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Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) (VAT Exempt)
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 (VAT Exempt)
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
Adverse Childhood Experiences - Primary (VAT Exempt)
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
Understanding Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) (vat exempt)
This training looks to explore emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). EBSA is not a deliberate act of defiance, but instead a complex issue inextricably linked with mental health and wellbeing. The training aims to develop understanding of the “push” factors that might make a child struggle to attend school, the “pull” factors that might help a child to be happy and to attend school, and what we can do to help.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will develop an understanding of EBSA and good practice in this area based on relevant research.
- Participants will learn to identify children and young people at risk of EBSA.
- Participants will be supported to formulate the main ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors for a “live” school case Participants will learn strategies to use at a whole school and individual student level.
Dates: 5 June and 19 June 2025, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
£165.00
Emotion Coaching - VAT Exempt
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
Executive functioning and cognitive load - VAT Exempt
Dates: Thursday 13th November 2025
Times: 09:30am - 12:30pm
Cost: £ 40
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Executive functions are the ‘air traffic control’ of the brain, keeping everything organised and running smoothly. When this goes wrong, children can be disorganised, struggle to structure thinking, understand and retain learning and manage their emotions. This course looks at different aspects of executive functioning and how to promote and accommodate skills in the classroom. The course is most suitable for teachers and support staff working in key stage through to key stage 4.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will learn what executive functioning means and the variety of skills which fall under this category.
- Participants will learn to recognise children they work with who may need support with executive functioning.
- Participants will learn strategies to encourage the development of executive functioning and to accommodate differences in the classroom.
£40.00
Precision Teaching (VAT Exempt)
Dates:
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Thursday 13th Nov 2025
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Thursday 27th Nov 2025
Time: 09:30am-11:00am
Cost: £40 for both sessions
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Precision Teaching is a highly effective and evidence-based intervention strategy for literacy and numeracy. This course covers practical instruction on how to run a precision teaching programme and strategies to generalise learning to the classroom. A follow up session can be arranged to embed practice.
Course Outcomes:
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Participants will understand how to plan, deliver and monitor precision teaching programmes for literacy (reading or spelling) and numeracy.
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Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how to apply precision teaching to other areas of learning.
£40.00
Behaviour - What has language got to do with it - VAT exempt
CANCELLED
Many children who display “challenging” behaviour have underlying language difficulties. This training explores research focusing on social, emotional and mental health, and language and communication needs. Practical approaches to support children’s language and behaviour will be discussed.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will understand the links between behaviour and SLCN.
- Participants will have knowledge of approaches and strategies to support children with social, emotional and communication needs
Duration 3 hours
Dates: 30th April 2025
Cost: £85
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
£0.00
Precision Teaching (Bespoke course) (VAT Exempt)
Who this course is for:
Teachers and teaching assistants from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4.
- Participants will understand how to plan, deliver and monitor precision teaching programmes for literacy (reading or spelling) or numeracy, beginning with the example of reading high frequency words or another area as negotiated. They will have been given the opportunity to discuss how to apply it to other areas of learning.
- As well as being offered as a short course in one of our centrally located presentation suites, it can also be delivered in schools with the addition of two follow up sessions to help embed practice.
To arrange bespoke training, please contact paul.eden@leicester.gov.uk
£0.00
Neurodiversity affirming classrooms - VAT Exempt
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