This free 16-page supplement (available as a pdf download by clicking the button below) includes articles from a number of experts as well as inspiring school case studies.
Ultimately, we ask how we might re-engage with these often-vulnerable young people and offer practical advice, ideas and tips for how we can tackle and address a range of different barriers to education.
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Articles in the supplement include:
- Getting attendance right: Poor school attendance can be a key warning sign of more serious problems to come for a vulnerable child. But how can we intervene to re-engage pupils and improve attendance?
- Emotionally based school avoidance: Five steps to re-engage with pupils who struggle to attend school.
- How to re-engage students in the classroom: What can classroom teachers do to re-engage unmotivated pupils in learning?
- Reigniting aspirations: A look at how Everton Free School's GOALS programme is helping to build relationships and aspirations.
- Connection and kindness: Supporting vulnerable teenagers requires us to connect with them, to be kind, to help them "belong", and to build relationships – some lessons from SEMH practice
- Case study: The golden rule: #knowyourstudents: St Edward's CE Academy
- Case study: A long-term inclusion plan: Shenley Brook End School
- Emotion coaching: Understanding what we feel
- Mental health: Strategies to handle anxiety
- Online alternative provision: How online provision can be a transformative learning alternative for vulnerable and at-risk students
The supplement has been produced by SecEd with kind support from Academy 21, an online alternative education provision.