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Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
Dates: (Must be able to attend all sessions)
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Day 1 - 30th October 2025
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Day 2 - 20th November 2025
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Day 3 - 11th December 2025
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Day 4 - 15th January 2026
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Day 5 - 5th February 2026
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Day 6 - 5th March 2026
Time: 09:30am-16:00pm for all dates
Fee: £600 for all 6 sessions
Venue: Room G.1 The Hall, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Overview:
The ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) programme provides a comprehensive training course for teaching assistants and pastoral staff, developing skills to understand and respond to emotional and social needs in children and young people. Over six days, participants learn the skills to work as an ELSA, delivering individual and group interventions with children and young people. Ongoing supervision is required to maintain ELSA status.
Course Outcomes:
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Participants will develop their understanding of emotional literacy and how to support the development of emotional literacy skills.
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Participants will learn how to support children and young people with a variety of needs including: mild-moderate anxiety and low mood, social skills, emotional regulation, bereavement and low self-esteem.
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Participants will learn therapeutic and relational skills in order to build supportive relationships and run their own sessions.
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Participants will learn how to manage appropriate referrals, and plan and evaluate interventions
£600.00
ELSA Supervisions 25-26
Session details:
6 sessions of supervision, 1 per half term, sessions will be 2 hours.
Requirements:
ELSAs are expected to attend all supervision sessions (unless there are extenuating circumstances such as illness). Attendance at supervision is required to maintain ELSA status which allows use of the ELSA title. A register of accredited ELSAs will be maintained by the City Psychology Service
Venue:
New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Cost: £300
£300.00
Neurodiversity affirming classrooms
Dates: Thursday 26th February 2026
Times: 09:00am - 12:30pm
Cost: £40
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Classrooms are full of neurodiverse learners with varying strengths and differences. The neurodiversity paradigm acknowledges and celebrates these differences, while recognising the associated challenges. This training will explore the experiences of neurodivergent learners and how best to support them in the classroom to provide an inclusive and positive experience for all.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will understand what neurodivergence means and how neurodivergent children may be impacted in the classroom
- Participants will learn how to create a neurodivergence-friendly classroom
- Participants will learn strategies to support neurodivergent learners
£40.00
Introduction to Social Media and the Impact on Identity and Self-Esteem
Dates: Friday 27th February 2026
Time: 09:00am - 4:00pm
Cost: £80
Venue: room G.4, New Parks house, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is it for: School leadership team, SENDCos, Teachers, Mentors and Support Staff.
Areas covered:
- Types of social media used by children and young people.
- The positive and negative impact social media can have.
- Strategies school can use to teach media safety to children, young people and their families.
Course Outcomes:
- To recognise how and why children and young people use social media.
- To recognise the impact social media can have on children and young people and how that can affect their mental health.
- How to recognise the signs of unhealthy social media use.
- How to support children, young people and their families in using social media safely
£80.00
Team Teach - Level 1 Positive Behaviour Management 6 hour
Dates:
Wednesday 17 September 2025
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Wednesday 20 May 2026
9:00am – 3:30pm
Who is this course for: Anyone member of staff or leadership team working with dysregulated children who wish to learn effective de-escalation skills and ways of working safely with the children.
Fee: £130
Venue(s): New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•Training in Positive Handling Strategies through a whole school holistic approach, ensuring increased understanding and ability to manage difficult and sometimes disturbing behaviour.
•Team Teach aims to reduce risk using de-escalation and diversion, exploring the possible reasons for challenging behaviour.
•Focus on support and safety for both children and staff.
•The course is interactive both in discussions and practice of physical techniques.
•A focus on restorative practice and post incident Support.
•Understanding of what the law says about Restrictive Physical Intervention, recording, reporting, and monitoring.
Course Outcomes:
•Participants will gain a nationally accredited certificate.
•Increased knowledge, understanding and skills around challenging behaviour.
•Participants will gain the ability to utilise safe and basic physical interventions.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
**Please note that by booking onto and completing this course, you are also committing to an annual subscription to Team Teach Connect resources and services. This is a cost per establishment (as per Team Teach business terms and conditions) in addition to the price of this course. This will be invoiced separately and direct by Team Teach after the course. A copy of the T&C and more details can be provided by emailing team.teachenquiries@leicester.gov.uk.
£130.00
Team Teach - Level 1 Refresher
Dates:
Wednesday 10 September 2025
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Wednesday 4 February 2026
9:00am – 1:00pm
Who is this course for: Anyone member of staff or leadership team working with dysregulated children who wish to renew their Level 1 Certificate.
Fee: £87
Venue(s): New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•Training in Positive Handling Strategies through a whole school holistic approach, ensuring increased understanding and ability to manage difficult and sometimes disturbing behaviour.
•Team Teach aims to reduce risk using de-escalation and diversion, exploring the possible reasons for challenging behaviour.
•Focus on support and safety for both children and staff.
•The course is interactive both in discussions and practice of physical techniques.
•A focus on restorative practice and post incident Support.
•Understanding of what the law says about Restrictive Physical Intervention, recording, reporting, and monitoring.
Course Outcomes:
•Participants will gain a nationally accredited certificate.
•Increased knowledge, understanding and skills around challenging behaviour.
•Participants will gain the ability to utilise safe and basic physical interventions.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
**Please note that by booking onto and completing this course, you are also committing to an annual subscription to Team Teach Connect resources and services. This is a cost per establishment (as per Team Teach business terms and conditions) in addition to the price of this course. This will be invoiced separately and direct by Team Teach after the course. A copy of the T&C and more details can be provided by emailing team.teachenquiries@leicester.gov.uk.
£87.00
Team Teach – Level 2 Positive Behaviour Management 12 hour
Dates:
- Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November 2025
- Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March 2026
Who is it for? – This two-day course is for any members of staff or leadership team working with complex dysregulated children who wish to learn effective de-escalation skills and ways of working safely with the children that may require two persons.
Cost : £195
Areas Covered: -
- Training in Positive Handling Strategies through a whole school holistic approach, ensuring increased understanding and ability to manage difficult , complex and sometimes challenging behaviours.
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Team Teach aims to reduce risk using de-escalation and diversion, exploring the possible reasons for challenging behaviour.
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Focus on support and safety for both children and staff.
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The course is interactive both in discussions and practice of physical techniques including two person holds.
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A focus on restorative practice and post incident support.
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Understanding of what the law says about Restrictive Physical Intervention, recording, reporting, and monitoring.
Course Outcomes: -
- Participants will gain a nationally accredited certificate.
- Increased knowledge, understanding and skills around challenging behaviour.
- Participants will gain the ability to utilise safe and Level 2 physical interventions.
Alternatively, this course can be delivered in your primary school/setting. Please discuss this with your SEMH link teacher or email team.teachenquiries@leicester.gov.uk
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
**Please note that by booking onto and completing this course, you are also committing to an annual subscription to Team Teach Connect resources and services. This is a cost per establishment (as per Team Teach business terms and conditions) in addition to the price of this course. This will be invoiced separately and direct by Team Teach after the course. A copy of the T&C and more details can be provided by emailing team.teachenquiries@leicester.gov.uk.
£195.00
Team Teach - Level 2 Refresher
Dates:
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Wednesday 3 December 2025
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Wednesday 4 February 2026
Times: 9:00am - 3:30pm
Who is it for? – This one-day course is for any members of staff or leadership team working with complex dysregulated children who wish to refresh their Level 2 certificate.
Cost : £130
Areas Covered: -
- Training in Positive Handling Strategies through a whole school holistic approach, ensuring increased understanding and ability to manage difficult , complex and sometimes challenging behaviours.
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Team Teach aims to reduce risk using de-escalation and diversion, exploring the possible reasons for challenging behaviour.
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Focus on support and safety for both children and staff.
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The course is interactive both in discussions and practice of physical techniques including two person holds.
-
A focus on restorative practice and post incident support.
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Understanding of what the law says about Restrictive Physical Intervention, recording, reporting, and monitoring.
Course Outcomes: -
- Participants will gain a nationally accredited certificate.
- Increased knowledge, understanding and skills around challenging behaviour.
- Participants will gain the ability to utilise safe and Level 2 physical interventions.
Alternatively, this course can be delivered in your primary school/setting. Please discuss this with your SEMH link teacher or email team.teachenquiries@leicester.gov.uk
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
**Please note that by booking onto and completing this course, you are also committing to an annual subscription to Team Teach Connect resources and services. This is a cost per establishment (as per Team Teach business terms and conditions) in addition to the price of this course. This will be invoiced separately and direct by Team Teach after the course. A copy of the T&C and more details can be provided by emailing team.teachenquiries@leicester.gov.uk.
£130.00
Emotion Coaching
Dates: Wednesday 12th November
Time: 09:00am - 13:00pm
Cost: £40
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Course Outcome: Emotion Coaching is a relational approach, which helps children and young people to understand the emotions they experience, why they occur and how to handle them. The course covers the theory and practical applications of emotion coaching. emotion coaching can support the development of positive relationships and academic attainment through consistent and helpful responses to difficult behaviours and feeling. Course Outcomes: Participants will acquire an understanding of the theoretical and physiological basis for Emotion Coaching Participants will develop an understanding of emotion styles relevant to emotion coaching Participants will also develop an understanding of techniques involved in emotion coaching.
This course is suitable for staff across all key stages.
£40.00
Trauma Informed Practices for Primary Staff
Dates: Wednesday 15th April 2026
Time: 09:00am - 4:00pm
Fee: £80
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: Primary School staff
Areas Covered:
•Introducing trauma: understanding the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on children.
•Utilising Cognitive and Neurological theories to develop our understanding of the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on learning, emotions and relationships.
•Developing best practices to support children who have experienced trauma within the school community, with a particular focus on practical ways of working.
Course Outcomes:
•Knowledge of theories, approaches and practical skills to effectively support children following traumatic experiences.
•Understanding of specific difficulties which are related to developmental trauma.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£80.00
Trauma Informed Practices for Secondary staff
Dates: Wednesday 29th October 2025
Times: 09:00am - 16:00pm
Fee: £80
Venue: Room G.3, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: Secondary School staff
Areas Covered:
•Introducing trauma: understanding the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on children.
•Utilising Cognitive and Neurological theories to develop our understanding of the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on learning, emotions and relationships.
•Developing best practices to support children who have experienced trauma within the school community, with a particular focus on practical ways of working.
Course Outcomes:
- Knowledge of theories, approaches and practical skills to effectively support children following traumatic experiences.
- Understanding of specific difficulties which are related to developmental trauma.
£80.00
Adverse Childhood Experiences - Primary
Date: Monday 6th October 2025
Time: 09:00-17:00
Cost: £80
Venue: Room G.1 The Hall, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Training is designed to raise awareness about the impact of childhood trauma and how it affects learning, behaviour, and emotional development.
Outcomes:
Introduction to ACEs and prevalence
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Understanding the impact of ACEs: Explore the neurological, psychological, and emotional effects of
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Discuss how ACEs can influence behaviour, academic performance, and social interactions.
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Learn about the lasting effects on mental health, including increased risk for conditions such as anxiety
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Build protective factors: Ways to create a protective and supportive school environment, such as
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Support: introduce trauma informed and shame sensitive practices, the importance of relationship and
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Staff wellbeing: Understand compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, alongside personal support and
help that is available.
£80.00
Adverse Childhood Experiences - Secondary
Date: Monday 12th January 2026
Time: 09:00-17:00
Cost: £80
Venue: Room G.1 The Hall, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Training is designed to raise awareness about the impact of childhood trauma and how it affects learning, behaviour, and emotional development.
Outcomes:
Introduction to ACEs and prevalence
- Understanding the impact of ACEs: Explore the neurological, psychological, and emotional effects of
trauma on children.
- Discuss how ACEs can influence behaviour, academic performance, and social interactions.
- Learn about the lasting effects on mental health, including increased risk for conditions such as anxiety
- Build protective factors: Ways to create a protective and supportive school environment, such as providing mentorship and involving families and communities
- Support: introduce trauma informed and shame sensitive practices, the importance of relationship and connection, focus on language that cares.
- Staff wellbeing: Understand compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, alongside personal support and help that is available.
£80.00
Attachment Aware
Attachment Aware
Dates: Thursday 5th February 2026
Time: 09:00-15:30pm
Cost: £80 per session
Venue: Room G.3 , New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for:
In this training you will gain an understanding of:
- Attachment theory.
- Impact of attachment issues.
- Developmental trauma.
- Effective interventions for individuals. Whole school
- arrangements to lead to an ‘attachment friendly school’.
Course Outcomes:
- Enhanced understanding of attachment theory.
- Greater understanding of children’s difficulties who have attachment issues and developmental trauma.
- Participants will have new practical strategies for individuals.
- Participants will have ideas for whole school development.
£80.00
Nurturing Practices and Understanding the Boxall Profile
Dates: Wednesday 26th November 2025
Times: 09:00am - 16:00pm
Fee: £80
Venue: Training Room G 3,New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester. LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: School leadership, SENDCos, staff leading and working in school Nurture Groups (teachers, mentors, and support staff).
Areas Covered:
•Background and history to nurture groups.
•An introduction to Attachment Theory.
•The importance of play.
•Practical nurturing Ideas.
•Risk and resilience factors for children.
•Assessment tools and monitoring for children with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
•Using the Boxall Profile.
•Practical applications for supporting children with social, emotional and mental health needs.
Course Outcomes:
•To understand and use the Boxall Profile as a tool for supporting children with social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH).
•To gain practical ideas for using with children with SEMH needs.
•To develop an understanding of nurturing practices and nurture group provision within Schools.
•To gain practical ideas for use within a Nurture Group Setting.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£80.00
Restorative Approaches in Schools
Restorative Approaches in Schools
Dates: - (Three Day Course) (delegates must attend all dates)
- Thursday 9th October 2025
- Wednesday 19th November 2025
- Wednesday 21st January 2026
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm for all dates
Fee: £660 for 3 people (3rd delegate place is free) otherwise £330 per person.
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENDCos, Teachers, Mentors and Support Staff.
Areas Covered:
•What is conflict and how does it affect us? Can it ever be good?
•What are the 4 main ways of resolving conflict and how effective are these?
•Why Restorative Practices? What are the benefits?
•Using practical, mediator skills under the restorative model to solve challenge situations.
•Using the restorative model to hold a mediating conference between 2 or more parties.
•How we can apply this to the wider school setting and develop a restorative school.
Course Outcomes:
•To understand the needs of individuals who are harmed and require support.
•See the effects of harm from different perspectives and the effectiveness of Restorative Approaches as a primary response to conflict.
•Be confident in applying the restorative model to help restore relationships for all people within our school communities.
•Use specific techniques in restorative mediation, when helping people recover from harm.
•Use the wider principles of Restorative Approaches to foster a whole-school Restorative Approach.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£330.00
Challenging Conscious and Unconscious Bias
Dates: Wednesday 11th March 2026
Cost: 80
Venue: Room G.4 ,New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Course Outcomes:
Increase your awareness of our own
biases and strategies we can use to
challenge them.
To create a personalised action plan
for your school with the aim of
improving the equity for all.
£80.00
Understanding and managing anxiety
Dates: Wednesday 25th March 2026
Times: 09:00am - 12:30pm
Fee: £40
Venue: G 3 Training Room, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester. LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENDCos, teachers, mentors and support staff
Areas Covered:
•Anxiety as one of the most common mental health problems to affect children and young people, particularly in the current climate of uncertainty.
•How to recognise anxiety.
•Practical tools, strategies and resources to support cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) approaches with anxious children.
Course Outcomes:
•To develop an understanding of cognitive behavioural anxiety approaches.
•To gain practical activities and strategies to support the use of cognitive behavioural approaches with anxious pupils.
•To have the skills to support pupils recognise anxiety driven behaviours.
•To develop strategies and approaches to manage anxiety.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£40.00
Do You Feel What I Feel? How to Emotionally Contain and Regulate Ourselves and Others
Dates: Tuesday 10th March 2026
Times: 09:00am - 15:00pm
Fee: £80
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENDCos, Teachers Mentors and Support Staff.
Will be run via Microsoft Teams if face to face not possible.
•The differences between self-, co- and social-regulation and dysregulation and how they manifest.
•How we can use co- and social-regulation to help children to learn to tolerate sensations, situations and distress whilst forming appropriate responses.
•Developmental stages of self- and co-regulation and their role in understanding and managing behaviours, reactions to feelings and the things happening in the world around you.
•Why the developmental process may have been hindered. (including neuroscience).
•Practical ideas for resources (i.e. sensory breaks, regulatory toolkits, supportive scripts, steps to take to build self-regulatory capacity in others).
Course Outcomes:
•To reflect on our own self-regulatory capacity and how these impacts on those around us.
•To understand that when others become dysregulated and cannot regulate their own emotions, we can contain them through co-regulation and development of self; in doing this we can help them to learn to tolerate sensations, situations and distress whilst forming appropriate responses and over time develop their capacity for self-regulation.
•To consider the developmental stages of co- and self-regulation and their role in understanding and managing behaviours, reactions to feelings and the things happening in the world around us, and to consider why this process might be hindered.
•To explore resources and develop ideas for co/self-regulation (i.e. sensory breaks, regulatory toolkits, supportive scripts, steps to take to build self-regulatory capacity in others).
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.