non-transferable between delegates. To apply for your bursary, please contact Gillian Fewins in the London office on 020 3475 8980 or email [email protected].

*spa facilities are offered directly from the hotel at an additional cost.

Social programme

Big picture sessionsWe are currently working hard to bring you bigger and better big picture sessions than ever before. Previously big picture sessions have included topics such as; ‘the role of an educational psychologist’, ‘a journey from special measures to outstanding’ and ‘holistic approaches to nurture.’ Please visit our website www.nurturegroups.org/events for updates on this year’s big picture speakers and topics.

MondayDelegates who choose to attend the masterclass day will come together for a two-course sit down meal, followed by table top team activities, designed to promote networking and team building in groups who work in similar settings to your own. Delegates will build structures and solutions with their teammates, while building relationships and sharing good practice with one another.

TuesdayWith the arrival of non-masterclass delegates, all practitioners will be treated to a round of ‘speed nurture’, where practitioners will network and break the ice with other delegates, ‘speed dating’ style, before attending workshops and big picture sessions. In the evening we will sit down to a delicious meal celebrating cuisines from across the globe, followed by a repeat of last year’s hugely successful pub quiz.

WednesdayOn the last evening of summer school, delegates will attend our formal dinner with a sumptuous three-course meal – a wonderful occasion to round up everything we have learned throughout the three days. A perfect opportunity to celebrate old and new friendships. This will be followed by a newly included karaoke night, featuring NGN’s own celebrated songster and songstress, Kevin Kibble and Claire Eccleshall. What better way to let down your hair after an intensive few days of nurture?

Helen Stollery

The Wellbeing Toolkit for professionalsHelen joined NGN as a National Training Officer in September 2007 and is now the Head of Training. She comes from a teaching background, working as a mainstream teacher for some time. While teaching, Helen set up and ran a nurture group within an infant school.

Wellbeing in schools is a fundamental prerequisite for healthy and productive quality teaching and learning. Both children and teachers need to be supported, fit and well to be inspired and inspiring. This masterclass will introduce practitioners to the Wellbeing Toolkit for professionals, which is a programme of professional development to promote and maintain resilience and personal effectiveness. The 20 sessions in this toolkit aim to provide the necessary resources to enable staff to enhance their own wellbeing. Each of the key topics provides a package of training and resources that includes information leaflets, strategies, skills-based activities and a power point presentation.

MasterclassesWendy Roden

Attachment theory & practical strategiesWendy is an experienced teacher who has worked in a range of primary and secondary settings. She was appointed National Training Officer in 2012. It was through working with the first primary nurture group in Cumbria that she realised the potential of nurture groups. She has worked with schools in an advisory capacity to develop innovative approaches and systemic change targeted towards addressing some of the ‘barriers to learning’ experienced by children and young people. This included the development of nurture groups.

This masterclass is of particular relevance to members of staff who have completed the accredited training in the Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups and are running a nurture group. It is also useful for any staff who are working with, or who come into contact with children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social developmental needs and wish to improve their practice and make a difference.

This masterclass will include:

• An overview of attachment theory with links to neuroscience in the context of nurture groups

• The relevance for learning and behaviour• Links to the six nurture group principles• The presentation of Boxall Profiles and case studies

of pupils• Practical strategies for supporting children and young

people with links to Beyond the Boxall Profile

Yvonne Monaghan & Kirsten Mann

A whole-school approach to nurture Yvonne joined NGN in 2015 as Head of Consultancy. Kirsten joined in the same year as National Training Officer for Scotland. Together they are responsible for rolling out the National Nurturing School Award across the UK.

It is evident that there is a clear need for mainstream classrooms to be re-conceptualised in a way that is informed by an understanding of educational nurturing. The six principles of nurture – and their specific approach to teaching – allow for more effective learning. Nurturing principles are based on valuing not only the pupils but also staff and parents, and seeking to understand and respect them as unique individuals, placing their personal development as the highest priority.

The National Nurturing School Award is an exciting programme for all schools aiming to support their pupils and stakeholders. Based on the six principles of nurture that have successfully underpinned nurture groups for over 40 years, this programme allows schools to develop and embed a nurturing culture that enhances stakeholder attachment and engagement. The programme has been developed and is administered by NGN, the world’s leading centre for nurture in education and awarding body of the Certificate in Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups, the nationally recognised qualification for running a nurture group in schools.

Since the National Nurturing Schools Programme was launched in 2015, over 80 schools have attended the initial two-day training.

WorkshopsAngi Franklin

LEGO® BuildtoExpressThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Angi joined NGN as a Training Officer in 2013. Previously she worked for the Behaviour Support Advisory Team at a local authority. As part of her role, Angi delivered training in attachment theory, early language development, behaviour management, autism and sensory issues.

LEGO® Education has been working with schools for more than 30 years. Its aim is to help practitioners to take a more progressive approach and to unlock their pupils’ interest in learning. LEGO® BuildToExpress (BTE) encourages pupils to express their thoughts and ideas symbolically, which is a more playful, creative and hands-on way of engaging pupils of all abilities. The method ensures a secure and non-judgemental process for solving problems, expressing personal feelings and breaking down barriers that can affect achievement in curriculum-based topics.

Kirsten Mann

Supporting staff through coaching conversationsThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Kirsten joined NGN in 2015 as the National Training Officer for Scotland. As an experienced primary teacher with a background in support for learning she has taught in a range of settings, has set up and run nurture groups, was a school-based dyslexia adviser and, just prior to joining NGN, was principal teacher of a language and communication resource. Kirsten mentored newly qualified teachers for many years and has an interest in teacher professional learning.

Those in support and advisory roles can be looked upon as the ‘experts who will come up with strategies and know all the answers.’ A school once phoned a behaviour support service to send a teacher out because a pupil had climbed up a tree and wouldn’t come down. The behaviour support teacher had never met this pupil before yet there was a perception this person had some specific expertise or perhaps even magic powers! This workshop is aimed at anyone who has a role in offering advice and support to staff. Coaching conversations help staff to tease out the specific issues when facing challenging situations, can guide, support and tap into their own expertise. They have the potential to help staff develop strategies to support their pupils in ways that are sustainable within their context and support positive relationships. The workshop will briefly cover theories of mentoring and coaching and provide opportunities to practise coaching conversations using a simple framework.

Claire Eccleshall

Staff wellbeing through musicThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Claire has been involved in NGN for many years. She had a long career as a nurture group practitioner and an associate trainer for NGN before joining the team as a training officer.

Around the world, across all societies and religions and ethnic groups, singing has been a significant feature of human behaviour throughout time. Singing can make you cry, singing can make you laugh and singing can ignite your passions. Singing is also wonderful for relationships and connecting people spiritually and naturally. Singing creates positive energy and a happy mood that is infectious and transparently good for everyone. Being a nurture practitioner is uniquely demanding and can be emotionally draining at times. We often spend so much time worrying and caring for our pupils we neglect our own wellbeing. This workshop looks at the benefits of singing for emotional and physical wellbeing and looks at ways to bring music into your everyday life to experience the spiritual and uplifting effect that singing can bring.

Kevin Kibble

Coping with bereavement in children and young peopleThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Kevin is the chief executive of the Nurture Group Network. Prior to joining NGN in January 2013, Kevin was chief executive at Caspari Foundation, a charity providing educational psychotherapy for children & young people who need help to overcome emotional barriers to learning & development. Kevin is passionate about the power of education in effecting societal change.

Every one of us will, at some point experience a significant loss and have to suffer the grief and bereavement that ensues. It is helpful to understand the process both in terms of how we cope and also how children and young people manage this kind of loss. This workshop will raise staff awareness and prompt further discussion and planning around meeting the needs of a bereaved young person and providing an appropriately differentiated programme of support to reduce stress and the possibility of non-attendance.

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Kevin Kibble

Fundraising for your nurture groupThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Funding can be an issue, especially in times of austerity. If you need to raise funds for a specific event, or to establish your nurture group, Kevin will show you how to craft a grant application form so your application stands above the rest.

Helen Stollery

Engaging parentsThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

This workshop focuses on why parental engagement is so important for a successful nurture group using research and Ofsted guidance to highlight what works and focus ideas. The aim is to highlight ways to break down barriers and build positive relationships with even difficult to reach parents. The workshop looks at the Family SEAL approach and gives practical strategies to develop this to become Family Nurture. In addition there is an opportunity to look at MBQMA groups and discover what makes best practice for parental engagement within the award.

Jaki Reid

YogaThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Jaki Reid has been working with vulnerable young people for 23 years, as a teacher for the last ten and in a nurture group for the last three. She also currently teaches four yoga classes per week locally and has trained in giving reiki and Thai yoga massage.

Jaki started yoga in her 20s and returned to it as a regular practice in her 30s as a means to balance out the stresses she faced as an NQT. Six years ago, she decided to explore the practice further and trained as a yoga teacher with the Classical Yoga School (CYS) and yogis such as David Sye, David Swenson and David Kyle. The training was based on ashtanga and explored the concept of teaching seasonally. This session will focus on seasonal yoga, which is founded on the knowledge that we are a part of nature and therefore part of its changes, which allows us to adapt our practice to promote health on every level. Seasonal yoga assists us to cultivate an awareness of these changing energetic states and then how to use them to complement the season we are in, or to adapt to what is going on in the world around us. Seasonal yoga classes change five times a year to reflect seasonal changes, and work with these energies and qualities to support individual organs and systems, encouraging physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Delegates are encouraged to bring a yoga mat or towel to use if possible.

Wendy Roden

The Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark AwardThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

There is now a more established research base for evaluating the effectiveness of nurture groups. The published outcomes of the research bring added weight to the importance of maintaining the integrity of the model in its delivery to vulnerable children and young people in schools and other establishments. The Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award involves assessing the work of a nurture group against a set of quality standards. These standards are derived from the six principles of nurture groups and their clearly defined operational characteristics.

This workshop is of particular relevance to practitioners who:

• Have completed the accredited training in the Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups

• Are running a nurture group• Are working towards the Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award• Want to make specific links to OFSTED

Jeni Barnacle

Influencing SLT – a practical approach to embedding nurtureThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Jeni has been an advocate for nurture since 2002, when she was the head teacher of St Andrews Primary School in Norfolk. During 11 years as head teacher, Jeni and her staff embedded the six principles of nurture across the whole school. Their journey became the subject of a TV programme as well as being used as an excellent example of nurture across many conferences. Jeni is now an associate consultant, trainer and the regional co-ordinator of East Anglia for NGN.

In Jeni’s role as an NGN trainer delivering the Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups course, she often finds that the barriers for establishing and continuing to develop a nurture group provision or nurturing school are not the staff who walk the walk, but its sometimes members of the SLT who are the barrier, looking for a quick fix without real understanding of what nurture really means.

This can be a huge challenge if you are a member of support staff with a limited voice and influence, which can be very frustrating.

In this workshop we will aim to look at

• A solutions-based approach to achieving your goals • Some practical ideas for challenging misconceptions –

change mind sets • A toolkit of strategies to bring ‘nurture non believers’

on board

Caroline McKinley & Lois Stone

Running an effective nurture group in the secondary schoolThis workshop is suitable for secondary practitioners

Caroline and Lois run a secondary nurture group in Cardiff. In early 2016 they were awarded the Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award by NGN. The aim of this workshop is to provide information on how to run a successful and effective nurture group in the secondary school. The workshop will look at the issues faced when setting up a secondary school nurture group such as organising timetables, working collaboratively with colleagues in a larger school and at ways to encourage support from mainstream teachers, pupils and their parents/carers. The workshop will also look at sharing good practice in running a successful secondary school nurture group including organisation of sessions, and how to tailor sessions to meet the specific needs of nurture group pupils in Key Stages 3 and 4. The session will also address best practice in working with primary school colleagues to select pupils for secondary nurture groups prior to them starting secondary school to ensure a smooth transition.

Wendy Roden

Assignment support This workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

As a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator and Social Inclusion co-ordinator in a secondary school Wendy was responsible for developing and managing provision for pupils with a wide range of additional needs. It was during this time and through links with the first primary nurture group in Cumbria that she realised the potential of nurture groups.

Working as a Behaviour and Attendance Improvement Programme co-ordinator involved working with schools to develop innovative approaches targeted towards addressing some of the ‘barriers to learning’ experienced by children and young people, aiming to raise aspirations and ‘narrow the gap’ to secure active engagement and positive outcomes. As part of this programme a number of schools developed nurture groups. She co-ordinated networking and professional development opportunities including an annual nurture group conference in Cumbria.

Wendy will be helping people who are currently in the training process, completing applications, or just need some advice on the best training path.

Philippa Jeavons

Social and emotional curriculum of nurture groupsThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Philippa is a trainee educational psychologist at the University of East London.

Nurture groups have a strong evidence base to demonstrate increased scores in Boxall Profiles - but how is this achieved? Philippa has conducted research into how nurture group practitioners deliver their social and emotional wellbeing curriculum. It looks into what skills nurture group practitioners use to develop self-esteem, confidence and increase the scores on the Boxall Profile. It will share what frameworks and curriculums are used and key themes that came from the research. The research will look at what nurture group practitioners felt was important and how they had such a large impact on the children they taught. The workshop will provide a space for practitioners to discuss and reflect on their own practice and highlight common themes found through the research that are beneficial to the process.

Helen Green

Developing a growth mind set culture in the nurture setting and beyondThis workshop is suitable for secondary practitioners

Helen is a qualified SENCO working in a large Cornish secondary school. She manages and leads the KS3 nurture provision for Years 7 and 8 and is advising and assisting with a new nurture initiative in the KS4 setting. Helen also delivers a social and communication skills (SoCcS) programme to students with ASD.

This workshop will equip delegates with the necessary means to begin fostering a ‘growth mind set culture’ both in the nurture setting and in the wider context of both the whole-school ethos and within the home setting. The growth mind set philosophy encompasses the promotion of grit, determination, resilience and perseverance as life-long skills; endlessly malleable and subject to development. In addition to learning how to incorporate growth mind set enhancing activities into their daily nurture base structures, delegates will be presented with the relevant tools to assist colleagues, parents and governors in modifying their own use of language and conversation to further build on successes within classroom-led strategies. Additional digital resources will be available for delegates to take away should they so wish.

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Fi Durrant

The use of nurture for transition into secondary educationThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Fi is a year leader for year 7, which includes supporting a tutor team and pastoral monitoring of the students. Fi also delivers intervention work, and is a qualified youth worker. A large portion of her work is working with primary schools to ensure a smooth transition for young people to secondary school, and delivering work throughout year 7 to promote positive relationships and healthy attachment to school.

This is an introduction to understanding transition for young people, focusing on the transition from primary to secondary education and the impact of this on a young person as well as how this relates to brain development at this age. Delegates will be supported to understand the theory behind transition and application of theory in mainstream secondary education. Delegates will be aware of the differences between primary and secondary education and how to support children to manage these changes effectively. The workshop will cover best practice to use nurture groups to help manage transition for young people, with examples of nurture programmes grounded in theory to help meet the specific needs of young people across transition. The learning outcomes for this workshop would be: to develop an understanding of the importance of nurture groups in transition, to understand transition theory and how this connects to attachment and nurture theory, to gain practical knowledge on implementation of nurture groups in mainstream secondary school, to gain ideas for practical activities that can be delivered in a nurture group in secondary education.

Antonia Farino

Helping children understand and manage their feelingsThis workshop is suitable for primary practitioners

Antonia has been a nurture group teacher for five years. She currently runs a KS1 Boxall Quality Mark accredited cluster nurture group and she is in the process of setting up a KS2 cluster nurture group.

This workshop will explore a variety of different resources and activities that can help a child gain emotional literacy and build a range of skills that help them manage their feelings and develop resilience thus having a positive impact on their mental health and wellbeing. In the workshop we will explore how we can support emotional literacy within the daily routines of the nurture group. We will also explore the use of puppets and art as indirect and tactile experiences that can tap into unconscious thoughts and feelings and therefore enable a therapeutic and creative opportunity for self-expression.

Deborah Duncan and Fiona Higgins

Measuring the impact of a nurture groupThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

As a team we work closely together to carefully plan for the group following a specific curriculum we have designed based on health and wellbeing. We follow the nurture principles within our day-to-day sessions not only for our nurture group but also with our social skills and primary/secondary transition group. As we are a strategic nurture group we liaise closely with the 11 mainstream schools within our cluster area, ensuring transference of skills by regular communication, meetings and working with their mainstream classes. Parental engagement is a fundamental part of our role, as is working alongside various agencies. As part of our school improvement plan we are also working towards embedding nurture principles within our whole school setting.

The workshop will focus on the importance for nurture groups to determine the impact on learners’ social, emotional and academic progress. We will include examples of questionnaires and assessment materials and show you how to produce statistical analysis to evidence the impact nurture has on young children, giving you the means to implement this within your setting.

Esther Gray

Group Theraplay in the nurture roomThis workshop is suitable for primary practitioners

Esther is a primary nurture teacher. She leads the nurture group at Woodnewton primary in Corby, Northamptonshire. Her nurture group has a group of up to 10 children from age five to eight.

Group Theraplay raises self-esteem and develops trust in others and promotes joyful engagement through practical activities. Sessions guide the child through playful, fun games, developmentally challenging activities and nurturing tasks. During the sessions the adults are able to regulate the child’s behaviour and communicate joy and safety. This workshop will explore the impact of Group Theraplay in Esther’s nurture setting and will aim to give practitioners the confidence to build Theraplay into their daily practice. The workshop will promote discussion and the sharing of ideas for creating a Theraplay atmosphere and will provide examples for structuring individual sessions.

Jason Harding Swale

Boris can beat itThis workshop is suitable for primary practitioners

Jason is a main grade educational psychologist who leads nurture across his service. He is also the link EP for the Virtual School. Jason carries out the full range of EP duties including assessment, consultation, research, training, whole school development work and local authority development work.

This workshop showcases an intervention offered to primary schools in East Sussex. Children experiencing high levels of anxiety are identified in collaboration with the Educational Psychology Service and invited to join a Boris can Beat It group. Groups run over six to eight weeks, creating an opportunity to share feelings and develop understanding and coping strategies through a range of activities including stories, art and craft, and relaxation. They also incorporate activities that can be carried out at home. This is a safe and supportive group that aims to help members feel comfortable about sharing their thoughts and feelings together. Boris is a teddy bear who is a worrier. Together, he and the children work through their worries together, practising strategies to reduce anxiety. Workshop participants will learn how the intervention works and be given session plans and other resources to enable them to set up and run a similar intervention in their own school. The sessions include meeting each other, meeting Boris the Bear, identifying feelings, knowing what happens to our body when we feel worried, learning how to relax and feel good, talking to our friends and family, positive self-talk and imagination.

Nicola Furey

Five ways to wellbeingThis workshop is suitable for primary practitioners

Do you wake up with same feeling, doing the same thing as you’ve always done and interacting in the same way? How about finding out a new way to do everyday things that will promote better wellbeing for yourself and in the process help your children to take responsibility for their own wellbeing too? Then this workshop is for you! The Five Ways to Wellbeing are a set of evidence-based actions that promote people’s wellbeing. They are: Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give. These activities are simple things individuals can do in their everyday lives to promote wellbeing. Since Nicola and her team launched the Five Ways to Wellbeing in her school it has been successful in capturing the imagination of staff, parents and children. They have developed and extended it further to support children’s resilience, social, emotional and mental health. The workshop will explore each individual strand of the five ways, giving practical ideas and strategies to achieving better wellbeing for all. It will also examine and give details of how through this programme Nicola’s team launched Buoyancy balloons and Badges of Honour, resulting in increasing self-efficacy and wellbeing for the children.

Charlene Robinson, Andrea Esp & Rebecca Oakes

Safe to learn – developing nurture principalsThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Safe to learn is an eight-session certificated course that has been provided in the borough of Southend-on-Sea, Essex for all nurture group practitioners. This workshop is a summary of the course and recap of the nurture principles. The workshop will provide more insight into how the brain develops at an early age and scientific and chemical imbalances contribute to behaviour. It will also touch on the effect of neglect on young children and how to use nurture bases and attachment as a second chance to progress in education.

This workshop will reiterate the importance of having an understanding that all behaviour is communication and that what a child experiences in the very early stages of their life affects them later on. Having up to date scientific information will assist with knowledge and understanding and help to embed ideas. This workshop would be of particular value to those with difficult cases and would like to get to know their background more to support them accordingly.

Miranda Collins

Let me tell you a storyThis workshop is suitable for primary practitioners

When you share a story with a child, the experience is about more than the words and pictures in the book. The intimacy of being in close proximity with the person who is reading, the sensory stimulation of the sounds of the words and images of the illustrations all contribute to an emotional experience as well as a cognitive one. We know very well what sharing stories bring children in terms of their emerging literacy skills – the ability to listen, to follow a sequence, to retain information, to understand similarities and differences…the list could and does go on! During this session, Miranda will consider ways of evidencing the acquisition of cognitive skills through stories, so that delegates are more confident in planning appropriate literacy activities that fill the identified gaps in a child’s literacy learning. But what about the emotional aspects of sharing stories? This workshop will look at the essential emotional processes at work when we share stories with children, from the hormonal response that occurs in the background to the way in which we can use stories wisely to comfort, calm and teach. In addition, delegates will discover a range of books that promote emotional literacy, social skills and curious questioning, thinking also about the range of texts and how each might be used in nurture. By the end of the workshop, delegates will have a framework for evidencing how sharing stories in nurture can make a considerable impact on both aspects.

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Matthew Burns and Stacey Wiggins

A day in the life of a nurture group in a special schoolThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

Matthew is the head teacher of Headlands School; a co-educational independent special school that offers day and residential placements based in Penarth in South Wales. Stacey is the leader of their nurture group, which in 2016 was awarded the Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award.

In this workshop, Matthew and Stacey will take delegates through a day in the life of their nurture group, discussing their own personal experiences and strategies, and their journey to the MBQMA award. They will also discuss their schools’ successes from both an SLT perspective and an on the ground perspective, showing how they evidence their progress and how they are developing the nurture principals throughout the whole school.

Colette Marston and Julie Hampton

Keep TalkingThis workshop is suitable for primary practitioners

Colette is a founder member of NGN and during her teaching career she ran a classic secondary nurture group and later a new primary Model KS 2 group. Julie has also had a very successful teaching career, having been the designated teacher overseeing a delightful KS 1 group. She has a wealth of experience and always has an answer to a problem. During the workshop she will introduce you to her two ‘girls’ and an arrogant American zebra. Both Julie and Colette are passionate about nurture groups and have experience in delivering training and supporting practitioners. One of the four original principles focused on language development and four decades later this remains one of the now six principles. The cumulative vocabulary experiences of children from differing backgrounds has been well researched and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has described the discrepancy as ‘staggering’’. The DfE has identified that a child’s language development is strongly associated with performance across all subject areas and crucially identifying that it is the quality of the child’s ‘communication environment’ that is the key. The National Literacy Trust identified that a child’s vocabulary at the age of five is the best single predictor of later social mobility. Based on the above rationale, the workshop will be largely practical and interactive, and will investigate planned, accidental and incidental opportunities for developing language skills within your NG. Ideas for extension games to meet varying academic levels and the demands of the curriculum will be explored. All the activities have been designed so they are achievable at minimal cost. The most expensive item you might want to buy is a pillowcase!

Angela O’Neill

Bounce or break? Supporting children’s mental health and emotional wellbeingThis workshop is suitable for primary and secondary practitioners

This workshop will explore recent findings from the work conducted for Angela’s MEd thesis which examined the link between resilience and self-esteem and the associated impact on children’s mental health. A key finding of the work is that the relationship between resilience and self-esteem is indeed relationships and research has shown that it can take just one adult to believe in a child in order for them to succeed.

Main outcomes for participants will include:

• An understanding of resilience and how it fits with nurture principles, particularly in relation to The Classroom as a Safe Base and The importance of Nurture for the Development of Wellbeing.

• A detailed look at self-esteem and the related components such as positive, negative, high and low self-esteem. Participants will also have an understanding of their own views in relation to their self-esteem and how it impacts on their own approach to work, family, etc.

• An understanding of the importance of relationships across a range of domains to support children and young people develop positive self-esteem, a healthy attitude and mind set to bounce back when faced with adversity, and their belief in their ability to succeed.

• The role of practitioners and their self-efficacy for developing a nurturing, supportive learning environment.

Booking formMasterclass and Summer SchoolPlease complete sections 1 to 4 as required

• Please use a separate booking form for each delegate.

• Either use this booking form or download an interactive PDF version from our website www.nurturegroups.org

PricesSummer School with Masterclass day £595+VATSummer School only £495+VAT£100 bursary available for first 100 delegates to book. Contact Gillian Fewins for more details (E: [email protected]; T: 020 3475 8980)

1 I would like to attendSummer School with Masterclass day complete sections 2–4Summer School only complete sections 3–4

2 Choose one masterclassMon 13:00 – 17:00 and Tues 09:00 – 12:00 A whole-school approach to nurtureMon 13:00 – 17:00 and Tues 09:00 – 12:00 Attachment theory & practical strategiesMon 13:00 – 17:00 and Tues 09:00 – 12:00 The Wellbeing Toolkit for professionals

3 Your details and paymentI would like to pay by: Instalments1 Credit/debit card1 Invoice2 Cheque3

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NGN Summer School 2017 Closing date 30 June 2017

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1. To pay by instalments or credit/debit card, please send your booking form to our London office and we will be in touch to set up payment.2. To pay by invoice, please send your booking form to the office and you will be issued with an invoice.3. To pay by cheque, please send your booking form along with the cheque to The Nurture Group Network, 18a Victoria Park Square, London E2 9PF.

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4 Choose one workshop from each timeslot (eight in total)

Tuesday 25 July Wednesday 26 July

09:00 – 10:15Yoga


Boris can beat it






10:30 – 11:45LEGO® BuildToExpress


Bounce or break?

Engaging parents

Assignment support



12:15 – 13:30Coping with bereavement



Keep talking!




15:45 – 17:00Staff wellbeing through music

Boris can beat it

Bounce or break!

Engaging parents

The use of nurture for transition into secondary education



Thursday 27 July

09:00 – 10:15Yoga




Keep talking!

Fundraising for your nurture group



10:30 – 11:45LEGO® BuildToExpress

Boris can beat it






12:15 – 13:30Coping with bereavement


Bounce or break?

Engaging parents




Please send your booking form to: Gillian Fewins, The Nurture Group Network, 18A Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PFFor further information please contact Gillian Fewins T 020 3475 8980 E [email protected]

15:45 – 17:00Yoga

LEGO® BuildToExpress




The use of nuture for transition into secondary education



Keep talking!

www.nurturegroups.org

Become a member Visit our website for more informationNational Office t 020 3475 8980 e [email protected] Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PF

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Documents

Birmingham 25 – 27 July 2017 - nurtureuk · 2018. 2. 23. · • The presentation of Boxall Profiles and case studies of pupils • Practical strategies for supporting children