So many Golds again this week! Ben and Hayden for their continued indoor climbing effort, Alyssa for her hard work all week, Leighton for learning butterfly leg kick in swimming and all of 1J for their amazing story writing about Thor! Great job!!!

When you only listen to the smartest person in the room, you miss out on discovering what the rest of the room is smart about. Everyone you meet knows something you don’t—and has wisdom from experiences you haven’t lived. Every conversation is a chance to learn something new.

Never a truer word, was said...

Behaviour management is not about the young people, behaviour management is about the adults. A regulated calm adult can regulate a dysregulated anxious child. But a dysregulated adult can never regulate a dysregulated child.They need to be met in their nervous system states.🧠

"If you feel safe and loved, your brain becomes specialised in exploration, play, and cooperation; if you are frightened and unwanted, it specializes in managing feelings of fear and abandonment."🧠 —Bessel van der Kolk #brainscience #traumainformed

Michael Rosen highlights the impact Covid has had on children & young people. Loss isn't only experienced through bereavement & separation, conceptual losses- the loss of safety, of freedom to act or an inability to mark key events need to be grieved too. ow.ly/4huO50GIaSB

Learning cannot happen in schools unless our young people have had their most psychological needs met.🧠🌱

The impact of just one year as her teacher!

Relationships should be built before any curriculum is taught. Be a dopamine singer and drip feed positive recognition into our young people's emotional currency bank.🧠 🌱

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. Sigmund Freud 🧠🌱

What a fabulous idea....

I will be picking a school to receive 16 free student delegate places at your setting for the OFQUAL Youth Mental Health First Aid Qualification. One day course. Age 14+ only. To enter, just follow, retweet and like this post. I will announce winning school on 28th March at 8pm.

So important to get this right...

Youngest kid has just finished a term at the PRU (for challenging behaviour). His reading has improved by over a year since Easter 😱 It's almost like putting a child in a situation where they are supported and can better regulate themselves, improves their ability to learn? ;)

#Lionesses ❤️

The webinar held yesterday led by the Lead Behaviour Advisor on “Behaviour in Schools” left many questioning why the “new guidance” failed to offer any new evidence-based practices or real solutions to anything at all really! ticservicesltd.com/2023/11/14/reb… #edutwitter #education

This is so important and no where near the standard practice that it should be for all Ed staff...

Huge congratulations to Riley for winning 1st prize in the SEND senior category of the Write Stuff story competition at the Guernsey Literary Festival!

Super proud of these amazing young people! Well done Jess, Leighton, Tom, Drew and Lennon gsy.bailiwickexpress.com/gsy/news/les-v…

Proud is an understatement!