Training and events by the Virtual School
Summer 2024
For: Designated Teachers and Staff in Secondary Schools
In this training you will be supported to look at barriers to school attendance, through a child-centred developmental lens and to consider the systems around the child and whether, in reality, they help or hinder attendance.
• Why attending school matters – looking beyond DfE guidance.
• Reasons for poor attendance – identifying and interpreting EBSA.
• Known barriers to improving attendance – Risk and resilience factors.
• Interventions and strategies to support - including policy and practice considerations.
• Known additional risk factors – being pre-emptive and pro-active.
• Action planning for your role or setting – resources and services signposting.
Date and Time
4 July 2024
4pm-6pm
Zoom
How to Book
Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) - For Secondary School Staff
Autumn 2024
For: Designated teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools
In this training you will be supported to look at barriers to school attendance, through a child-centred developmental lens and to consider the systems around the child and whether, in reality, they help or hinder attendance.
- Why attending school matters – looking beyond DFE guidance.
- Reasons for poor attendance – identifying and interpreting EBSA.
- Interventions and strategies to support - including policy and practice considerations.
- Known additional risk factors – being pre-emptive and pro-active.
- Action planning for your role or setting – resources and services signposting.
Date and time
11 September 2024
3:30pm-5:30pm
Zoom
How to book
Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) - for primary and secondary school staff
For: School Staff
Working with children who have experienced trauma can be stressful. This session explains why this workplace stress arises, specifically out of working with childhood trauma. It enables learners to identify their own personal resources to reduce vulnerability and promote resilience, and to understand how to create strong networks to maintain the wellbeing of everyone in the workforce. Understanding and awareness of secondary trauma and how it may bring about workplace stress can be improved for the wellbeing of all. Secondary trauma and workplace stress doesn’t have to feature. Our session course explains why and how to reduce the risks to staff teams.
This session will cover:
- Emotional trauma
- Identifying secondary traumatic stress
- The signs and indicators of secondary stress
- How to develop self-care
- How to recover from secondary trauma
Date and time
14 November 2024
3:30 to 5:30pm
Zoom
How to book
For: Designated Teachers
This virtual training covers:
- Background of PEPs and why they are important
- Focus on Pupil voice including ways to collect
- Targets
- Transitions
- Emotional health/wellbeing
Date and time
03/10/2024
10:00 am to 12:30pm
Teams
How to Book
For: Designated Teachers
This virtual training covers:
- Background of PEPs and why they are important
- Focus on Pupil voice including ways to collect
- Targets
- Transitions
- Emotional health/wellbeing
Date and time
10 October 2024
1:00pm to 3:30pm
Teams
How to book
Communication for Positive Behaviours (Nursery/Primary)
For: Designated Teachers and Staff in Early Years Settings and Primary Schools
The course will look at some of the challenging behaviour being displayed post COVID and some of the reasons for that. How best to work effectively with pupils to benefit the learning for all. The session will be a balance of trauma/neuroscience theory and practical strategies. The session will include
- Values – what is priority?
- COVID – Perfect storm or final big wave?
- Windows of tolerance and why children leave it
- Origins of behaviour
- Co-regulation
- Validating emotions
- Sequential Approach
Date and time
3 December 2024
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Zoom
How to book
For: Designated teachers and staff in secondary schools and further education establishments
The course will look at the barriers our young people face when they start their secondary journeys. Looking at the impact COVID has had on behaviour in secondary, getting the balance of systems and relationships right and challenging ideas around persistent disruptive behaviour.
The session will include
- Social Discipline Window
- COVID - Perfect storm or final big wave?
- Windows of tolerance and why children get stuck in loops
- Emotion coaching
- Building self-esteem, resilience
- Persistent disruptive behaviour – Is it choice?
- Internal versus external control, are we teaching independence?
Date and time
4 December 2024
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
For: School Staff
Please note this is A 2- day course. You must attend both days. Do you have children or young people in your school or setting who struggle with their behaviour, their attendance, or their focus in lessons. This may be because of underpinning mental health and emotional wellbeing needs. Many interventions or support focuses on the child or young person but we would like to introduce you to an innovative programme called Youth Connect 5 which supports the parents and carers. The Lancashire Virtual School is offering fully funded Youth Connect 5 training to professionals who will then deliver 5 week training programmes to groups of parents and carers, teaching and having discussions with them around:
Understanding young people’s mental health
- Thinking about what makes us thrive
- Developing family resilience
- Understanding why we feel the way we do
- Developing skills to support their children The aims of the course are to:
- Give parents and carers the knowledge, empathy, skills and tools to promote resilience and wellbeing for children and young people
- Strengthen parent’s and children’s resilience
- Increase confidence and parental ability to support their child
- Improve parent/child relationship
As a professional trained in the delivery of Youth Connect 5, you will obtain additional knowledge and skills in mental wellbeing as well as training delivery, supporting your own CPD and the organisation’s strengths. In addition to this, in general your own health and wellbeing may also be improved. We know that many in the workforce will also be parents/carers who themselves will experience challenging times as a parent. For further information on Youth Connect 5, please visit the website: https://youthconnect5.org.uk Day 1: Monday 23 September 2024 Day 2 Monday 30 September 2024
Dates & times
23 September 2024 & 30 September 2024
All Day
In Person
How to book
Youth Connect 5 - supporting the emotional wellbeing of young people - 2 Day Course
For: School Staff
Home Office figures show that there were 5,242 applications in 2022 from unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the UK. Lone asylum seeking children are more likely to have experienced higher exposure to war combat, trauma and torture than those who arrived in the country with the adults responsible for them. The difficulties ensuing from years of fleeing their home communities because of war, persecution or organised violence are multifaceted and complex. This session focuses on these issues and provides some examples of how school staff can help support these children and young people. This session will cover:
- Useful language
- Why children leave their countries and seek asylum
- The journey to the UK
- Age assessments
- Child trafficking
- How you can help
Date: 06/11/2024
Time: 3.30pm to 5.30pm
Via Zoom
How to book
Supporting Asylum and Refugee children
For: Designated Teachers & Designated Safeguarding Leads
Have an understanding of education legislation and practice in England. Have an increased awareness of educational outcomes for adopted children and young people and also children with a social worker and those in kinship care. Explore the barriers to learning for children and young people impacted by trauma. Have an increased awareness of where/how children and young people learn and how they can be supported in the every day.
Date: 11/10/2024
Time: 12:15pm to 1.30pm
TEAMS
How to book
Supporting Education for Previously Looked After Children, Children with a Social worker and Kinship carers
For: Designated Teachers
- The role and responsibilities of the designated teacher.
- Personal Education Plans (PEPs)
- The role of The Virtual School and support available
Date: 17 September 2024
Time: 1:00pm to 3:00pm
TEAMS
Designated Teacher Briefing Booking
Spring 2025
For: Designated Teachers
This virtual training covers:
- Background of PEPs and why they are important
- Focus on Pupil voice including ways to collect
- Targets
- Transitions
- Emotional health/wellbeing
Date and time
16 January 2025
10:00am - 12:30pm
Teams
How to book
For: Designated teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools
In this training you will be supported to look at barriers to school attendance, through a child-centred developmental lens and to consider the systems around the child and whether, in reality, they help or hinder attendance.
- Why attending school matters – looking beyond DFE guidance.
- Known barriers to improving attendance – risk and resilience factors.
- Interventions and strategies to support - including policy and practice considerations.
- Known additional risk factors – being pre-emptive and pro-active
- Action planning for your role or setting – resources and services signposting.
Date and time
21 January 2025
3:30pm-5:30pm
Zoom
How to book
Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) - for primary and secondary school staff
For: Designated Teachers
This virtual training covers:
- Background of PEPs and why they are important
- Focus on Pupil voice including ways to collect
- Targets
- Transitions
- Emotional health/wellbeing
Date and time
23 January 2025
13:00pm - 15:30pm
Teams
How to book
For: Designated Teachers
This session will look at a needs-based approach to funding, considering a trauma informed view of the child and what will genuinely make a difference
It will explore what we know about our most vulnerable children and consider whether current approaches are having the most impact. It will ask whether we are doing all we can to ensure our children are safe, seen, soothed and secure first, so that they are in the best position to learn.
It will look at thinking creatively about how we can use PPG to genuinely support children and young people, consider their unmet needs and have impact on their learning. The session will provide an opportunity to reflect on current practice and consider whether there are alternative ways to respond to learning needs, rather than some of the more traditional responses that tend to be common place.
Date and time
4 March 2025
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Via Zoom
How to book
For: School Staff
Catch up overview session of the Attachment and Trauma session offered in the whole school approach - for new staff at a school at schools/settings which have already completed the training
Date: 29/01/2025
Time: 09:30am to 12:30pm
Via Zoom
How to book
Attachment and Trauma Catch-Up Training for all staff in schools or settings
For: Designated Teachers & Designated Safeguard Leads
Have an understanding of education legislation and practice in England. Have an increased awareness of educational outcomes for adopted children and young people and also children with a social worker and those in kinship care. Explore the barriers to learning for children and young people impacted by trauma. Have an increased awareness of where/how children and young people learn and how they can be supported in the every day.
Date: 10/02/2025
Time: 12:15pm - 1:30pm
Via Zoom
How to book
For: School Staff
Please note this is a 2 day course. You must attend both dates. Do you have children or young people in your school or setting who struggle with their behaviour, their attendance, or their focus in lessons. This may be because of underpinning mental health and emotional wellbeing needs. Many interventions or support focuses on the child or young person but we would like to introduce you to an innovative programme called Youth Connect 5 which supports the parents and carers. The Lancashire Virtual School is offering fully funded Youth Connect 5 training to professionals who will then deliver 5 week training programmes to groups of parents and carers, teaching and having discussions with them around:
- Understanding young people’s mental health
- Thinking about what makes us thrive
- Developing family resilience
- Understanding why we feel the way we do
- Developing skills to support their children
The aims of the course are to:
- Give parents and carers the knowledge, empathy, skills and tools to promote resilience and wellbeing for children and young people
- Strengthen parent’s and children’s resilience
- Increase confidence and parental ability to support their child
- Improve parent/child relationship
As a professional trained in the delivery of Youth Connect 5, you will obtain additional knowledge and skills in mental wellbeing as well as training delivery, supporting your own CPD and the organisation’s strengths. In addition to this, in general your own health and wellbeing may also be improved. We know that many in the workforce will also be parents/carers who themselves will experience challenging times as a parent. For further information on Youth Connect 5, please visit the website:
https://youthconnect5.org.uk Day 1: Monday 13 January 2025 Day 2 Tuesday 14 January 2025
Date and time
13 January 2025 & 14 January 2025
All Day
In Person
How to book
Youth Connect 5 - supporting the emotional wellbeing of young people - 2 Day Course
Summer 2025
For: Designated teachers and staff in primary and secondary schools
In this training you will be supported to look at barriers to school attendance, through a child-centred developmental lens and to consider the systems around the child and whether, in reality, they help or hinder attendance.
- Why attending school matters – looking beyond DFE guidance.
- Reasons for poor attendance – identifying and interpreting EBSA.
- Known barriers to improving attendance – risk and resilience factors.
- Interventions and strategies to support - including policy and practice considerations.
- Known additional risk factors – being pre-emptive and pro-active.
- Action planning for your role or setting – resources and services signposting.
Date and time
8 May 2025
3:30pm-5:30pm
Zoom
How to book
Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) - for primary and secondary school staff
For: Designated Teachers
This virtual training covers:
- Background of PEPs and why they are important
- Focus on pupil voice including ways to collect
- Targets
- Transitions
- Emotional health/wellbeing
Date and time
9 May 2025
10:00am to 12:30pm
Teams
How to book
PEP training for Designated Teachers in all schools and settings
For: Designated Teachers & Designated Safeguard Leads
Have an understanding of education legislation and practice in England. Have an increased awareness of educational outcomes for adopted children and young people and also children with a social worker and those in kinship care. Explore the barriers to learning for children and young people impacted by trauma. Have an increased awareness of where/how children and young people learn and how they can be supported in the every day.
Date and time
Date: 08/05/2025
Time: 12:15pm - 1:30pm
Via Zoom
How to book
For: School Staff
Why doesn’t a behaviour policy based on rewards and sanctions work with children who have experienced trauma and unmet attachment needs? Emotion coaching is about developing the best possible responses to the behaviour of children and young people ‘in the moment’, intervening with the child as the behaviour is happening. Emotion Coaching helps everyone; it helps all children and young people, including those who are struggling that we don’t know about and those more resilient children and young people who experience a challenging event. It can also help those who are struggling with particular challenges like bullying, exam pressure or life events such as death, divorce or poor health. It allows us to develop good relationships that build resilience and an understanding that poor attachment behaviour does not have to be a barrier to relationships. This session will cover:
- What is emotion coaching
- Using emotion coaching
- Connecting with yourself
Date and time
05/06/2025
3.30pm to 5.30pm
Zoom
How to book
Ongoing training
Attachment and trauma training - whole school/setting staff
This is an ongoing training offer which will be booked at a convenient date and time.
This in-person or virtual training is for the whole setting on working with children to become attachment and trauma informed and to look through an attachment and trauma lens. There is also an SLT session to look at school/setting policies.
For more information or for a consultation about this training offer, please e-mail: virtualschooltraining@lancashire.gov.uk
Virtual reality - attachment and trauma training
This powerful new training is initially available to schools and settings in Ribble Valley, Pendle, Burnley, Hyndburn and Rossendale as part of the East TASS (Team Around the School and Settings) attachment and trauma priority. It is being run initially for 1 year as a pilot.
The immersive nature of Antser’s Virtual Reality (VR) programme allows the user to experience the impact of trauma, abuse and neglect through the eyes of the child.
It is designed to enhance the adults understanding of a child’s emotions, trauma and potential triggers to improve the care, support and guidance they provide.
Please e-mail virtualreality-traumatraining@lancashire.gov.uk for more information.