School Pastoral Training: Engaging with Parents and Families – Virtual Short Course
£50.00 + VAT
Get the guidance and support you need to make a positive difference in addressing the issue of engaging with parents and families, ensuring a greater focus on vulnerable children and supporting them in achieving academic success.
This short online course will give you the best available guidance to support you in making a positive difference to young people through pastoral care, addressing the issue of disruptive behaviour, with a focus on the pastoral role and legal elements, behavioural support, engaging with parents and supporting mental health.
COVID-19 has caused immense disruption for most children, especially for those who come from unstable families. At a time of heightened stress and tension, the pastoral and safeguarding leads and the whole school needs to ensure a greater focus on vulnerable children and supporting them in achieving academic success.
This fully online course is delivered via our specialist learning platform – you will be able to access training videos, written materials, downloadable templates, examples and tools, and a test at the end to check your learning.
Designed for flexible learning it means you can work at your own pace and in your own time, and with a year’s access you can keep going back to refresh your knowledge.
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After completing this course you will:
- Have learnt how to build successful working relationships.
- Understand ways of communicating with hard to reach parents.
- Know how to work with aggressive or disinterested parents.
- Gained insight into what is a helicopter parent and how you can work with them.
- Know how to approach dealing with families and parents with additional needs.
Agenda
- Learning 1
- Building successful working relationships
- Learning 2
- Working with hard to reach parents
- Learning 3
- Working with aggressive/disinterested parents
- Learning 4
- Working with helicopter parents
- Learning 5
- Families/parents with additional needs
Speakers
Samantha Garner
Samantha Garner is a well-established consultant and trainer in the world of SEN, Access Arrangements and Mental Health. Originally a music teacher, she has worked in the SEN arena for over 15 years and spent time in a large secondary school where she set up a specialist behaviour unit. After this time she qualified as a CBT therapist and child and adolescent counsellor. Sam has trained and consulted in the whole spectrum of educational establishments from PRUs to very prestigious private schools. She is a published author of several mental health support programmes and regularly writes for SEN magazines.
Venue
Online
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