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Improving school attendance using nurture

11 September 2025

Every school works hard to achieve full school attendance. When children and young people are…

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Start the year with insight: Why knowing your pupils matters

1 September 2025

The start of the new school year brings both excitement and uncertainty for many pupils.…

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Blackout poetry as creative expression for children

14 August 2025

Blackout poetry can be an excellent classroom or nurture group activity. It is a thoughtful,…

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Are you relationally literate?

21 July 2025

I was reminded this week about the history of the written word and how it…

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A child in a nurture group in school experiences "toast time" - a kind of nurture activity which involves the sharing of food. The child is holding a piece of toast to his mouth and looking at the camera.

Toast time as a nurture intervention

1 July 2025

What is toast time? How to start your own toast time The positive outcomes of…

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A secondary school classroom in a school with rows of desks and chairs facing a whiteboard.

Nurture in secondary schools from a pupil perspective

20 June 2025

“Nurturing, personalised and engaging.” That’s how Year 11 pupil Phoebe would describe her primary school…

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School kids sit on a bench chatting to each other calmly.

The importance of mindfulness for children

5 June 2025

Mindfulness for children is an excellent way to confront school anxiety, trauma, or stress, and…

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Two teachers are in a classroom or nurture room. They are addressing the class and smiling.

Why you should become a nurture group trained practitioner

27 May 2025

There are numerous books, research journals, and media about nurture group practices, and many schools…

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A young pupil is pictured in a school playground. She appears to be happily preoccupied with an activity; a teacher looks on in the background, supervising. The playground is colourful and welcoming and could be a nurture intervention for the child.

How I created a nurturing playground in my infant school

21 May 2025

I was introduced to nurture groups in the early 2000s in an article in a…

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