Relationships and Crises in Schools – Part 1
An interview about Behaviour in Schools.Firstly, in your opinion what is the core principle that should drive a school’s overall approach to behaviour? The first thing we should talk about is an idea called the social contract. It’s a concept – a contract, really – that should bind everybody in a service or institution or […]
Positive Handling Learning Outcomes for Primary Schools
Children have diverse needs, and sometimes, adults need to intervene to support them. Positive handling is a technique used to ensure that children are safe and their dignity is maintained during any form of intervention. With the right training, staff in primary schools can learn positive handling techniques that will help them to support children […]
The Culture of Communication in Schools
Can I get Positive Handling training specifically for Irish schools?
Dynamis trainers recently delivered positive handling training for a number of Irish schools. What did our team notice? And what recommendations might we make to other Irish schools following our experiences so far?
A Tour of our Online Training in Positive Handling for Schools
Take a Tour of Our Online Positive Handling Training Course We have provided hundreds of schools across the country with the option to train their staff using online technology and learning systems, since 2014. Having built up a lot of experience with how to deliver training using our own unique implementation of the powerful Moodle […]
Feedback: absolutely applicable to the demands of a primary school
Dersingham primary school Nursery NurseOur instructor very knowledgeable and was happy to answer all questions and discuss any scenario that we brought up. Plus he had a good sense of humour and was very patient. Westlands community primary schoolSenco and assistant HeadteacherThe trainer was really good at assessing the needs of the group. All questions, […]
Protecting relationships when reopening schools
Hi its Gerard here from Dynamis with some great information I came across this week. I listened to an excellent webinar from our partners at Vistelar. Two of their most experienced trainers got together to talk about how we will welcome the children back to school. What caught my attention about the discussion was that […]
Outstanding Feedback from our 2019 courses
More than double, and yet the numbers all improved! Last year we collected more than double the number of learner surveys than in the previous year, to find out how we are doing. I watch these feedback surveys come in to the business every single day and watch for trends as part of our quality […]
SEN Classroom Management – because you have a respectful language, the community is safer to work in
“Hi, my name is Katie Dill, and I am a special education teacher from Winnebago School District in Northern Illinois. I chose Vistelar as a teacher in the educational field because this is “how we do things”. In the professional field we know that we often get told we just have to respond. We have […]
Managing High-Risk Behaviours in Secondary Schools