Gentle Guidance: How to Understand, Inspire and Empower Your Kids

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I have a phrase: Be curious rather than furious. Ask why? What thoughts and feelings are manifesting as undesirable behaviours? Once identified you can then begin to meet the need. All behaviour is a form of communication. EMMA- Well, I don’t think that’s doing yourself justice because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this dress. Restorative practice is] about fostering a greater sense of community and encouraging a willingness to act in the right way for the right reasons. EMMA- I’ve talked to Nikki about this lots of times before, but you talked about having ten or 12 people now who are friends who’ve been your PAs, they leave, don’t they?

Benefit from accredited leadership training for your staff. Expert support for teachers at all levels. They were coming out [of mainstream school to join the PRU] at a rate of just over one a day,” he explains. Marie Gentles OBE is a behaviour expert who believes a compassionate approach is the best way to help teenagers reach their potential. Over two episodes and her second series for the BBC, Marie will be working with one improving secondary school to see if her technique can transform behaviour to ensure students can thrive at school. A verbal warning is given but she continues, leading Milligan to use a restraint technique known in the school as “safe holding”. EMMA- It’s really, really important to note, Nikki, that the government says that any changes to benefit assessments will not affect people at the end of their lives or with severe learning disabilities.

Boys more likely to be excluded than girls

The Victoria Derbyshire programme has discovered that the number of children educated in primary-age PRUs has risen 34% in recent years - from 3,181 in 2013-14 to 4,261 in 2016-17. She didn’t ask for children to be sent to her. They just were – and that was part of the problem, although she did not realise that at the time. The ‘best way’ to managebehaviourwill always depend on your context, your phase and your philosophy. So, the important question to start with is actually about your values, and the values you want to promote to your community. Until this afternoon, this little blip, she has been such a superstar,” says Milligan. “She had the best morning.” I’ll still be serving Hawkswood, but from a different angle,” she says. “I just can’t do it within the capacity of my current role.”

The original headline was just awful,” Gentles says. “It also used the phrase ‘sin bin kids’.” As part of her visit, the journalist had been allowed to speak to a child and see his work. “His mum was devastated. It took months supporting her to get that title changed.” NIKKI- What were some of the behaviours, if you don’t mind me asking, Marie and Jayliyah? What were these behaviours that you were exhibiting that weren’t doing you any good at the time?NIKKI- So, thankfully that happened in the loading bay and not on the red carpet because my nightmare would have come true. What would you say to students who might have been getting in trouble at school and want to make a fresh start this term? There are fears that in some areas, mainstream schools are referring children to PRUs simply to “get rid” of pupils causing disruption, without first exploring all avenues to managing their behaviour.