Guest speaker: Weaving wellbeing into classroom practice
At a glance
Guest speaker
Alison Waterhouse
Webinar duration
2 hours
Suitable for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
CPD
Worth 5 CPD points
Price per place
£75 excl. VAT
Course Outcomes
‘Weaving wellbeing into classroom practice’ is worth 5 CPD points to Thrive Licensed Practitioners.
By the end of the session, you'll have:
- Top tips for developing a safe space that enables children to feel that they belong
- Actionable techniques for promoting relationships within the classroom
- Strategies that support children and young people to flourish and learn within the classroom
- Activities that support both learning and wellbeing
You'll also get access to a selection of free resources, including:
- Lesson plans to help develop a sense of belonging and support the link between thinking, feeling and behaviour
- Self-regulation support for children: Build a Regulation Station in your classroom
- Behaviour reflection sheet
- Self care for staff - personal audit and self-care plan
- Book list for KS1 and KS2 supporting conversations and work around
Who is it for?
Thrive Licensed Practitioners from primary and secondary settings.
Introducing guest speaker: Alison Waterhouse
Alison has worked with children with additional educational needs for the past 25 years in both mainstream and the private sector. Initially, she trained as a special needs teacher and has worked in a variety of schools and educational settings.
Alison set up and developed an independent therapeutic special school, gaining full DfES registration and a reputation for excellence within the fields of education and therapeutic work. Alison then went on to act as an educational consultant for an independent therapeutic fostering agency, overseeing the education of children placed within their care. She developed a range of training packages for foster carers and staff. Alison returned to work in a large mainstream primary school as SENCO and teacher in charge of the social and emotional wellbeing of the whole school community. This involved working with children and young people, supporting and working with parents, coaching and mentoring staff including work discussion groups for TAs and team leaders.
Alison now works as an educational psychotherapist and wellbeing adviser for schools. She has been involved in staff training for Young Minds, worked with the schools engagement team at the Anna Freud Centre and works as an adviser for the Optimus Wellbeing Schools Award.
For the past 10 years, Alison has been developing and researching the impact of the the Circles for Learning Project. Circles for Learning focuses on supporting schools develop the knowledge and understanding of teachers around mental health and wellbeing as well as delivering a unique wellbeing project to classrooms. The project focuses on developing the five essential areas that lay positive foundations for emotional wellbeing by bringing together a parent and their young child with a class of KS1-KS3 pupils once a month for a whole year. This amazing experience allows children to watch relationships as they unfold, observe and explore emotions and their link to thinking and behaviour, see learning in action and understand how our sense of self develops. All the areas that research has shown underpin positive mental health and wellbeing.
What you'll learn
In this 2-hour webinar for primary and secondary school staff and leaders, Alison Waterhouse will explore how to support the mental health of children and young people by raising awareness, reducing stigma and supporting mental health issues.
Mental health-friendly classrooms enable professionals to support pupils to develop the skills needed for positive mental health and wellbeing before difficulties arise, as well as supporting children with a mental health diagnosis or those who have experienced trauma. By creating an environment that supports mental health and wellbeing and ensuring educators have the knowledge and understanding they need, we can ensure that children learn and flourish both now, and in the future.
Course structure
2-hour webinar.