Health and Wellbeing
Building Care, Connection and Confidence at Whitefield Primary School
See how one Liverpool primary school replaced rules and sanctions with care, connection and confidence, and which of its ideas could work in yours.
- 49 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Let children choose the adult they go to when things are hard
- Use shared values, rather than rules, to talk about behaviour
- Share the Zones of Regulation with parents so they use it at home
- Plan play time where adults join in and build relationships
- Train every adult in school so responses to children stay consistent
About this course
What would your school look like without a list of rules? Whitefield Primary, in one of the most deprived parts of Liverpool, tried consequences, time-outs and missed playtimes, and found they didn't work for its children or its staff. So it swapped them for three values, care, connection and confidence, and built a trauma-informed approach on them.
The headteacher and deputy explain how that works day to day. Children choose their own trusted adult, who might not be on the pastoral team. Every adult, from governors to lunchtime staff, is trained the same way. Families come in to learn the Zones of Regulation so home and school use the same language, and a daily half-hour of play, with teachers joining in, has cut behaviour incidents.
Some of it is a long-term change of culture. Some of it you could start next week.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. Primary.
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