Exploring feelings through props, drama and speaking and listening.
Through ‘Curious Learning’ allow children the opportunity to explain how they are feeling, and then the words to describe those feelings and creative pieces of imaginative writing.
We do this by bringing a fantastically creative space into school and immersing the children in a creative world where they are encouraged to write through props, drama improvisations, imaginative stimulus and speaking and listening. We use small groups to build bonds and leave the children more resilient.
How we started
As professionals we started to look for solutions to the challenge of meeting children’s mental health needs in school. Our teaching colleagues were telling us that identifying children was a challenge as children with low confidence are often unable to vocalise their needs or ideas which then results in them being demotivated and falling further behind socially and academically than their peers.
What guides us
When it comes to issues of confidence and wellbeing, anxiety and behaviour we believe that we can best help the child by helping them form and maintain healthy relationships. Having identified the children who are not able to talk about their feelings we work with them over 6 weeks in small nurturing groups to help them towards being confident and resilient socially and in their written compositions. We then feedback to school and families with data collated to show progress.
What we currently do
We work with numerous schools across the North East of England running workshops for whole classers, or smaller groups. In the following weeks nurture sessions are run for identified children and wellbeing resilience outreach to families.
All our staff undergo rigorous safeguarding checks and are level 1 safeguard trained as well as hold an enhanced dbs that will be shared.
Evolving Education was founded by Claire, a passionate educator with over 24 years of experience. We believe all children learn differently, and our mission is to provide inclusive, supportive learning for every student. We offer a wide range of services, from home-schooling to CBT therapy, to empower learners of all ages and abilities.
