Attachment Aware School

We are delighted to announce that we have successfully achieved an Attachment Aware Schools Silver Award 2023/2024.

The roots of a child or young person’s social emotional wellbeing are found in their first attachment to their primary caregiver.  Here at Ellingham, we understand the importance of building and nurturing positive relationships. ‘Every interaction is an intervention’.

The year long attachment aware schools award programme involved training from AfC virtual school, coaching from a team of Educational Psychologists, on-site whole school training in attachment and emotion coaching and development of a whole school change project based on findings from the Attachment Aware Schools audit.  As a result of our award, we have increased our knowledge of attachment and emotion coaching, developed a shared language and implementation of the CALM Approach.  We also created our SNUG (Support, Nurture, Understanding and Guidance).  Our SNUG is used for ELSA sessions and provides children with a nurturing, safe space.

We are now embarking on achieving the Gold Award.  Watch this space!