Our Offer

Nurture is a tried and tested way of relating to children that helps them develop vital social skills, confidence and self-esteem, and become ready to learn.

The concept of nurture highlights the importance of social environments – who you are with and not who you are born to – and its significant influence on social and emotional skills, wellbeing and behaviour.

The nurturing approach  offers a range of opportunities for children and young people to engage with missing early nurturing experiences, giving them the social and emotional skills to do well at school and with peers, and to develop their resilience and self-confidence.  It  encourages pupils to take pride in achieving - addressing the social and emotional needs that can hamper learning. 

Our Nurture Offer is based on the six principles of nurture:

By ensuring these 6 principles are at the heart of learning , not only in our Nurture classes, but across the whole school, we can be confident we are becoming an increasingly  trauma-aware school.