Course overview of Raising Attendance and Reducing Exclusions through Relational Practice
This Relational Practice course explores how behaviour and attendance are often linked to stress, development, and a child’s sense of safety - not simply “poor choices”.
You will learn how relational practice helps adults respond with calm, consistency and connection, supporting pupils to feel they belong and can succeed in school.
Through practical strategies and real-life case studies, you will build your confidence in reducing conflict, improving engagement, and strengthening outcomes for children and staff.
Course content
This Relational Practice course covers:
- Introduction
- Meet Our Children
- Brain Development
- Understanding Behaviour as Communication
- The impact of Stress on Children’s Behaviours: A Self-Reg Perspective
- School Exclusion
- Our Children’s School Journey
- The Building Blocks of Relational Practice
- Strategies for Regulation
- Relational Practice in Action: Zander
- Relational Practice in Action: Letisha
- Relational Practice in Action: Daniel
- Relational Practice in Action: Year 11 Boys
- Summary
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Aims of Raising Attendance and Reducing Exclusions through Relational Practice course
Upon completion of this Relational Practice course, you will be able to:
- Understand relational practice and reflect on how it can become part of your everyday practice.
- Gain strategies for practising relational practice techniques that you can apply within different scenarios.
- Learn how the nervous system influences our own behaviour and the children we teach.
- Consider how each case study was resolved using different relational practice techniques.
- Reflect on your own behaviours at school and how you can initiate individual regulation.
- Analyse your school's values and consider how to further incorporate organisational regulation into everyday practice.
What audience is this online course suitable for?
This Relational Practice course is for educators and school staff who want to use relational practice to improve attendance and reduce suspensions and exclusions, with practical strategies grounded in child development, behaviour and nervous system regulation.
