We’ve got some lads in year 8 who we’re having problems with. It’s their behaviour and attitude to lessons and teachers. Could you please have a think about whether there’s any work you can do with them?
And so this led to my encounter with the group of four students who would make up my first nurture group in a secondary boys’ comprehensive in Bradford.
I visited two other secondaries in Bradford with burgeoning nurture groups, identifying the best practice elements of each which I could adapt on the basis of my own experience and student needs.
Having established my first group with just four students, I showed with hard evidence that our approach had a whole-school positive impact, working increasingly with colleagues across the curriculum to cascade the core features of a nurture approach to all staff.
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