Course Overview

Discover how play and relationships shape wellbeing in both teaching and learning. This engaging course explores how child-led play can be used in all class settings to foster wellbeing, social inclusion and nurture creativity. This course delves into social and emotional development, the nervous system and attachment—offering insights into how these elements shape our interactions, experiences and relationships. This course aims to support teachers in reconnecting with their own playful side while gaining value insights to support their own personal development. Finally, participants will be supported in devising a framework for creating a whole school plan based on Experiential Wellbeing to enhance social inclusion and in line with the Department of Educations 'Wellbeing Policy Statement & Framework for Practice.'

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the value of child-led play through the lens of wellbeing, social & emotional development and social inclusion.
• Explore how the nervous system works and learn to identify and understand the ‘Language of the Nervous System’.
• Identify the skills necessary to nurture a supportive teacher-pupil relationship underpinned by an understanding of attachment theory.
• Look specifically at ordinary everyday interactions to foster connection, emotional balance, resilience, insight and empathy.
• Support teachers in reconnecting with their own innate playfulness to foster social inclusion.
• Explore creating a whole school plan to promote experiential wellbeing in line with the Department of Education’s ‘Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice’, based around play and relationships (informed by educational neuroscience) in line with SSE.