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'𝐵𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔'.

The importance of checking yourself before tackling flashpoints | The Thrive Approach Changing the way we deal with behaviour incidents will help children build strong foundations for their learning, says Viv Trask-Hall

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Working with pupils who get angry... and you aren't sure what the triggers are?

According to research, there are 9 evolutionary triggers that are primed to fire off an anger response, that fit into the acronym LIFEMORTS.

Want to know more about these triggers - and how they apply in schools?

Listen to this week's School Behaviour Secrets, for FREE, using the link below 👇

LIFEMORTS: The Hidden Forces That Drive Student Behaviour Understanding Anger Triggers For Better Classroom Behaviour

Can LEGO® therapy provide a solution for children seeking support in social & emotional development?

In this episode of , we interview , a psychologist & expert in LEGO® therapy

Unlocking Social Skills: Exploring the Power of LEGO® Therapy with Gina Gomez de la Cuesta Creating Connections Brick by Brick

👍 If behaviour's making teaching an uphill battle, it's time to get unstuck... and the Inner Circle can help.

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Pathological demand avoidance: what is it and why do social workers need to know?

Pathological demand avoidance: what is it and why do social workers need to know? By Cathleen Long, Independent Social Worker Increasingly in my work, I’m coming across young people and adults whose presentations are complex – they might have a combination of autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyspraxia, hypermobility and dyslexia, to name a few. Whereas...

👂In this "podcast from the recent past", we talked to Dr. Stuart Shanker about the impact of stress on human behaviour and the secrets to self-regulation. Find out how reframing kids' behaviour means we're more likely to find solutions to challenging behaviour in the classroom.

Teaching Self-Regulation Skills In The Classroom (with Dr. Stuart Shanker) Here's what *really* causes behaviour difficulties in children.

Revisited: How to avoid confrontations with students by doing... nothing!

Discover how to avoid confrontations with students, by doing.....nothing!* Learn how to use take-up time when a student refuses to follow instructions or tries to draw you into an argument.

14 Neurodivergent Parenting Tips for ADHD Families

“The Best Neurodivergent Parenting Tips I’ve Ever Received Are…” What are the best neurodivergent parenting tips you’ve ever received? Here are 14 inspiring pieces of advice and wisdom from ADHD families.

Could Vitamin Supplementation Benefit Kids With ADHD?

Could Vitamin Supplementation Benefit Kids With ADHD? A new study suggests that vitamin supplements might be beneficial for children with ADHD.The study, published by the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), found …

'My ADHD fellows, stop seeing yourselves as broken and start noticing that, with attention deficit disorder, you have a superpower that is literally unstoppable...'

10 Things I Wish the World Knew About ADHD During ADHD Awareness Month, we asked ADDitude readers to share with us the (sometimes uncomfortable) truths about attention deficit disorder that they most wish the neurotypical world would understand and respect. Nearly 450 readers responded; here are some of the most poignant from adults with ADH...

The 3 biggest challenges facing schools and SENCOs around SEMH right now?

They are 👇

1. Recruitment and retention of skilled teachers, teaching assistants and pastoral staff to work with pupils with ever-higher SEMH needs.

2. Targeting the right intervention to support the right pupil at the right time. (Without all three aspects perfectly lined up, your SEMH input is unlikely to achieve success. It's about more than just what intervention you're using.)

3. Early identification - not just of children's needs, that's just the starting point, but of practical support strategies for teaching staff to actually use.

If we can address all three of the above in school, we can finally get some traction supporting our pupils with SEMH needs.

🤔 But... How do we get this right?

That's where you need the advice from an experienced, well-informed SENCO like Abigail Hawkins - also known as the SENsible SENCO.

And the answers - in all honesty - aren't going to fit into a social media post.

But... you can listen to my whole conversation with her for FREE in this week's School Behaviour Secrets podcast, where Abigail talks through these issues in detail... and explains what schools need to be doing to address them.

Follow this link to link for FREE:

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👉 School avoidance is a complex issue, but with the right strategies, you can make a real difference to your students' lives

Gain a deeper understanding of and discover strategies that can lead to student success.


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'𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝟣𝟦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒...'

What I wish all teachers could know... During my 14 years in the education system I experienced some incredible teachers who bent over backwards to make things work for me and oth...

𝑁𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝐷𝐻𝐷 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 - Click on the article to find out more...

The ADHD Symptoms That Complicate and Exacerbate a Math Learning Disability Nearly a third of children with ADHD also have a math learning disability. These conditions and other comorbidities, when present in the same patient, are never separate and distinct. Their symptoms impact and complicate one another in ways that educators and clinicians must take into account when d...

ADHD in Girls: The Symptoms That Are Ignored in Females

ADHD in Girls: The Symptoms That Are Ignored in Females Girls with ADHD — especially those with inattentive symptoms — are often drowned out by loud, hyperactive boys who demonstrate the condition's stereotypical behavior. Learn how to recognize the mistaken, misunderstood symptoms of ADHD or ADD in girls, and turn around this unfair unbalance for yo...

What emotional regulation is and how practicing can help from a cognitive skills perspective...

Why Practicing Can Help with Emotional Regulation In previous videos, we've discussed the idea of making plans and practicing those plans to prevent behaviors. In this video, Nate talks about what emotional ...

Here's a powerful, step-by-step technique for helping students who have difficulties with anger, but lack awareness of their own emotions.

You know - the sort of kids who don't know they're angry until it's too late.

👉 Draw the outline of a gingerbread man on a piece of paper
👉 Ask your student to identify where in their body they feel physically different when they get angry - get them to draw circles on the gingerbread to show this
👉 For some pupils it will be their head, or their stomach, or their fists - everyone's different so there's no right or wrong answer here
👉 Then spend some time talking about how it feels physically different

Now, when they're in class, and you see them looking unhappy or frustrated:

❌ Don't ask them, "Are you okay?"... because we've already established this pupil has difficulty sensing their emotions, and they may not actually know the answer.

✅ Instead, ask them, "How's you're head?" (Or stomach, or fists, or wherever they highlighted on their gingerbread man.)

⭐️ Because we know they have awareness of these physical sensations prior to an outburst.

Now you've got the information you need to be proactive and help them regulate if need be... before those feelings become too intense and you get an anger outburst.

This is just one strategy from my conversation with Nicola S. Morgan on the School Behaviour Secrets podcast this week. The interview is laser focused on helping kids manage their anger successfully in school (and life!)

So, if you're working with students with anger management issues, and want more in-depth strategies and insights, click here and listen for FREE 👇

https://beaconschoolsupport.co.uk/podcast/beyond-the-outburst-proactive-approaches-to-anger-management-in-schools

👉In this episode we interview director of Mindful Literacy - Laura Bean 😃

We discuss:
✔️How combining writing & mindfulness can support students
✔️Negative self talk- and what this means
✔️Practical ideas and strategies

Writing With Mindfulness: Nurturing Self-Compassion and Emotional Resilience in Students With Laura Bean Help improve student focus, self awareness and compassion right now!

Wouldn't it be wonderful, if children in your primary school spent their lunchtimes engaged in a range of fun and interactive playground games, that kept them active, occupied and happy? Here's everything you need to make that happen.

Problem-free Playtimes Fun, interactive games for primary school pupils

A trauma-sensitive, proactive plan for safely managing disruptive behaviour includes knowing when to call for support and how to help a student de-escalate.

How to Safely Manage a Student in Crisis A trauma-sensitive, proactive plan for safely managing disruptive behavior includes knowing when to call for support and how to help a student de-escalate.

ODD is reported to affect between 2-16% of children and adolescents in the general population, and is more common in boys. Studies show that at least 40 per cent of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have co-existing ODD...

Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Tips & Resources Oppositional Defiant Disorder - what is it? Dealing with oppositional defiant disorder in the classroom can be difficult but here's some tip

Using a different lens for neurodivergent children: Don’t treat them as younger - give them the tools to achieve...

Using a different lens for neurodivergent children: Don't treat them as younger, give them the tools to achieve - Special Needs Jungle Joanna Grace on why we should use a different lens for neurodivergent children: Don't treat them as younger, give them the tools to achieve

A teacher shares her best practices for establishing strong relationships with her class at the start of the school year.

6 Strategies for Building Better Student Relationships

There's a specific group of autistic pupils who tend to have their needs overlooked in schools - and the all have the same thing in common...

They're girls.

That's because they often mask their needs - meaning they watch their peers and mimic their behaviours to fit in - so they go "under the radar" in our classrooms.

But that doesn't mean they don't have to manage the same sensory, social, language and cognitive differences as boys.

The result can be low self-esteem, anxiety, self-harm, depression and worse.

So, in the classroom, it's important we don't take our student's behaviours at face value... and we develop tools and systems for identifying our pupils' needs, even when they're not immediately obvious to us.

That we learn to spot the kids who internalise as well as externalise their needs.

If you want to know more about the implications for schools, check out my interview with expert Nicola Durant, who shares her expertise both as a educational professional AND a parent of an autistic girl.

https://beaconschoolsupport.co.uk/podcast/the-power-of-understanding-recognising-underlying-needs-in-autistic-girls

This free guidebook helps teachers identify possible special needs early on, get the right professionals involved and even includes cheat sheets full of must-know strategies for autism, ADHD and attachment disorder.

📘 MUST-HAVE Resource For SENCOs And BECOs Get your FREE HANDBOOK to identifying and supporting children with behavioural special needs.

Falling Through the Cracks: How children with SEND struggle to access early years education...

Falling Through the Cracks: How children with SEND struggle to access early years education - Special Needs Jungle The current early years system is struggling to give children with SEND the best start, and unless action is taken this is only going to get worse. Catherine Mcleod from Dingley's Promise sets the changes causing concern.

Many people with ADHD experience rejection-sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and might not know how to cope with this experience. Learn about the RSD and ADHD connection.

What to Know About ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Tips for boosting pupil well being

Nurture rooms: how schools are boosting pupils’ wellbeing Scoil Mhuire in Wexford is using a new approach to address children’s social, emotional and behavioural needs. Many other schools are now following suit

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The benefits of exercise

Exercise and the ADHD Brain: The Neuroscience of Movement Research shows that physical activity sparks real, positive changes in the brain that increase attention and improve mood. What's more, exercise is an inexpensive, self-prescribed, and accessible supplemental treatment option for adults and children with ADHD.