Training Opportunities
The Virtual School provides training throughout the year to equip designated teachers (and other adults who support our children) with the knowledge and skills they need to support children and young people. We work in partnership with the Educational Psychology Service to develop and deliver much of this training.
Our training offer includes:
This course provides three days training delivered by the Educational Psychology Service to explore attachment awareness and trauma informed practice in education settings. The course will explore behaviour and distress through a trauma informed and attachment aware lens. This course supports schools/settings to translate this learning into the context of individual schools/settings. Please note there is no charge for this training.
This training explores the statutory guidance on PEPs and talk through Nottinghamshire’s processes and documentation. The aim of this training is to work together to improve the quality and meaningfulness of PEPs for our children/young people in care.
This training has been designed to support adults with the skills to ‘respond in the moment’ (Golding) to ‘emotion coach’ children and young people when they are emotionally dysregulated.
This training is provided by the Nottinghamshire Virtual School for children looked after or previously looked after. The training will provide an opportunity to explore the statutory role of the Designated Teacher for looked after children and includes the extended role for children previously in care.
This training intends to explore attendance through a psychological lens and will include reflections from schools about frameworks and strategies for supporting and improving attendance.
Free training for up to three staff per school, focussing on understanding and supporting our children who were previously in care – including children who are adopted, children in kinship or special guardianship arrangements, children who are privately fostered and children in informal arrangements.
An opportunity for designated teachers, designated safeguarding leads and mental health leads to come together to support each other and share good practice around looked after children, previously looked after children and children with a social worker. These network meetings are organised specifically for independent non-maintained schools and alternative provision settings to enable sharing of good practice with peers from other settings.
