Therapeutic Schools Award

£5,000

Therapeutic Schools Award

A Whole School Approach...

Our whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing changes practice, supports teacher development and empowers you to put wellbeing at the heart of your school. Create a culture where all teachers are confident at recognising the signs that children are struggling, and know how to respond. Create an environment where children are taught to understand their own mental health and are given the tools they need to flourish in the world.

This programme includes our signature Therapeutic Teaching Course which is underpinned by neuroscience and trauma theory and will upskill you to become trauma-informed and attachment aware in a practical, tangible way.

We are skilled at closing the gap between theory and practice and give you step by step processes to help you initiate change. We will explore the impact of childhood trauma, how attachment disorder presents in school, therapeutic responses, cultivating emotional intelligence, creating calmer environments, and approaching challenging behaviour. All modules are all online and come with lifetime access, PDF reminders and additional resources to help you embed the approach so that the impact of the course continues long after you have completed the modules. This course will help improve behaviour, social, emotional, and academic outcomes, staff skillset, staff wellbeing, and children’s mental health.

In order to be eligible for the award, all schools must evidence that they are applying what they have learnt in the courses to their settings and must slowly embed therapeutic practices alongside the way. The programme also includes our wellbeing curriculum to support your PHSE with a specific focus on mental health and social/ emotional development.

Let's do this together

Although this award is self-initiated through our online training platform, we are here to support and guide you along the way. It is important to us that the Therapeutic School Approach is embedded into your ethos and practices in a way that benifits every child. Here is what you can expect:

An initial whole school assessment
24 hour, lifetime access to our online platform to allow for effective implementation and strategic planning both initially and long term
The therapeutic teaching course, 6 online training modules (see below) for leadership and all staff
Additional online wellbeing curriculum to enhance the approach
Supporting resources
Senior leadership area to address staff leadership and signposting
Leaders will be paired with therapeutic school leads from schools who have completed the training who will act as mentors
Regular check-ins to monitor progress
Live workshop with staff to encourage discussion and to help relate theory to practice

Assessment:

Assessment criteria checklist to ensure school meet all expectations
Self-initiated plan for strategic change and feedback
Feedback of the course modules will be gathered to monitor the impact
Assessments after every module to ensure understanding
2 specific assessment tools are included to monitor change and evidence impact.
Final whole school assessment and evaluation of outcomes + impact report

Completion:

Awarded Therapeutic School Status

Ongoing Support:

Ongoing support from TPC Therapy after the course has been implemented
Peer support from other schools and leaders is ongoing through access to the therapeutic school forum.

Childhood Trauma and the Brain

Learn about childhood trauma and how it impacts a developing brain. Find out what happens when children are stressed or overwhelmed. Why they have ‘meltdowns’ and what the impact is on their behaviour and internal processing at school. Most importantly, learn what can you do to help. Underpinned by therapeutic approaches and full of advice and free resources. This session is vital for anyone working with vulnerable children or young people in an educational setting.

Attachment Disorder in the Context of the Classroom

Learn about attachment disorder and how it impacts a child or young person. Find out how to identify attachment disorder and how to support the children you work with by ensuring you are not triggering attachment style behaviours. Full of practical strategies and advice to help you figure out what is effective and what is not effective at school. You will have lots to take away and implement

Therapeutic Teaching Skills

Learn about how to develop therapeutic teaching skills with the children in your school. Find out how to adapt your responses to behavioural incidents and emotional outbursts to focus on connection and care. The lessons in this module will begin to create a therapeutic ethos amongst your staff and help guide everyone working with the children toward an approach that puts mental health and well-being first. A very popular session which will change perceptions and offer a lot of ‘ah-ha’ moments.

Creating A Therapeutic Environment

This module underpins the learning in other modules and should be taken following those sessions. Learn how to create a therapeutic environment throughout your school which puts well-being and mental health at its core. Find out how changing your classrooms, hallways and outdoor areas can increase feelings of safety and promote self-belief which in turn positively impact learning. Ensuring your school is meeting the needs of each child through its design.

Creating an Emotionally Intelligent Class

Learn about emotional intelligence and how focusing on developing EI in your children can predict better outcomes and life skills than academic achievements. This module links to the government guidelines on health, relationships and sex education and will inspire you to put wellbeing at the heart of your classroom. Find out how you can increase emotional intelligence in the children you work with and help them become more self-aware and empathetic by following the advice, resources, and support in this module.

Connection vs Disconnection When Approaching Behviour

working with vulnerable children. Find out how to approach behavioural incidents whilst still maintaining a therapeutic approach based on connection. With specific approaches and advice for you to begin to implement in your school. This session guides you toward alternative methods to time out and detention whilst still maintaining the boundaries many vulnerable children desperately need.

Teaching and empowering the children

A whole school approach means upskilling the children too! After all, they are going to need the insight, awareness, and tools to support their own wellbeing and mental health long after school ends. Our lessons will help with this.

What is included?

The Wellbeing Curriculum puts mental health and emotional wellbeing at the core of education. It complements the government's PHSE and sex and relationships guidance and It is underpinned by the 4 key qualities we believe children need to learn about in order to flourish in life.

Their mental health
Self-belief
Positive mindset
Emotional intelligence

Each key quality is taught and explored through written lesson plans for all year groups. It also has 10 Core Happiness Project lessons for year 5+6 which are recorded, interactive sessions with Shahana Knight.

These lessons are:

Understanding feelings
Anger management (the brain)
Self-concept
Body image
Social media and technology
Mindset
Success vs failure
Stress buster
Mindfulness
Positive relationships

The curriculum includes:

The wellbeing curriculum guide
10 online core happiness project lessons
Additional activities to complement the core lessons
Daily practices
Wellbeing activities
Online calming stories read by Shahana Knight
Lower year lesson plans
Seasonal additions such as Christmas and world book day related resources and videos
The impact assessment paperwork
Observation forms
Self-assessment form

The wellbeing curriculum is designed to complement your current PHSE lessons rather than replace them. For primary schools, introducing daily practices and year 5+6 online lessons are a mandatory expectation of the award. All other lessons are optional.

Connect and share ideas with others

We know how important it is to connect with people and so we have made sure there are ways to share practice, ask questions and learn from other therapeutic teachers.

After each module there is a peer learning prompt to encourage staff to share practice, apply the knowledge to real life and plan how to implement changes.
Access to staff training resources to promote discussion about staff wellbeing and try some strategies out together
We also include 1-2 live workshops to allow leaders to get together as management, or with the whole team to ask questions, share practice and real-life examples (ethos and environment principle)
Leaders can share and learn from external peers outside of school in our therapeutic school forum and with their therapeutic school mentor. They will be encouraged to include discussion/ learning opportunities in their staff meetings.

Making a real, tangible difference

We are confident you will see significant outcomes. With dedication, commitment and team work, here is what you can expect:

Senior leaders feel empowered to roll out a whole school approach and adapt their behaviour policies and their whole school improvement plan
Early changes in mindset
Staff begin to include wellbeing practices into their routine
Leaders can access and utilise tools and resources to support their own mental health
Staff begin to take care of their own mental health
-pupils are given practical tools to manage their own wellbeing
Leaders and staff can use strategies and tools to respond to challenging behaviour
Leaders and staff begin to identify behaviour that links to mental health needs and know how to respond and support their students
Support staff and lunch time organisers will begin to have a deeper awareness, resources and skillset to use with the children.
Leaders will be able to introduce an ethos that focuses on healthy, connective relationships and promote emotionally secure environments for their children
Everybody will feel empowered and inspired to support mental health and wellbeing
There will be a whole school culture to support mental health and wellbeing
Classrooms and environments will reflect a calm ethos designed to promote engagement and attainment
Teachers will recognise behaviours and signs that link to poor mental health and wellbeing and respond with insight
All teachers will follow the same approach to behaviour
There will be an ethos around creating safe, secure environments and relationships for the children in school.
A whole school behaviour policy paired with an individualised graduated response
The school will follow evidence-based approaches
Schools will give the children strategies and tools to manage their wellbeing.
Staff will understand how childhood trauma and aces impact learning and behaviour
Staff will understand how attachment disorder impacts behaviour
Staff will know how to avoid triggering attachment style behaviours in children
Staff will know how to increase their pupils emotional intelligence
Staff will be able to evidence daily practices they use to promote wellbeing
School culture will normalise mental health issues and reflect healthy strategies to support wellbeing

Improved attendance
The number of exclusions will be reduced
Improved behaviour
Improved outcomes, socially, emotionally, and academically
Improved staff wellbeing
Improved behaviour policy
Improved attainment
Clear whole school approach can be evidenced with specific examples of where changes have been made and how this will be maintained
Increased staff skillset and confidence to support children
Children will be more emotionally intelligent and understand their feelings
Children will be able to manage their emotions and behaviours and self-regulate
Children will have specific strategies to manage their own mental health and wellbeing needs and will be confident to use them in their day-to-day practices.
The school environment will cultivate inspired learners
Teachers feel confident to build positive relationships with students

As Seen on the BBC!

The BBC came to visit our pilot Therapeutic School and captured the impact from the children themselves!

Watch here

This whole school course costs £5,000 this includes everything above as well as:

Access for the whole school training
Access includes TA'S, Support staff, office staff, and lunchtime organisers
Lifetime access for the whole school, so you can add new users as they join your school at no additional cost
All course modules, resources, and support
Ongoing support from TPC Therapy that continues long after you have completed the award

Additional costs:
You can book additional workshops with us to embed learning and discuss real cases for an additional charge of £200 for a two-hour session. These are linked to specific modules and can be booked virtually or face to face. Please be aware that these are subject to availability and depend on location.

Maintaining Standards
It is really important that after all of your hard work you do not lose momentum or dip in standards. In order to continue to have access to the wellbeing curriculum and renew your therapeutic school status each year for £400 a year.

This covers the cost of resubmission, assessment, a new banner, and relevant award badges.

Payment methods
1. Online
Excited to get started? Just click the link at the top of this page to book on right now. We will then send you a spreadsheet so we can sign up the rest of your school.

2. By invoice
Bob us an email to info@tpctherapy.co.uk and let us know you want to book and we will send you an invoice.

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Testimonials

We went on to the therapeutic programme – this was mind-blowing and a real game-changer for us.

Head Teacher

After only three weeks I could give you hundreds of examples on the amazing, wonderful effect this is having on our children

Head Teacher

I'm thoroughly enjoying these courses and can see the impact they are having on the children

Teacher

It's presented in such a way that you never sit there thinking, "What the heck does that mean?!

Teacher

I’m currently training to become a teacher and took part in this with my previous school. It will heavily influence my teaching practice. I promise never to adopt the standard “teacher phrases” and will always try to make my classrooms calm spaces

Teacher

Very easy to understand, good (sometimes real) examples brought the learning to life. New suggestions for books for children was appreciated. Made me think of my own life experiences. Thank you

Teacher

I really found this course very helpful. I could relate to different children that I have dealt with over the years.....Words I have used could have used and dealt with better. I have learnt a lot from this. Thank you

Teacher

It has research behind it, it is relevant and gives lots of methods and tips to support children's emotional well being and ours as adults too.

Teacher

If you are in any doubt – believe me it’s fantastic!

Head Teacher

I really liked the fact it gave strategies for real-life scenarios, eg hiding under the table, running around the school. I love the idea of the lanyard as a reminder

Teacher

Clear information delivered well by someone who had experienced childhood trauma.

Teacher

All my TA’s have completed the first 3 modules of the online Therapeutic Teacher Training and have absolutely loved it! CPD in our locality has been pretty poor for ages but TPC has everyone hooked.

Head Teacher

I really enjoyed the professional but personal teaching style, how each points were unpicked with real life scenarios given. What was really useful was specific advice for alternative responses. It's great to also be provided with resources that can be used in the classroom.

Teacher

I found it helpful to be able to pause the video at times to reflect on what was being said. I didn't feel rushed or under pressure because of this which was important because there was a lot of really interesting content to think about.

Teacher

It deepened my understanding of children's behaviour. It gave me a better knowledge of the brain and its different parts. I now know more about trauma and triggers

Teacher

I just thought I would let you know how things had gone the last few days after implementing some special time for the little boy in my class. He has been much calmer in the afternoons... he really enjoys this time and it is really helping him to cope with lunch and the subsequent afternoon. I know it is very early days and this will take time but just wanted to say thank you.

Teacher

You provided me with some support for a child in my class who was having anxiety issues after mum having a new baby...This has reduced significantly. It really has supported his learning and most importantly his wellbeing.