TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2017ANTRIM

NURTURING THE NURTURERS – EMBEDDING A CULTURE OF NURTURE FOR STAFF, PUPILS AND PARENTS

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THE NURTUREGROUP NETWORK

What we doEARLY INTERVENTION We help thousands of nurture groups and nurturing schools across the United Kingdom and internationally to develop children’s and young people’s social and emotional skills, build resilience and help form healthy attachments to school.

TRAINING & CONSULTANCY We deliver training and consultancy support to teachers and schools applying nurturing principles across their work.

AWARENESS We organise conferences and campaigns to raise awareness about the importance of nurture, motivating practitioners and policy makers to apply nurturing principles.

IMPACT & EVIDENCE We gather, analyse and use evidence to evaluate and improve the nurturing approach.

Who should attend?This conference is open to nurture staff, education staff, health staff, social workers, foster or kinship carers, police, policy makers, family support workers, early years, primary and secondary teachers who wish to learn more about nurturing approaches or refresh their existing knowledge.

Who we are

The Nurture Group Network (NGN) is a charity aiming to break cycles of low achievement by ensuring that an unequal start in life does not mean an unequal chance to engage with learning. NGN works to promote the use of nurturing principles in education, ensuring that every disadvantaged or disengaged child has access to a nurturing intervention, allowing them to develop the skills and resilience they need to make the most of learning and school.

If you are unfamiliar with nurture, take a look at our website www.nurturegroups.org to see what teachers, parents and pupils big and small have to say about it. See quotes straight from the heart of those who have benefitted from nurture and understand how it could help you and your pupils.

Conference chairGarry Matthewson

Garry Matthewson is the current chairperson of the Northern Ireland Nurture Group Network (NINGN). He has also been Principal of Holy Family Primary and Nursery School in Derry for the past 17 years. He was the former associate assessor with the Education and Training Inspectorate and is the current assessor with the Catholic Council for Maintained Schools. He was a former member of the Department of Education Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Steering Group and is currently a member of the Department of Education Nurture Project Development Group.

Keynote speakersKevin Kibble

Levels of nurturing practice

Kevin Kibble is Chief Executive at the Nurture Group Network. Kevin is passionate about the power of education in effecting societal change. Kevin is a Fellow and founding trustee of The College of Teaching, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising (IoF), and Chair of the IoF Nominations Committee.

In this keynote, Kevin will explore the different levels that schools can embed a nurturing ethos. Using the nurture pyramid as a base for implementing nurture in different ways, Kevin will offer anecdotes and examples from MBQMA and NNSP awarded schools as to how they have used the nurture approach in their creative practice. Kevin will give examples of activities schools are using to support wellbeing for nurture rooms, classrooms and even on a whole school level.

Helen Stollery

Nurturing your wellbeing as a professional

Helen joined NGN as a National Training Officer in September 2007 and is now the Head of Training. She comes from a teaching background, working as a mainstream teacher for some time. While teaching, Helen set up and ran a nurture group within an infant school.

Wellbeing in schools is a fundamental prerequisite for healthy and productive quality teaching and learning. Both children and teachers need to be supported, fit and well to be inspired and inspiring. This keynote will introduce practitioners to the Wellbeing Toolkit for professionals, which is a programme of professional development to promote and maintain resilience and personal effectiveness. Helen will discuss the tools that professionals can adopt to ensure their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others around them.

The Nurture Group Network exists to promote the development of nurture groups and to ensure the continuing quality of their delivery through accredited training programmes, research on effective practice, relevant publications and information exchange. Its aim is to make the nurture group approach available to all pupils who need it and also to ensure that the connections between learning and early development are understood throughout education.

WorkshopsClaire Eccleshall

Staff wellbeing through singing

Claire has been involved in NGN for many years. She had a long career as a nurture group practitioner and an associate trainer for NGN before joining the team as a training officer.

Around the world, across all societies and religions and ethnic groups, singing has been a significant feature of human behaviour throughout time. Singing can make you cry, singing can make you laugh and singing can ignite your passions. Singing is also wonderful for relationships and connecting people spiritually and naturally. Singing creates a positive energy and a happy mood that is infectious and transparently good for everyone. Being a nurture practitioner is uniquely demanding and can be emotionally draining at times. We often spend so much time worrying and caring for our pupils, so much so that we neglect our own wellbeing. This workshop looks at the benefits of singing for emotional and physical wellbeing and looks at ways to bring music into your everyday life to experience the spiritual and uplifting effect that singing can bring.

Yvonne Monaghan

Engaging parents

Yvonne is Head of Consultancy at The Nurture Group Network and has been working with children who exhibit social, emotional and behavioural needs for nearly 30 years within both primary and secondary special school settings. She was previously the co-ordinator for social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing (SEMH) for the targeted education support services working with and supporting mainstream and special schools in the Wigan Local Authority. Yvonne has been involved with developing and supporting nurture groups for many years, (a passion that was inspired by Marion Bennathan’s keynote at a conference held 14 years ago) Yvonne also completed her MA focusing on the use of the six principles of nurture.

This workshop focuses on why parental engagement is so important for a successful nurture group using research and The Department for Education inspectorate guidance to highlight what works and focus ideas. The aim is to highlight ways to break down barriers and build positive relationships with even difficult to reach parents. The workshop looks at the Family SEAL approach and gives practical strategies to develop this to become Family Nurture. In addition there is an opportunity to look at MBQMA groups and discover what makes best practice for parental engagement within the award.

Clare Reed

An introduction to Nurturing Talk @ Primary

Clare Reed has over 20 years teaching experience, mainly in inner-city schools working across the Primary phase as a class teacher, language specialist, Science Coordinator, Learning Mentor Manager, Performing Arts Coordinator and Literacy Coordinator. Clare has been a Speech, Language and Communication Consultant since 2006.

Nurturing Talk @ Primary was developed and written by Clare Reed of Education Works Ltd in conjunction with Helen Stollery and Claire Eccleshall from The Nurture Group Network. It is a targeted and flexible intervention programme to develop children’s language and thought processes, helping them to talk effectively with other children and adults. It is designed to be used with children with social, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties, initially on a one-to-one basis but moving on to partner work and then being able to operate successfully in small groups. Each child will have a different time scale working with the programme depending on their personal needs and developmental stage.

Wendy Roden

60 Motivational Minutes

Wendy has had a long career in teaching and in developing and supporting nurture groups. Wendy has worked with schools to develop innovative approaches and systemic change targeted towards addressing some of the barriers to learning experienced by children and young people.

This workshop is a brief introduction to Dr. Tina Rae’s new resource ‘60 Motivational Minutes’ following on from the successful ‘60 Mindful Minutes’ and ‘60 Sensory Minutes’. The resource introduces students to the key insights of positive psychology; i.e. the importance of being connected to others, making and keeping friends, using and celebrating strengths and holding a thoughtful attitude rather than being reactive to whatever happens to us.

“The 60 Motivational Minutes activities aim to teach students the skills that are essential for building optimism and resilience, how to recognise and combat negative thoughts that bring about loss of self- esteem and even depression and to understand that there are certain ways of thinking that they can employ to make their lives go better.” (Rae, 2017)

Rae, T. (2017) 60 Motivational Minutes: Using Tools of Positive Psychology in the Nurture Group. London: NGN

Kirsten Mann

Supporting staff through coaching conversations

Kirsten joined NGN in 2015 as the National Training Officer for Scotland. As an experienced primary teacher with a background in support for learning she has taught in a range of settings, has set up and run nurture groups, was a school-based dyslexia adviser and just prior to joining NGN, was principal teacher of a language and communication resource.

Those in support and advisory roles can be looked upon as the ‘experts who will come up with strategies and know all the answers.’ A school once phoned a behaviour support service to send a teacher out because a pupil had climbed up a tree and wouldn’t come down. The behaviour support teacher had never met this pupil before yet there was a perception this person had some specific expertise or perhaps even magic powers! This workshop is aimed at anyone who has a role in offering advice and support to staff. Coaching conversations help staff to tease out the specific issues when facing challenging situations, can guide, support and tap into their own expertise. They have the potential to help staff develop strategies to support their pupils in ways that are sustainable within their context and support positive relationships. The workshop will briefly cover theories of mentoring and coaching and provide opportunities to practise coaching conversations using a simple framework.

Booking formAll booking forms should be sent to Gillian Fewins, Nurture Group Network, 18A Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PB T: 020 3475 8980 E: conferences@nurturegroups.org

Closing date Friday 17 November 2017Please return this form with payment or call our office to pay using a credit or debit card

A Nurture Group Network Conference: The Nurture Group Network Annual Northern Ireland Conference

The Dunsilly Hotel, 20 Dunsilly Rd, Antrim BT41 2JH

Price: £150+VAT 10% discount for membersTuesday 21 November 2017

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An introduction to Nurturing Talk @ Primary

An introduction to Nurturing Talk @ Primary

Conference programmeRegistration

Conference open – Garry Matthewson

Kevin Kibble – Levels of nurturing practice

Yvonne Monaghan – Engaging parents

Break

08:30 – 09:00

09:00 – 19:15

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10:45 – 11:15

The venueThe Dunsilly Hotel, 20 Dunsilly Rd, Antrim BT41 2JH

LocationBy carThe Dunsilly Hotel is located just off junction one of the M2 in Antrim, on the A26.

By trainJust seven minutes taxi from Antrim station, The Dunsilly Hotel is easily accessible for those travelling by train.

By airThe Dunsilly Hotel is conveniently located just a 10 minute drive from Belfast International Airport.

Choice one of four workshops11:15 – 12:15

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

Choice one of four workshops

Helen Stollery – Nurturing your wellbeing as a professional

Conference close – Garry Matthewson

13:15 – 14:15

14:15 – 15:15

15:15 – 15:30

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Cancellation policy Prior to 5pm 60 days before event: Full refund excluding 10% administration fee5pm 59 days prior to the event: 50% refundAfter 5pm 30 days prior to the event: No refundExceptional circumstances are considered at NGN’s sole discretion and will result in a credit note, not a refund.

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