Identify and complete appropriate assessments to establish a greater understanding of the child’s needs and inform group interventions, for example:
- Boxall Profile;
- Child and Youth Resiliency Measure;
- The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ);
- Emotional Literacy Assessment.
Offer small group interventions to promote positive peer interactions including:
- Time to Talk;
- Talkabout;
- Circle of Friends;
- FRIENDS Programme;
- S. S Grin;
- Nurture Groups;
- ELSA interventions for emotional development;
- Lego Therapy;
- Friendship formula book (LDA);
- Socially Speaking.
The following strategies can be shared with parents alongside use in school to support attachment needs:
- Use Lego intervention or similar to support building a relationship with an adult.
- Provide opportunities for small world play and story sharing alongside an adult to support conversation development and build trust.
- Provide a ‘running commentary’ for younger children who struggle to express themselves or need to develop language skills.
Complete a class sociogram to identify friendship groups within the class.
Creative cafe - children come together to prepare and share food. Lots of opportunity to build relationships create a safe place to talk.