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At Beormund Primary School in Southwark staff work hard to provide a supportive, structured environment allowing pupils with a wide range of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties to achieve their targets and succeed. The staff employ a wide range of positive strategies. For example, during...
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| Format: | Streaming video |
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| Language: | English |
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[England] :
Teachers TV/UK Department of Education,
2006.
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| Series: | Education in video
Special schools ; 1 Special schools ; 2 |
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| Online Access: | Click to access this resource online Click to access this resource online |
| Summary: | At Beormund Primary School in Southwark staff work hard to provide a supportive, structured environment allowing pupils with a wide range of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties to achieve their targets and succeed. The staff employ a wide range of positive strategies. For example, during thinking time pupils reflect on how their inappropriate choices have consequences and the impact of their behaviour on other people. PATHs are creative planning tools that use graphic facilitation to collect information and develop positive future plans. PATHs, or Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope, are used to explore individual and school aims and policies and form large displays around the school where everyone can see them and think about supporting each other in achieving their dreams. What the pupils have to say about their school and how they articulate their hopes and dreams is a reflection of how they are included in the whole-school community. At Beormund Special School the focus is to ensure pupils feel they belong. Appreciating the child in the context of school, family and their wider social systems is part of the whole school strategy. Psychotherapist Judith Hemming has worked with staff to explore what is termed the Systemic Approach to encourage the children and their families to be included. Each day begins with basic skills where pupils who have experienced failure at other schools are given the opportunity to succeed. Tea and toast is a daily highlight and the pupils take time out with staff to relax and learn social skills. Massage is also on the agenda as pupils work in pairs to ease their tensions. Two parents talk about how the school works in partnership with them and some of the pupils reveal their ambitions for the future. For them, anything seems possible. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (35 min.). Previously released as DVD. |