Education

For mainstream and special schools, alternative provision and trusts: training that gives staff a shared way to read behaviour in a corridor before it escalates, and a common answer when it does.

Behaviour is the hardest part of the school day

Ofsted inspects behaviour and safety

Escalation starts at transition points

Support staff carry the hardest moments

Leaders must account for every response

Any physical response must be necessary, proportionate and the least restrictive option available at the time.

Our training standard

What a school day actually asks of staff

Staff leave able to name what they are seeing, hold a boundary without raising their voice, and pass a situation to a colleague while it is still small. Scenarios are built from your corridors, changeover times and the wording of your own behaviour policy.

01 Reading behaviour as communication

02 Holding a boundary without heat

03 Judgement in the first minute

04 Recording that stands up later

05 Inducting supply and cover staff

06 One behaviour language per school

07 Conversations with parents

08 Last-resort physical intervention

What school leaders ask us for

Training that fits the school day

Mapped to your behaviour policy

Consistency across your trust

Plain language for busy staff

Support that lasts past the course

Scenarios come from your corridors, your changeovers and your behaviour policy, run at the pace of an ordinary day.

How we work

The shape of a school engagement

It starts with one conversation about where behaviour is hardest, then a read of your policy and incident log before anything is planned.

01

We read your behaviour policy against what staff do at the door, watch a changeover, and ask where the last few incidents actually started.

Diagnose the setting

We read your behaviour policy against what staff do at the door, watch a changeover, and ask where the last few incidents actually started.

02

Staff rehearse the moments they dread in the rooms they work in: a refusal in a full corridor, a group that will not disperse, a child who will not leave.

Train in your school

Staff rehearse the moments they dread in the rooms they work in: a refusal in a full corridor, a group that will not disperse, a child who will not leave.

03

Before we leave, we agree a short standard for the first minute, briefings for cover staff, and a slot in a meeting cycle you already run.

Embed in the term

Before we leave, we agree a short standard for the first minute, briefings for cover staff, and a slot in a meeting cycle you already run.

04

We look at what your incident log records, what staff say has changed, and whether the same corridor keeps producing the same call for help.

Evaluate the change

We look at what your incident log records, what staff say has changed, and whether the same corridor keeps producing the same call for help.

Tell us where behaviour is hardest in your school

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Education

Behaviour is the hardest part of the school day

Ofsted inspects behaviour and safety

Escalation starts at transition points

Support staff carry the hardest moments

Leaders must account for every response

Any physical response must be necessary, proportionate and the least restrictive option available at the time.

Our training standard

What a school day actually asks of staff

01

Reading behaviour as communication

02

Holding a boundary without heat

03

Judgement in the first minute

04

Recording that stands up later

05

Inducting supply and cover staff

06

One behaviour language per school

07

Conversations with parents

08

Last-resort physical intervention

What school leaders ask us for

Scenarios come from your corridors, your changeovers and your behaviour policy, run at the pace of an ordinary day.

The shape of a school engagement