Nurtureuk

🤔 What would we feel like in their shoes?
🤔 How is this person feeling? And how can we tell?
🤔 Can this situation be ‘put right’? What might help?

Empathy is a work-in-progress throughout childhood. These phrases can be helpful in bringing empathy to the surface 💭

🚨 Early Bird Pricing Ends Soon! 🚨

50% off the new Boxall Profile® Online Transition Passport feature ends March 31st. Join hundreds of teachers already using the tool and streamline pupil support during critical moments of change.

This offer disappears forever next month. Secure your discounted Transition Passport today!

https://boxallprofile.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/17489090940060-Purchasing-the-Boxall-Profile-Online-Transition-Passport

Education Today’s SENCO of The Year is speaking at our next members' event!

👩‍🏫 Lucy has been teaching for 23 years with the last 15 of these as a SENCO and currently as Director of Learning Support at Homewood School while also leading SEND developments within the Tenterden Schools Trust.

🤗 Lucy is actively involved with reviewing and developing SEND provision at a District and County level. She has a keen interest and involvement in developing CPD training and support materials for mainstream teachers and SENCOs.

🎤 Lucy also enjoys sharing her experiences through presenting at national conferences and webinars with a focus on enhanced mainstream provision and quality Primary to Secondary transition for students with SEND.

Next week, Lucy will be joining our Member event: Creating a Nurturing Environment

Join us! https://www.nurtureuk.org/member-events/

The transformative power of nurture ✨

The Mulberry Bush Nurturing Schools project implemented a whole-school approach to nurture in five primary schools over two years.

Over the course of the two-year project each participating school received:
🌟 Funding for a nurture group and resources including Boxall Profile® Online
🌟 Whole-school staff training on attachment theory, emotion coaching, and more
🌟 Regular professional supervision from an educational psychologist
🌟 Professional supervision of a family support worker

The outcomes for the schools, teachers, and pupils were overwhelmingly positive.

The findings have now been published in the latest volume of The International Journal of Nurture in Education - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wr4pu5e_RFvfzWPyp_nSs2EhIPjM34oI/view?usp=sharing

We all have the capacity for empathy, but it must be nurtured and developed in children 💗

We can help children by...
💬 Building emotional vocabulary - "I can see your frustrated by this activity"
🌟 Practicing random acts of kindness
🤔 Interpreting expressions and body language
📖 Reading books to understand different characters' feelings
🥰 Being an empathy role model
🎭 Using role play, re-enact a situation and explore different perspectives

How do you encourage empathy in children?

Our next training on nurture groups takes place online on March 19th - join us!

Our expert practitioner will cover:
🌟 The theoretical framework underpinning nurture groups and nurturing approaches
🌟 The Six Principles of Nurture
🌟 The relevance of early childhood experiences on learning, development, and wellbeing
🌟 Attachment theory and neuroscience
🌟 The Boxall Profile®
and much more!

Plus, workbooks and free resources to takeaway! Note: this is a three-day course beginning on March 19th.

The Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups - nurtureuk The Theory and Practice of Nurture Groups: Gain practical skills to support children's emotional development. Join our training programme!

60 Sensory Minutes 👐 Now on sale in our shop.

For a limited time, we're offering 10% off ALL publications, including this one! Get activity cards and a user guide to help develop sensory skills in mainstream classrooms and nurture groups.

Explore all our discounted resources: https://www.nurtureuk.org/shop/

How do you create a nurturing environment in schools?

Safe and supportive spaces are essential for children and young people to succeed emotionally, physically, and academically 🚀

These are some great features we've seen work in nurture rooms and mainstream settings:
🌟 Cosy, calm, and quiet
🌟 Well-staffed
🌟 ‘Nurture nooks’ within classrooms
🌟 Zones of regulation
🌟 Worry boxes
🌟 Sensory activities, like play dough and fidget toys
🌟 Unkindness forms

Do you have any to add? 👇

Don't miss our next Members' event all about how to go about creating a nurturing environment. Join us online 18 March, 3.30 - 5.00pm https://www.nurtureuk.org/member-events/

Today is National Offer Day 🌱

This is the day when Year 6 pupils across the country find out which school they'll be attending in September. The transition from Primary to Secondary School is a huge change for children, even for the most resilient and well-adjusted among them.

Imagine the change through the children's eyes 💭
🚶First, an unfamiliar route to school. The risk of getting lost and being late.
🏫 You arrive to a new and confusing environment that you don't know how to navigate
👋 There are more pupils, more staff, more subjects, more demands
📚 There is new work to get to grips with, and a much more complex timetable to manage
🍕 At breaktimes, you don't know what you're supposed to do, or where to go
😓 Plus, you've lost your peer networks and have to start building new ones
🆘 You don't know where to seek help if you need it

However, there is a lot that schools, teachers, parents, and pupils themselves can start doing now to make that transition a little easier and alleviate some pressure.

Our Transition Tool Box is available on our Shop, currently 10% off 👀 https://www.nurtureuk.org/product/transition-tool-box/

SALE! 🛍️ 10% off ALL publications in our shop. Including this one, 60 Mindful Minutes, with activity cards and a user guide to encourage mindful behaviour in children and young people.

Get shopping:

Fantastic first meeting of the APPG on Inclusion and Nurture in Education this week!

It was a privilege to hear from Swabra Lloyd of Forest Academy primary school in Croydon and Andrea MacDonald of Beacon High School in Islington, whose passionate words brought to life the huge difference inclusion and nurture practice has made for their children, families and staff.

We're honoured to be providing the secretariat for this vital APPG and delighted to join forces with Sarah Hall MP, Darren Mott OBE, Marie Goldman - Chelmsford, Vikki Slade, and many others, to champion inclusion and nurture, and create a sense of belonging for all children in school.

As our Chief Exec Arti Sharma shared at the meeting, nurture must become the norm if we are going to help our children succeed.

Thank you to Lib Peck, CJ Burge, Sharon White DFIFIP, Tony Doran and James Roach for their valuable contributions to a great discussion, we look forward to continuing our work together.

"I have witnessed first-hand the transformative power of the nurturing approach in our schools."

Our journal is at the forefront of nurture research. Volume 10 is now ready for you.

Articles include:
📰 the impact of nurture groups as seen by the children themselves
📰 a deep dive into behaviour as communication
and more.

Read it now: https://www.nurtureuk.org/journal/volume-10/

Why is play disappearing? 🛝

According to the Raising the Nation Play Commission, children are increasingly unhappy and unhealthy, with less time outdoors with friends, and more time in front of screens 😵‍💫

Plus, there are more and more barriers to play, such as:
⛔playground closures
⛔shorter school break times
⛔streets unsuitable for play
⛔lack of gardens
⛔‘No Ball Games’ signs
⛔lack of play-based learning in curriculum

Play is essential to children's social and emotional development, growing life skills such as problem-solving, communication, self-regulation, and resilience.

We support the Raising the Nation Play Commission and their recommendations to the government. Their interim report is available now.

NEW MEMBER EVENT! 🔔

This time on the importance of creating a nurturing environment on a physical, social and academic level 🤗

Secure your membership from as little as £10 a year, and never miss an event again!

nurtureuk member events Become a nurtureuk member and gain access to exclusive member events full of advice, community, and discussion around nurture in schools.

It’s Emotional Health Week! 🎢 Hosted by our colleagues at The Centre for Emotional Health, it’s a time to recognise the importance of emotional health for us all.

Watch their animation to find out what Emotional Health is and why it
matters. 📽 https://youtu.be/T5teZJCgw04

You can find out more about the week and get involved here: https://www.centreforemotionalhealth.org.uk/emotional-health/emotional-health-week/

Emotional Health Week - The Centre for Emotional Health The next Emotional Health Week is 24th to 28th February 2025.

School exclusions can impact children for life ⛔

"They're not naughty; they just need to learn differently"
This what one member of staff says about the pupils attending a school in Grimsby known as the “naughty school.”

Of the 63 young people that attend the school, most have been permanently excluded or at risk of suspension from mainstream schools.

Exclusions disproportionately impact children with disabilities or mental health conditions, children living in poverty, and children from marginalised communities.

💡 This school is helping pupils turn their lives around through a foundation of social, emotional, and mental health support.

"It's said it's the naughty school, but it's not, it's here to help you.” - previous pupil

'Park House School in Grimsby has turned our lives around' Park House School is making a difference to pupils who have struggled in mainstream education.

Do you live and breath the nurture mission? Looking to join a board?

We're on the look out for an inspiring new Chair to provide leadership to the Board and Trustees, and help guide our mission and vision 💡

More info:

Nurole | - Chair As the Chair of nurtureuk is coming to the end of their term, the charity is looking to appoint an inspiring new Chair. This person will bring strong leadership and relationship-building experience whilst having empathy, diplomacy and gravitas to inspire those around them. They will be innovative, c...