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Team Teach - Level 1 Positive Behaviour Management 6 hour (VAT Exempt)
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: £150
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.
£150.00
Nurturing Practices and Understanding the Boxall Profile (VAT Exempt)
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
Mindfulness: What is it and How Can it be Used in Schools (VAT Exempt)
CANCELLED
Dates: Thursday 12th June 2025, 9:15am - 3:30pm
Who is this course for: SENDCos, Teachers, Mentors and Support Staff.
Fee: £150
Venue: Training Room G.1, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•Brief introduction to the theory of mindfulness.
•Ways in which mindfulness can be used to support the development of children’s social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) skills in school – particularly important in the current uncertain climate.
•How our own mindful practice can influence and guide the SEMH needs for children.
Course Outcomes:
•Basic understanding of the theory of mindfulness.
•Practical strategies which can be used to develop ‘mindful’ behaviours in children (and ourselves).
•An understanding of mindfulness approaches which can support and improve the SEMH needs of children, young people and the adults who support them.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£150.00
Challenging our Conscious and Unconscious Bias to Improve the Equity Within Schools for Children and Staff (VAT Exempt)
Dates: Cancelled
Who is this course for: School leadership team, SENDCos, teachers, mentors and support staff.
Fee: £150
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•Self-identity- the parts that make us who we are.
•What unconscious bias is and how it impacts the way we respond to others.
•Types of discrimination.
•The impact conformity can have on our decision making and opinions.
•How the media can shape our views.
•The impact discrimination and inequity can have on the individual.
•How to challenge and create change for the future.
Course Outcomes:
•Increased 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.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£150.00
Trauma Informed Practices for Primary Staff (VAT Exempt)
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 (VAT Exempt)
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
Understanding and managing anxiety (VAT Exempt)
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
Therapeutic Play Approaches (VAT Exempt)
Dates: Tuesday 12th May 2026. 9am-3pm
Who is this course for: SENDCos, mentors and support staff.
Fee: £80
Venue: Training Room G.1, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Will be run via Microsoft Teams if face to face not possible.
Areas Covered:
•The definition of and developmental stages of play.
•The therapeutic benefits of play.
•The theory & neuroscience behind therapeutic play approaches.
•Our role in play.
•Opportunities to explore resources and learn through play.
•Ideas for a play tool-kit.
Course Outcomes:
•To increase knowledge and understanding of theories related to play and the neuroscience that unpins therapeutic play-based Practices.
•To develop an understanding of the transformative benefits of play & the fundamental rights of a child to play.
•To understand the main developmental/transformative stages of play (& what may have hindered this process).
•To explore the therapeutic toolkit & consider our role in enhancing the therapeutic value of play.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£80.00
Restorative Approaches in Schools (VAT Exempt)
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
Do You Feel What I Feel? How to Emotionally Contain and Regulate Ourselves and Others (VAT Exempt)
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.
£80.00
Attachment Friendly Approaches for Whole School Success (VAT Exempt)
Dates: - CANCELLED Monday 20th January 2025, 9:00am – 4.00pm
Who is this course for: Staff who have just taken on working with children with attachment needs.
Fee: £150
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•Attachment theory.
•Impact of attachment issues.
•Developmental trauma.
•Effective interventions for individuals. Whole school arrangements to lead to an ‘attachment friendly school’.
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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.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£150.00
Working with Children with SEMH Needs in your class VAT Exempt
Dates: -
Thursday 27th 9-3pm
Who is this course for: Early career teachers, teachers wanting to know more about working with SEMH pupils
Fee: £150
This course was postponed from the 2021/22 Wellbeing for Education offer of 2 free places for schools on selected SEMH courses. If you have not used these free places, they can be redeemed against this course.
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•The causes of children’s behaviour including social emotional development and some complex needs.
•The effect of classroom management techniques including managing behaviour and building relationships.
•The impact of teacher language on children and their behaviour.
Course Outcomes:
- To be able to understand and identify some of the causes of children’s behaviour and social and emotional development in the classroom.
- To be able to understand the effect of rewards and consequences on children and use differentiated strategies to help build relationships and manage behaviour.
- To be able to plan and use positive scripted language in the classroom.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team
£150.00
Developing Wellbeing Through Cognitive Behavioural Approaches (VAT Exempt)
CANCELLED
Dates: Monday 10th February 2025, 9:15am – 3:30pm
Who is this course for: SENDCos, teachers, mentors and support staff.
Fee: £150
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
•Theoretical approaches to cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).
•Knowledge of CBT based activities.
•Use of CBT approaches to support children.
Course Outcomes:
•Understanding and knowledge of CBT theory.
•Awareness of a range of approaches and activities based on CBT which can support children.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£150.00
Introduction to Social Media and the Impact on Identity and Self-Esteem - VAT Exempt
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 2 Positive Behaviour Management 12 hour (VAT Exempt)
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 : £215
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.
-
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 including two person holds.
-
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 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.