This collection of courses will help mental health leads to meet the Department for Education learning objectives with regards to working with parents, families and carers.

This collection of courses will help mental health leads to meet the Department for Education learning objectives with regards to staff development.

These courses are all designed to support you to support your child. These courses are all suitable for parents and carers of children aged about 11 and over.

These courses are all designed to support you to support your child. They are all suitable for parents and carers of children aged about 11 and under though many of the ideas are useful if for supporting older children too.

This collection of courses will help you to meet the mental health needs of a wide range of children with special or additional needs, characteristics or circumstances.

This collection of courses will help you to recognise and respond to a wide range of mental health and emotional wellbeing issues.

This collection of courses will help mental health leads to meet the Department for Education learning objectives with regards to leadership and management.

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This is an introductory course for all staff and volunteers working with children in schools and colleges. This course will explore where mental health problems in young people might indicate that they are being abused or harmed. We will consider what abuse is, how children experiencing mental health issues may be more vulnerable to abuse and consider mental health as an indicator of harm. You will also learn what to do if you are concerned about the mental health or wellbeing of a child in your school. 

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This course, for all levels of professionals including those new to education and parents and carers aims to develop knowledge and confidence of how to use stories to boost all learner’s resilience and mental health, linked to importance of this for all learners, including those with SEND and more complex needs. Research indicates a link between the development of personal resilience and storytelling, this course will provide clarity, understanding and strategies to use in the school and home environment. Practical ideas, advice and ways forward are provided to make a difference now.

During this practical short course, Pooky will walk you through a range of simple ideas to help you to better look after yourself if you have caring responsibilities – this of course applies to all parents and carers but the ideas will be especially pertinent to those caring for a child with special needs or disabilities.  None of these ideas require any existing knowledge or experience and they are all designed to feel easily doable.  You don’t have to do them all; pick one or two and see how you get on. This is one of a series of webinars commissioned by Resilient Rutland who are funded by the National Lottery.

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The boys in your school and your classes face some general & some very specific pressures; from school, family, peers and especially themselves. Great teaching and maybe some different approaches will help boys to connect better with school and their learning.

Teachers need to know and understand how to assess pupils in their subjects, including the statutory assessment requirements.  They need to make use of formative and summative assessment to secure pupils’ progress, and use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons.  Teachers also need to give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback.  In this course, Matt Bromley explores the central tenets of effective assessment, marking and feedback.

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