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.

Throughout this course, we will learn about the signs of PTSD, discuss the risk and protective factors and how to support those with PTSD at home and in school.

This is a recording of a past webinar. We will explore what emotional wellbeing means and why it is important in education. Julie Calveley will…

Particularly in the current context of Covid-19, as the country starts to return to the new normal, we are finding now more than ever that more and more young people are avoiding school for emotional reasons. Throughout this course, we will learn what emotionally based school avoidance is and is not. We will also consider what we can do to support young people to get them back into school and staying in school. 

We will cover the mental health challenges and needs of BAME children and young people. To do this, we will consider the mental health context and consider strategies for supporting them both inside and outside of school.   

We will cover the mental health challenges and needs of this vulnerable group of children and young people as well as think about how we can work with their families. The strategies we will cover will work alongside your safeguarding policies and procedures.  

I would like to share with you some practical ideas for encouraging meaningful engagement with people with PMLD. These activities will enhance communication, interaction, curiosity, initiation and good mental wellbeing through having fun with our senses! Through the joint participation of party activities, it is possible to create a sense of awe and wonder, anticipation, excitement and reflection. This course would be suitable for anyone who spends time with people with PMLD and who is looking for some simple yet fun activities to initiate and enhance communication.

During this session, child bereavement specialist, Beck Ferrari will share practical strategies you can use to support autistic children and young people when faced with…

This course will provide an overview into what constitutes as self-harm, how the onset may occur in young people and the factors that may increase or decrease the likelihood of young people displaying signs of self-harm. We will also look at some of the things that can be done to support those who may be self-harming. 

During this course, you will work through a series of modules around the mental health needs of children who are LGBTQ+, the challenges they face and what we can do to meet their needs both at home and in school.  

In this course we only look at 4 of the ways to wellbeing because no 5 is covered in a complete course on its own – Keep Active. Evidence tells us that if we actually put some of these suggestions in place our wellbeing will improve. We offer some practical ideas to make it work.

You will understand how to consider and lead on change within a school to motivate and inspire colleagues to be part of your whole school approach to mental health.

During this course, you will work through a series of modules around the mental health needs of children with chronic medical conditions, their families and the staff working with them.  

This course will enable you to gain a deeper understanding about how anxiety may present in young people. We will look at how to spot the signs as well as what can be done to support young people who may have anxiety.  

During this course, you will work through a series of modules around the mental health needs of young people following bereavement and loss. We will cover both contextual knowledge and some strategies to think about when you are planning appropriate support for young people. 

Training for all levels of professionals, including those new to education and parents and carers.  The course will provide an overview of the EHCP process, from requesting one, to creation and through to challenging decisions. The impact on the education of learners with PMLD of EHCP process, and how we can get this right will be explored and practical strategies provided. The key role of effective multi professional collaboration, alongside a holistic approach will be highlighted. Strategies to ensure effective integration of advice into the EHCP process from day one will be explored

In this course, you will consider how to ensure that all stakeholders will understand your vision and the urgency behind your whole school mental health strategy. This will include how to engage leaders, staff, parents, students, governors and local support services. 

Language processing disorders come in different forms and for the purposes of this course we will be discussing expressive language disorder. In a further course we will be discussing receptive language disorder as these are the two main language difficulties experienced by children in our classrooms.  Expressive language disorder is seen when children struggle to express their needs, wants and thoughts clearly. Their writing may also be affected as they mature and begin to attend school.   During this course Cherryl will explore the nature of expressive language disorder and she will also discuss what the causes might be. Cherryl will discuss how to spot a child with expressive language disorder and she will give some examples of how a child might be affected.    Cherryl has also devised a further course ‘Ten Strategies for Working with Children with Expressive Language Disorder’. This course will help classroom practitioners to support children with expressive language disorder in the classroom.  

Explore good practice in puberty education for primary age children.   Explore what to teach and when, practical ideas for delivery and assessment, how to create a safe learning environment and strategies for answering children’s questions in an age-appropriate way.  Suitable for teachers of children in KS2.