Nurture isn’t a room, restorative isn’t just a set of questions, kindness isn’t weakness and exclusion isn’t a behaviour strategy

Understanding calm/relaxed isn't always the most appropriate state.

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'My breathing gets slower when I hold the chickens ❤️'

Looking through the weekly newsletter photos thinking, how incredibly lucky we are to have such incredible staff, who think up the most exciting, relational learning opportunities every week.

Ruth Perry Inquest Day One The first day of witness evidence has produced some devastating testimony. I will do my best to give you a sense of the day. Apologies for the length of this thread. There is a lot to get through and honestly, too much for this platform…

Their first ever live performance. We can’t even begin to express how proud we are of these young people! Seeing how the older children supported the younger children through co-regulation and attunement. Modelling the model. #therapeuticschool

The biggest barrier to student achievement is the fact that we have defined achievement for young people as doing better than their peers. It’s not possible for them all to succeed when succeed means ‘do better than the others’.

A fantastic Christmas party. We started as a small team of 10 and have grown to an amazing team of 25! 💫💕

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Today was hard. Trying avoid emergency placements on the last day of Christmas term.Staff volunteering to go over and above to support. I feel very lucky and very sad in equal measures. ❤️

Yep, Standard! 😂❤️

When we say we’re a family, we really mean it. Mixed aged learning/family grouping working it’s magic. ❤️

So many of our children are worried what happens to them at 18 and often say we just need a little bit longer to make sense of things. Our message is always… we’re here as long as you need us to be. ❤️

What should we do about attendance? Here’s a pathway I hear way too often. Child manages primary school fine, is happy there and excited to go to secondary school. They start, bright eyed and bushy tailed, and like many eleven-year-olds they find the transition hard. It’s a big

Favourite ever birthday message. The most unheadteacher headteacher, you’ll ever meet! 😂

This is money from school budgets. Every primary has had to purchase a phonics program…government and Ofsted have enforced it.

Do you fancy joining this group of fabulous people! Do you like a challenge? Can you stay calm under pressure? Do you like to have fun but work hard? Then you’d fit in well here…. SEN Teaching Assistant g.co/kgs/koPYwX1

Our sunshine ☀️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #worcesterwaddle