All classes utilise the Gallery Toolkit. This is a selection of resources that comprise the design of classrooms across the school and equip classroom teams with a set of restorative de-escalation tools to support the students within their class.
These tools include:
Visual timetable:
- Routine and clear expectations for the day.
- Helps to create security and promotes feelings of safety.
- Consistent picture prompts help students with low levels of literacy to access and understand this resource.
Learning Passports:
- Helps to promote reflection.
- Chance to celebrate success.
- Creates physical transition points.
- Provides teachers with language to use when supporting pupils.
- Learning Passports Good Practice and Guidance Document
Now and Next Boards:
- Helps to break up the day into manageable chunks.
- Offers incentives to support engagement.
Class Celebrations:
- Celebrates success for all.
- Fosters sense of community.
- Highlights and reinforces positive behaviour/learning choices.
- Prompts feelings of acceptance and validation.
Emotional Check-ins:
- Starts to support development of emotional literacy.
- Promotes understanding that all feelings are valid.
- Creates Physical Transition points between lessons and activities
- Emotional Check-ins Good Practice and Guidance Documents
Mend it Meetings:
- Promotes Restorative Practices.
- Focuses on relationship building.
- Enables conflicts to be resolved with definitive outcomes.
Brain Breaks:
- Allows a pupil to be heard.
- Takes account of pupils’ individual needs while empowering class adults to be seen as maintaining control.
- Prompts reflection and starts the process of self identification of triggers, thoughts, feelings and emotions.
These tools were developed to ensure that we provide our students with persistent exposure to opportunities that will develop their emotional literacy. The utilisation of these tools within all classes ensures that we provide maximal opportunity and consistency to do this throughout their school life. They form part of our universal offer for all students.