Prioritising Relationships
As an adoption-friendly school, we:
- Understand relational trauma and how relationships develop for children with and without good enough parenting
- Understand traumatised children’s needs for attachment, regulation and competence
- Provide key adults for vulnerable children
- Support the child and family with a team around the child
- Ensure that all staff interact with children in a validating and empathic way
- Ensure that our systems and procedures back up the importance of relationships
- Ensure that adults set the tone in their relationships with each other
- Help adults and children to find the joy in their relationships