Training and events by the Virtual School
Spring 2024
For: Designated Teachers and Staff in Primary 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
11 January 2024
4pm-6pm
Zoom
How to Book
Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) - For Primary School Staff
Learn how you create safety for a child or young person who has suffered early trauma and has been left with a brain primed for abuse and/or neglect along with a mindset that believes adults, as a group, are unsafe. Anything that then triggers the child’s early bad experiences will result in a raging meltdown or a shutdown of cognitive function.
To help participants to learn the child and what their particular child or young person needs to enable them to begin their journey to recovery and self-regulation. We will explore what safety looks like in their particular setting and how to achieve it on an individual level. The task of prevention and de-escalation – with their specific age-group – will be a focal point of the day, and we will look at the range of strategies that can be brought to play and how their effectiveness can be maximised.
Date and Time
25 January 2024
3:30pm - 5:30pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
Learn how you create safety for a child or young person who has suffered early trauma and has been left with a brain primed for abuse and/or neglect along with a mindset that believes adults, as a group, are unsafe. Anything that then triggers the child’s early bad experiences will result in a raging meltdown or a shutdown of cognitive function.
To help participants to learn the child and what their particular child or young person needs to enable them to begin their journey to recovery and self-regulation. We will explore what safety looks like in their particular setting and how to achieve it on an individual level. The task of prevention and de-escalation – with their specific age-group – will be a focal point of the day, and we will look at the range of strategies that can be brought to play and how their effectiveness can be maximised.
Date and Time
30 January 2024
4pm - 6pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
- What is self-harm? Definition, statistics
- What can lead to self-harm? Triggers
- Self-harm and suicide - similarities and differences, asking about suicide
- functions of self-harm
How to support someone who is self-harming
- Alternatives to self-harm
- how to broach suspected self-harm
- focusing upon stopping self-harm – pros and cons
- language use around self-harm- destigmatising
- general best practice response
Date, Time and Venue
5 February 2024
9:30am - 3:30pm
County Hall, Preston
How to Book
Attention Seekers - Self Harm Training for Secondary School Mental Health Leads
For: Designated Teachers in Primary schools, Year 6 Staff
This course provides learners with understanding and tools to enable children and young people to build resilience and make successful transitions.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
• Understand transitions in the lives of children and young people and the range of responses to them
• Know how to promote positive transitions
• Explain how young people can be helped to gain the skills, self-confidence and knowledge they need to prepare them for the transition from Year 6 to Year 7
Time and Date
8 February 2024
4pm to 6pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
Attachment and trauma catch up session for the new staff of schools and settings (which have already completed our whole school/setting attachment and trauma training).
Catch up overview session of the attachment and trauma session offered in the whole school approach.
26 February 2023 9:30am to 12:30pm
online via Zoom
How to Book
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
5 March 2024
4pm-6pm
Zoom
How to Book
Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) - For Secondary School Staff
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
6 March 2024
4pm to 6pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
Summer 2024
The course is accessible to members of staff within Lancashire Schools and Settings (1 delegate per school/setting) who will commit to using this therapy within their practice.
This is funded by the Lancashire Virtual School.
Drawing and Talking is a safe, easy to learn method of working with children, teenagers and young adults, to help with underlying emotional difficulties that may be affecting their learning and behaviour.
The core of the method is encouraging the pupil to draw with a person with whom they feel comfortable, regularly, at the same time each week, and this person asking some non-intrusive questions about the pupil’s drawings. Over time, a symbolic resolution is found to old conflicts, old trauma is healed, and the pupil is more able to control their behaviour and better able to access the curriculum.
The foundation course consists of a full day’s training. It is suitable for anyone who is working with vulnerable children and young people. No previous knowledge, training or experience is necessary. Participants will learn how to put this simple technique into practice. They will learn how to get started, how to run a session and how to deal with common problems which can arise.
Drawing and Talking is a serial drawing technique which takes place 1-2-1 with the child/young person over a 12-week period. During the training
there will be an opportunity to see how drawings change over time as this powerful, yet safe, healing method
takes effect.
Date, Time and Venue
22 April 2024
8:45am - 3:30pm
The Exchange, County Hall, Preston
How to Book
Speak to your Virtual School education consultant for further information.
For: Designated Teachers and Staff in Primary 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
25 April 2024
4pm-6pm
Zoom
How to Book
Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) - For Primary School Staff
30 April 2024 10am to 12:30pm
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
To Book
For: Staff in Primary Schools
The concept of sexual orientation refers to more than sexual behaviour; it includes feelings as well as identity. This interactive training aims to explore Sexual Identity and Gender Expression/Identity for those unfamiliar with the LGBTQI+ community. Understanding and applying concepts about gender and sexuality, including using appropriate language, is essential to working better with young people.
This unique course provides participants with experience in working with LGBTQI+ people and gives the necessary competences to include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression perspectives in their practice, to combat prejudice and discriminatory attitudes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
• Explore their own experiences of gender
• Discuss the values and beliefs that underlie gender norms
• Gain a better understanding of sexual diversity
• Look critically at their attitudes towards GSMs
• Take ownership of a new set of principles, values, and feelings
• Work practically to challenge GSD-related stigma and discrimination and develop new codes of practice
Date and Time
7 May 2024 3:30-5:30pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
For: Staff in Secondary Schools
The concept of sexual orientation refers to more than sexual behaviour; it includes feelings as well as identity. This interactive training aims to explore Sexual Identity and Gender Expression/Identity for those unfamiliar with the LGBTQI+ community. Understanding and applying concepts about gender and sexuality, including using appropriate language, is essential to working better with young people.
This unique course provides participants with experience in working with LGBTQI+ people and gives the necessary competences to include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression perspectives in their practice, to combat prejudice and discriminatory attitudes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
• Explore their own experiences of gender
• Discuss the values and beliefs that underlie gender norms
• Gain a better understanding of sexual diversity
• Look critically at their attitudes towards GSMs
• Take ownership of a new set of principles, values, and feelings
• Work practically to challenge GSD-related stigma and discrimination and develop new codes of practice
Date and Time
21 May 2024 4-6pm
Via Zoom
How to Book
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
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.