Relational Practice – the heart of Hamish & Milo
Relational practice is the essential element of connection and emotional safety that enables children to develop, learn, adapt to their environment and to thrive.
Relational practice is the essential element of connection and emotional safety that enables children to develop, learn, adapt to their environment and to thrive.
Clare Williams, our author and creator discussed this with Dale Pickles on SENDcast, an award-winning weekly podcast focusing on Special Educational Needs. In the episdoe ‘Creating a SEMH inclusive school’, Clare discusses the pressing need for schools to adopt practices that foster social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) support for ALL students, not just those with SEND.
Do you know a school that you think would really benefit from the Hamish & Milo SEMH intervention programme and resources, as we are gifting £2,500 worth this festive season?
This years theme is 'My Voice Matters'. Helping children talk and express their feelings about what is happening in their lives share experiences, develop empathy and friendships in a small group environment of safety, value and belonging is central to our whole approach.
In education it is often said that what gets assessed gets addressed and whilst we know measuring social and emotional learning (SEL) and SEMH can be tricky we believe that evaluating the impact of interventions is vital.
Anti-bullying week which aims to encourage and celebrate diversity. Celebrating differences and acknowledging similarities is powerful in allowing us to be true to ourselves and to value who we are. Free activity!
Compass is a tool and checklist to identify individual child strengths and areas of need for social and emotional skill development.
For Mental Health Awareness Week 2023, the focus is Anxiety. The reality is desperate when we see exceptionally high numbers of children and teenagers that are struggling with their mental health and, in particular, different forms of anxiety. A record number of more than 400,000 children a month are being treated for mental health problems.
In this webinar Clare discusses the need for a whole school culture in making a difference for children, particularly those with SEMH needs, how to support children to manage in a learning context when they're struggling with their social and emotional development and mental health and how we create a culture built on the principles of wellbeing and relationships.
There are at least 50,000 children who are deaf in the UK and sadly deaf children are at far higher risk of developing mental illness than their hearing peers. The theme for Deaf Awareness Week is Deaf Inclusion, exploring the entire theme of inclusion within communities...