The Neurosequential Model in Education (NME), was developed as a result of Dr. Bruce Perry’s work with children who had experienced adverse events in their lives. Dr Perry is a psychiatrist in America and over the last few years he, along with colleagues at The Child Trauma Academy, developed NME as a classroom based approach, helping children and school staff learn about the brain and how trauma can impact on the brain and a child’s functioning.
Understanding our brains means that the brain grows and develops in a certain order. This knowledge is especially important in understanding how children learn and why they behave as they do. Better understanding of this means better understanding of how to teach and care for the wide variety of pupils that our school works with every day.
The Educational Psychology Service can support staff in supporting children to learn about how their brain grows and develops, how stress can impact on the brain and how children can learn to regulate his/her emotions to help him/her be ready to learn.
Further information on this approach can be viewed at:
