A comprehensive, 3-hour CPD course covering SLCN and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) — a condition more common than autism, yet one of the least recognised in schools. Across 7 modules, you’ll cover the difference between speech, language and pragmatic difficulties, proven strategies like reducing language complexity and recasting, and dedicated, accurate guidance on selective mutism and stammering. The course covers the well-evidenced link between undetected communication difficulties and behaviour, plus working effectively with speech and language therapists. A one-page pupil profile template is included in the worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A comprehensive, 3-hour CPD course covering attachment theory and its practical application in the classroom. Across 6 modules, you’ll learn to recognise the four attachment styles and how they present in pupils, reframe behaviours often mistaken for defiance or laziness, and apply the PACE approach (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy) in daily practice. The course covers adapting transitions and routines, responding to dysregulation through co-regulation before correction, avoiding shame-based discipline, and building whole-school consistency including key adult systems and staff wellbeing. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: whole-staff INSET training, SENCO-led CPD, pastoral team development, or individual professional development hours. Pairs well with our Trauma-Informed Practice course.

A practical, 1-hour CPD course covering proportionate, working risk assessment for outdoor and animal-based learning — not a box-ticking exercise, but a genuine safety tool. This course covers the five steps of risk assessment, outdoor environment hazards, animal-specific hazards including zoonotic disease and welfare considerations, a simple risk rating approach, and how to write specific, effective control measures rather than vague disclaimers. The course also covers consent, supervision ratios, emergency planning, and common mistakes seen in school risk assessments. A working risk assessment template is included in the accompanying worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) and animal behaviourist (BSc) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: outdoor learning leads, forest school practitioners, animal handling sessions, educational visit coordinators, or individual professional development hours.

A comprehensive, 3-hour CPD course covering ADHD as a genuine difference in executive function, not a discipline problem. Across 7 modules, you’ll cover the three ADHD presentations and why ADHD is often missed, especially in girls, and how executive function differences explain common classroom difficulties like losing items or missing deadlines. The course covers structuring the environment for success, evidence-based communication strategies, supporting self-regulation and reducing impulsivity-related conflict, and building individual profiles with basic medication awareness. A one-page pupil profile template is included in the worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A comprehensive, 3-hour CPD course covering an accurate, strengths-aware understanding of autism and detailed, evidence-based classroom strategies. Across 7 modules, you’ll cover the core areas of difference, masking and its real cost, and proven visual supports including visual timetables, structured teaching, and Social Stories. The course covers evidence-based communication strategies, sensory regulation including the crucial meltdown versus tantrum distinction, and supporting social understanding without pressuring pupils into exhausting masking. A one-page pupil profile template is included in the worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course for the everyday reality of mixed-needs teaching: one class, one teacher, and several different needs at once. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning and the EEF’s five evidence-based adaptive teaching principles, this course focuses on sustainable, whole-class systems rather than unsustainable individual differentiation for every pupil separately. The course covers prioritising sensibly when different pupils’ needs conflict, whole-class routines that support many needs simultaneously, effective TA deployment, and keeping records sustainable across a whole class. This is the foundation course for our full SEND CPD series. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course showing how to give pupils a genuine role in real scientific research — a rare and powerful motivator in school science. Across 6 modules, you’ll cover choosing the right project for your key stage, teaching accurate data collection and recording skills, and linking projects to your curriculum across science, maths, geography and literacy. The course also covers helping pupils understand their genuine real-world contribution, and how to share and evaluate findings with the wider school community. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) and animal behaviourist (BSc) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: science leads, outdoor learning coordinators, or individual professional development hours.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course focused on understanding and responding to the crisis cycle in pupils with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs. Across 6 modules, you’ll learn the five stages of the crisis cycle, prevention strategies that reduce the frequency of incidents, and the low-arousal approach — proven techniques for staying calm and helping a pupil find calm in return. The course covers avoiding power struggles, responding safely at crisis point, supporting recovery and restorative conversations, and building individual behaviour support plans. This course does not cover physical intervention techniques, which require separate accredited training such as Team Teach. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: SENCOs, pastoral leads, behaviour support staff, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course for the gap nearly half of school staff say they struggle with most: supporting a pupil who shows clear signs of need but has no formal diagnosis or SEND designation. Grounded in the current SEND Code of Practice and the Graduated Approach (Assess, Plan, Do, Review), this course covers the four broad areas of need, universal adaptive teaching strategies that work without a label, and how to build a simple, useful record while waiting for referral. The course also covers talking with parents sensitively, when and how to escalate to your SENCO, and a clear, current overview of proposed 2026 SEND reforms — clearly flagged as proposals, not yet law. A working Assess-Plan-Do-Review log template is included in the worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: SENCOs, class teachers, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 1-hour CPD course giving educators a clear framework for making welfare-first decisions when animals are part of teaching. Using the five welfare needs and current thinking on positive animal wellbeing, this course covers recognising stress versus wellbeing signs, species-specific considerations, and an ethical decision-making framework for whether and how to include an animal in a session. The course also covers safe, respectful handling practice, talking to pupils about welfare in a way that models genuine respect, and common ethical pitfalls to avoid. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) and animal behaviourist (BSc) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: animal handling sessions, forest school practitioners, farm and zoo educators, or individual professional development hours.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course mapping nature-based, hands-on learning directly onto the EYFS framework — showing how outdoor provision supports every area of learning, not just Understanding the World. Across 6 modules, you’ll cover practical provision ideas for the prime and specific areas of learning, supporting healthy risky play, loose parts and sensory play for language development, and setting up continuous outdoor provision. The course also covers weather-proofing your provision year-round and communicating the value of outdoor, “messy” learning to parents. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) and animal behaviourist (BSc) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: EYFS practitioners, nursery and reception staff, forest school leads, or individual professional development hours.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course applying core safeguarding principles specifically to outdoor, off-site, and residential learning contexts, where usual lines of sight and familiar routines don’t always apply. Across 6 modules, you’ll cover outdoor-specific risks including remote locations, transport, and external providers, safer working practice for 1:1 situations and photography, and how signs of harm can present differently outdoors. The course also covers golden rules for responding to a disclosure while off-site, reporting procedures, vetting external providers and volunteers, and building a safeguarding-aware outdoor learning policy. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: Designated Safeguarding Leads, outdoor learning coordinators, educational visit leads, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course covering language acquisition theory and detailed, evidence-based scaffolding strategies for EAL learners — a genuine gap as classrooms grow increasingly multilingual and specialist language hub funding shrinks. Across 6 modules, you’ll cover why EAL is a language difference and not a SEND need, the BICS/CALP distinction explaining why playground fluency isn’t academic fluency, and the normal, healthy “silent period” many new learners go through. The course covers practical scaffolding strategies that reduce language demand without lowering academic challenge, valuing home language through translanguaging, and working sensitively with EAL families. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, EAL coordinators, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course tackling the single most commonly reported daily classroom challenge: not crisis-level incidents, but constant talking, calling out, and slow settling. Across 6 modules, you’ll cover the evidence base behind what actually reduces disruption (drawing on EEF guidance and established voices like Tom Bennett, Paul Dix, and Doug Lemov), proactive entry routines and transitions, and a clear hierarchy of least-invasive intervention that avoids public confrontation. The course also covers building a positive classroom culture through specific praise, staying “warm and strict” rather than one or the other, and maintaining consistency across a whole school. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: whole-staff INSET training, ECT induction, behaviour policy development, or individual professional development hours.

A comprehensive, 3-hour CPD course covering dyslexia and related specific learning difficulties, dispelling common myths along the way (dyslexia is not about “seeing letters backwards,” and is unrelated to intelligence). Across 7 modules, you’ll cover dyspraxia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia alongside dyslexia, structured literacy and multisensory teaching techniques, and practical classroom accommodations for reading, writing and organisation. The course covers protecting pupil self-esteem and building a strengths-based identity, plus identification, formal assessment, and exam access arrangements. A one-page pupil profile template is included in the worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.

A practical, 1-hour CPD course helping staff support pupils experiencing bereavement or significant loss. Grief in childhood is common, complex, and rarely linear — this course gives you a developmentally-informed understanding of how children experience grief at different ages, how to recognise it in the classroom, and what to say (and avoid saying) to a grieving child and their family. This course covers how children’s understanding of death develops by age, common signs of grief that don’t look like sadness, practical day-to-day classroom strategies, and clear guidance on when to seek additional support. A full reflection worksheet is included to help you apply the learning to a specific pupil in your setting. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: staff CPD sessions, pastoral team development, SENCO-led training, or individual professional development hours.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course showing how the unpredictability of the natural world makes it a uniquely powerful setting for building genuine growth mindset — far beyond posters and slogans. Across 5 modules, you’ll explore the theory of growth mindset, why nature offers real, low-pressure challenge classrooms often can’t, and ready-to-use outdoor activities including challenge ladders, growing projects, animal care tasks, and den building. The course also covers process-focused praise language, the power of reframing with “not yet,” and how to plan a session and embed the approach across your setting. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) and animal behaviourist (BSc) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: staff CPD sessions, outdoor learning leads, forest school practitioners, or individual professional development hours.

A practical, 1-hour CPD course exploring anger as a normal, protective emotion — and how to help pupils express it safely rather than trying to eliminate it. Using the “anger iceberg” model, this course helps staff recognise the emotions often hidden underneath anger (fear, shame, hurt, embarrassment) and respond calmly rather than escalating a moment further. Across the course you’ll cover recognising early triggers and warning signs, calm low-arousal de-escalation techniques, avoiding power struggles, restorative post-incident conversations, and strategies for staying regulated yourself under pressure. A full reflection worksheet with a de-escalation checklist is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: staff CPD sessions, behaviour policy training, SENCO-led training, or individual professional development hours.

A practical, 1-hour CPD course helping staff recognise and respond to loneliness in the classroom — a difficulty that’s easy to miss, since a pupil can be surrounded by classmates and still feel deeply isolated. This course covers the crucial distinction between chosen solitude and unwanted loneliness, how isolation presents differently by age, and practical strategies for building genuine classroom connection and belonging. You’ll explore structured buddy systems, inclusive classroom culture, individual support strategies, and language that helps rather than dismisses a lonely pupil’s experience, along with clear guidance on when to escalate concerns. A full reflection worksheet is included. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: staff CPD sessions, pastoral team development, anti-bullying leads, or individual professional development hours.

A focused, 1-hour foundational CPD course placing SEMH clearly within the SEND picture — as a genuine area of need, not a behaviour label. This course covers the range SEMH spans, from anxiety to conduct-related difficulty, and the crucial internalising versus externalising distinction that means quiet, anxious pupils get missed as often as disruptive ones get noticed. The course covers where SEMH overlaps with other SEND areas, a simple calm-curious-consistent first-response framework, and a clear course map pointing to our deeper SEMH-focused courses (Attachment-Aware Practice, Trauma-Informed Practice, Anger Management, and De-escalation for SEMH Pupils) for detailed, hands-on strategies. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: staff new to SEMH, whole-staff INSET introductions, or as a starting point before our deeper SEMH courses.

A practical, 2-hour CPD course covering all eight sensory systems — including the lesser-known vestibular, proprioceptive and interoceptive senses — and how sensory differences show up across autism, ADHD, dyspraxia and anxiety. Across 6 modules, you’ll cover hyper- and hypo-responsivity, sensory seeking versus avoiding patterns, and proactive environmental adaptations and sensory tools. The course covers sensory diets and sensory circuits, and recognising and responding safely to sensory overload before it peaks. A one-page sensory profile template is included in the worksheet. Written by a qualified teacher (Cert Ed) and animal behaviourist (BSc) with over 10 years’ experience across further education, SEND provision and pastoral care. Ideal for: class teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, or whole-staff INSET training.