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SUMMARY:Trauma Informed Education Pt 2
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday 7 June at 5.30pm – 6.30pm for the LEARN LIVE webinar ‘Trauma Informed Education Pt 2’\nJoin a two part series regarding trauma informed education. Trauma has a significant impact on the lives and learning of young people. As an educator\, our understanding of trauma is crucial if we are to meet the needs of the students we work with. Unpicking the impact of trauma is crucial and exploring the strategies you can utilise to best meet the needs of young people. As an educator\, you will not be able to reverse the trauma but you can certainly create a learning environment and offer tailored support in order that supports the students you encounter. It could make all the difference to their educational and personal development.  \nWe will be joined by Louise Egan who is an experienced Clinical Psychologist and Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy with over 16 years experience. Louise has delivered training to multidisciplinary professionals in statutory and independent services over the past 16 years. Louise currently works as a Director of Clinical Excellence and Safeguarding Lead at Hello Self.  \n  \n<\n\n \n\n\nRegister now
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/trauma-informed-education-pt-2/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health,Teacher Training
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SUMMARY:Making a difference for children with SEMH: How to create a culture of wellbeing and provide targeted intervention
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday 4 May at 5pm – 6pm for the LEARN LIVE webinar ‘Making a difference for children with SEMH: How to create a culture of wellbeing and provide targeted intervention.\n‘\nIn this session Clare discusses the need for qualitative\, targeted SEMH provision and programmes to support the 1 in 6 children with mental health needs. (NHS Digital 2021).  \nHow do we support children to manage in a learning context when they are struggling with their social and emotional development and mental health? How do we support children to express\, understand and be able to regulate their feelings and experiences in order to manage in the learning environment and how do we equip the SEN and pastoral adults to feel confident to support the children in their care who have mental health and behaviour needs in a system where external services are stretched? \nThe session will highlight: \n•	The context for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing\n•	Whole school culture and how to ensure wellbeing is central through policy and practice.\n•	The vital need for qualitative and targeted intervention that centres around social and emotional development and acquisition of skills for life and learning.\n•	A comprehensive wellbeing intervention programme that offers creative activities\, supporting resources and impact measurement tools. \nAbout Hamish & Milo \nHamish & Milo is a comprehensive and detailed resource that offers the language and creative activities to support SEN and pastoral staff to know what to say and how to help primary-aged children to express and regulate themselves. The whole programme offers a set of ten different wellbeing intervention packs that focus on key emotional themes: friendship\, resilience\, anxiety\, diversity\, angry feelings\, change\, conflict\, loss\, sadness and self-esteem. Each of the programmes consist of detailed session plans delivered weekly over a term and provide all supporting materials and impact measurement tools. \nClare Williams					 \nClare is a primary teacher and educational psychotherapist\, author\, speaker and advocate for children’s mental health and wellbeing. \nClare has worked in primary schools\, mental health and education provision and within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She has led on national initiatives for local authorities as the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) Consultant\, leading on training\, curriculum implementation and development as well as the local coordination of the National PSHE CPD programme.  \nShe was a consultant trainer for the Institute of Education\, London\, and a trainer for the Education Development Association at Homerton College\, Cambridge\, providing courses for overseas teachers. \nAs the manager of a multi-agency service for vulnerable children at risk of exclusion\, Clare developed Thrive Education Zones\, an alternative provision based on nurture principles.\nThrough this work she became all too aware of the impact adverse childhood experiences can have on children and their long-term mental health. \nClare was co-author and co-creator of the Jigsaw PSHE programme and author of Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK) Rainbow Pathway: Return to school programme\, resources to support children through the experience of the pandemic. She has worked therapeutically with children and families and as a Wellbeing Therapist for Total Children’s Therapy and was the Strategic Mental Health Lead and Consultant for stormbreak\, a charity supported by BBC Children in Need that centres on mentally healthy movement. Clare was central in developing the mental health content within their programmes. Clare is a Senior Trainer\, Consultant and Supervisor for TISUK and leads on delivery of the TISUK diploma. \n\n  \nRegister now
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/making-a-difference-for-children-with-semh-how-to-create-a-culture-of-wellbeing-and-provide-targeted-intervention/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health,SEND
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SUMMARY:Trauma Informed Education Pt 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday 8 March at 5.30pm – 6.30pm for the LEARN LIVE webinar ‘Trauma Informed Education Pt 1’\nJoin a two part series regarding trauma informed education. Trauma has a significant on the lives and learning of young people. As an educator\, our understanding of trauma is crucial if we are to meet the needs of the students we work with. Unpicking the impact of trauma is crucial and exploring the strategies you can utilise to best meet the needs of young people. As an educator\, you will not be able to reverse the trauma but you can certainly create a learning environment and offer tailored support in order that supports the students you encounter. It could make all the difference to their educational and personal development.  \nWe will be joined by Louise Egan who is an experienced Clinical Psychologist and Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy with over 16 years experience. Louise has delivered training to multidisciplinary professionals in statutory and independent services over the past 16 years. Louise currently works as a Director of Clinical Excellence and Safeguarding Lead at Hello Self.  \n  \n<\n\n \n\n\nRegister now
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/trauma-informed-education-pt-1/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health,Teacher Training
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SUMMARY:Trauma Informed Practice
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday 13 February at 4pm – 5pm for the LEARN LIVE webinar ‘Trauma Informed Practice’\nTrauma has a significant on the lives and learning of young people. As an educator\, our understanding of trauma is crucial if we are to meet the needs of the students we work with. Trauma informed practice is an area of specialism for our guest\, Lucy Coy. Lucy is an experienced school leaders and currently the CEO of HT Chat. Join us to enhance your understanding of this area. It could make all the difference to your practice and in turn\, the lives of the young people you work with. \n\n  \nRegister now
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/trauma-informed-practice/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Mental Health Awareness in Schools
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday 3 October at 6pm – 7pm for the LEARN LIVE webinar ‘An introduction to Mental Health Awareness in schools’\nDo you need to know more about the mental health of your students? \nMental Health awareness is crucial in schools. As educators\, we often spend more time with the children we teach or care for\, than any other significant adult. Being aware of the signs\, symptoms and support that we can offer our young people is imperative. \nHear from the experts \nIn this session we will hear from Mr Kevin Egan and Dr Louise Egan. They will be sharing their expertise and experiences so that you can support the young people you work with to the best of your ability. \nRegister now for what will be a fascinating evening. \n  \nRegister now\n  \nWant to know more?\nWhy should you join the webinar: \n· The prevalence of mental health difficulties in children is rising at an alarming rate within the context of a global physical and mental health pandemic. \n· There are not enough specialist services and resources to meet increasing need. \n· Schools are expected to meet the complex social\, emotional\, behavioural\, developmental and safeguarding needs of those they educate and support within the context of an under resourced social welfare system. \n· Enhance your knowledge and skills to support the mental health needs of children in school. \n· Children need to be socially and emotionally secure to make best use of their learning\, enhancing your knowledge and skills in how to support positive emotional wellbeing may help children to reach their academic potential as every child rightly deserves. \n· There is an emotional impact to caring for others. Who cares for you? We’ll help you care for you too. \n· The trainers are senior specialists with extensive experience working in primary and secondary schools; special educational needs and NHS/independent/charitable mental health services across the age range. \n· Present a unique balance of clinical and classroom knowledge and skills. \n· They are compassionate\, relatable and highly engaging trainers with outstanding training feedback. \n  \nWhat you’ll get out of it: \n• Knowledge of the importance of a systems and whole school approach to understanding and supporting mental health needs. \n• Insight & appreciation of the importance of your own and your colleagues’ psychological wellbeing. \n• Knowledge of the common presentations and causes of a wide range of mental health difficulties of primary and secondary school aged children \n• Attachment issues\, Anxiety\, Trauma\, Depression\, Low self esteem\, Self-Harm\, Suicidal thinking/behaviour\, Eating Disorders and Grief/loss. \n• Understanding of how to enlist the help of statutory agencies and work jointly in partnership. \n• Knowledge and skills in supporting the mental health needs of children in school. \n• Reminder of Ofsted’s framework regarding personal development/emotional wellbeing. \n  \nHow it might help their practice: \n· Strengthen confidence in your ability to identify and support children with mental health needs. \n· Take home practical skills and resources to implement straight away in the classroom. \n· Enhance your own self care in order to best care for others. \n  \nRegister now
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/an-introduction-to-mental-health-awareness-in-schools/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Stress Expressed with Steve Carr
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n\n\n\n\nThe value to mental health of simply sharing our thoughts \nThe value of talking circles for teachers cannot be overestimated. Teachers need to be able to think clearly. They deal in transferring knowledge from their minds into the minds of those they teach. More importantly\, they do this most successfully when they navigate the maelstrom of emotions they encounter in every classroom and create connected relationships with pupils. These relationships need to be as free as they can be from any negative debris. \n  \nTalking about our challenges and verbalising our feelings to friends has been a source of relief for centuries. \nStudies show that simply talking about our problems and sharing our negative emotions with people we trust can profoundly reduce stress\, and strengthen our immune system. (Pennebaker\, Kiecolt-Glaser\, & Glaser\, 1988). We can also experience a healing effect by simply noting and labelling our emotions (sad\, angry\, confused\, ashamed\, scared). By naming our more negative feelings\, we can watch them fade from our minds. We can become more mindful\, centred\, and at peace (Lieberman et al\, 2007). \nNeuroscience studies by Lieberman et. al. (2007) and Vago and Silbersweig (2012) have found that labelling our feelings reduces activation in the amygdala\, our brain’s alarm system that triggers the fight-or-flight reaction. \nWhen we give words to our emotions\, we move away from limbic reactivity by activating those parts of the brain that deal with language and meaning in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (Lieberman et al\, 2007). \nWe become less reactive\, more mindfully aware and more able to think clearly. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou have been invited to join Steve on Tuesday 9th March from 5pm – 6:30pm. \nPlease register your attendance below: \n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/stress-expressed-steve-carr-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Mental Health,Wellbeing
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SUMMARY:Whole School Mental Health & Wellbeing - Best Practice Q&A panel
DESCRIPTION:We know that better mental health and wellbeing in a school results in better academic outcomes\, reduces staff absence and turn over and can reduce pressure on external services.   \nAbout this Event\nThis webinar will consider how schools can start to embed a whole school approach to Mental Health and wellbeing\, how they can make the changes meaningful\, measure the impact and make a difference to the whole community.  It will give attendees a variety of actions to start the ball rolling in their school\, help them to build a business case for a whole school approach and enable them to understand what it means to create a whole-school approach. \nWhole School Mental Health and Wellbeing looks different in every school.  Three mental health leads from 3 very different schools which have been recognised for their excellent provision are coming together to discuss best practice in secondary schools.  This will be an interactive session and the audience are encouraged to ask questions of the panel \n  \nLucinda Powell (Host)\nLucinda Powell supports teachers to use evidenced-based psychology in all aspects of their classroom practice. She has a BSc in Philosophy and Psychology\, an MA in Special and Inclusive education is a qualified teacher and taught psychology from 2002-2017.  Since September 2017 she has been working as an Education Consultant specialising in mental health and wellbeing but is now focusing on how to apply psychology to classroom practice.  As well as presenting at numerous conferences and running staff training in schools\,  she has worked closely with the AnDY Clinic at Reading University\, as a coach on the School Mental Health Award at the Carnegie School of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools and leads the Oxfordshire Schools mental health and wellbeing network and is course author and associate lecturer for ITT at Coventry University.  As a mother of 3 boys\, the eldest (16) of whom has ADHD & ASC and youngest (12) of whom is severely dyslexic\, she has plenty of personal experience of supporting young people through their school career. \n  \nDelyth Lynch – Deputy Head (Safeguarding and Mental Health)\, Wellington College\nDelyth has been on the Senior Leadership Team at Wellington College for 10 years\, having previously been Deputy Head (Pastoral). This followed a long career in boarding as a Director of Extra-Curricular activities and Housemistress at two schools. \nIn 2018 she was awarded the BSA Research Fellowship; Delyth conducted her research on ‘Abuse in Boarding Schools\, probing into an area where there was little research or literature available. Her paper won the National Research Award (2019). Her innovative work in the pastoral education of parents saw her winning the TES ‘Boarding Initiative of the Year’ award (2016) and in 2020 the inaugural Wellington College ‘Community Mental Health Day’ was recognised with them winning the BSA ‘Wellbeing and Mental Health Initiative of the Year’. Wellington College currently holds the Gold Status in School Mental Health through the Carnegie Centre of Excellence. \nDelyth is the Safeguarding Governor and Vice Chair of Governors at a local school\, leads the Local Independent Schools DSL cluster group and sits on the BSA South East Safeguarding Forum. In her spare time she enjoys running around with her 4 year old daughter and triathlon. \n  \nRob Vaughan\nRob qualified with B.Ed (hons) in Primary PE\, after 5 years in the classroom in one of the most deprived areas of Merseyside\, he became the Partnership Development Manager/Advisory Teacher of PE for 6 Secondary\, 28 Primary and 5 SEN schools in the St Helens School Sport Partnerships. During this period\, the partnership won 4 national awards for his work utilising sport as a tool to motivate pupils with barriers to learning. The partnership was also the first in the country to have an entire cluster of SEN schools. \nAfter 9 years in this role and a great deal of success working with SEN\, Rob decided to move back into the classroom to work alongside SEMH students who had been permanently excluded. Whilst in this role he started to focus more on supporting child mental health prior to crisis\, rather than dealing with behaviour at crisis.  \nAfter 2 years back in the classroom Rob was offered the role of Head of Tuition Services\, within Alternative Provision to support a unit of 17 students struggling with medical and/or complex needs. Within five years this unit has grown to accommodate 35 students with a variety of medical and complex needs that have prevented them from accessing mainstream education. \n  \nZelia Munnik\nZelia started her teaching career in the UK in 2006 after relocating from South Africa. She spent a couple of years as Head of Geography whilst completing her SENCO Award at Roehampton University. She jumped at the opportunity to join the Senior Leadership team at Epsom and Ewell High School as Inclusion Lead and quickly developed strategies and procedures for ensuring rapid progress for all students with disabilities.  She has a passion for changing the lives of young people and in 2013 stepped in as Headteacher of Pyrcroft Grange primary school. During her time at Pyrcroft\, the school was acknowledged as the most improved primary school in Surrey and moved from the lowest-performing school in Surrey to the 2nd highest achieving school within 3 years. Zelia wanted to broaden her experience as a Headteacher and when the opportunity came to start a new Free School\, she could not resist. She set up Chertsey High School in 2017 and continues to strive for better life chances for the children in Chertsey. The school’s strapline of ‘Enlightening minds; changing lives’ is what she lives by and therefore Mental Health plays a core part of everyday decisions and practice at Chertsey High.  \nJoin us on 2 December 2020\, at 4:30pm. \nRegister Now\n  \n 
URL:https://community.opogo.com/event/whole-school-mental-health-wellbeing-best-practice-qa-panel/
CATEGORIES:EdBook,Mental Health,Wellbeing
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