Attachment Based Beginnings

As our transition project 2025/26 comes to an end, we would like to invite one teacher per school to attend a full day of Attachment Based Beginnings training on 15^th June at the Future Skills Centre, Exeter Airport. The training and refreshments will be funded, but lunch and the cost of your supply cover will not be.

This training will be delivered by Matt Jones, Relational Restorative Practice Lead and Catherine Dunnett, Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist.

Objectives:

Attachment Based Beginnings is designed to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding of staff working with pre-reception and reception children aged 2 years plus.

The course explores some of the theories which underpin our understanding of effective relationships and their role in development, learning and well-being as well as developing the skills and practical strategies that we need to use in our work with children.

The course covers:

• Why significant relationships are the key to development, learning and wellbeing (particularly in the early years)

• The neurobiology of emotions, behaviour and social development

• Attachment theory

• The impact of anxious attachments on thoughts, feelings and behaviour and what we can do to help

• The cornerstones of relationships – protection, connection, understanding and care