Important information for School Leadership Teams
- All offers on Business World will be delivered live through TEAMS.
- All attendees are expected to complete an online evaluation form after the session
We welcome enquiries for bespoke face to face input from schools or clusters as we continue to strengthen our cluster working model and partnerships.
Inset day offer: Tuesday 19th August 2025
All other cluster-based offers for Tuesday 19th August are being agreed and organised directly with IWS teaching staff.
| Tuesday 19th August 2025
11.00 – 12.30 |
SBC Includes: Introduction to Nurturing approaches
This session will be based on the Introduction to Nurturing Approaches SBC Video, facilitated as a live online session. |
Target audience:
Induction opportunity for individual staff new to SBC |
Delivered via TEAMS – Link below |
| Session name | Outcomes | Additional info | BW Dates | To Book |
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Conflict Resolution Skills (running over 4 sessions) |
Exploring
1) What is conflict and how does it escalate? 2) Active listening skills 3) Working with pupils on conflict resolution 4) Supporting pupils to develop conflict resolution skills |
· Mainstream ANA training offer, running over 4 sessions.
· Attendance at all sessions is required. |
5 September 2025
12 September 2025 26 September 2025 3 October 2025 All sessions 9.15am – 10.00am |
Booking through Business World
For more info:
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| CIRCLE toolkit
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Themes can include:
· To understand the context of CIRCLE. · To become familiar with CIRCLE Inclusive Classroom Scale (CICS). · To reflect on how to use this in your context. · Introduce Circle Participation Scale (CPS). · Explore how to use the CPS to support inclusive practice. · Identify next steps in integrating the CIRCLE tools (CICS & CPS) into your practice. |
· Whole school approach
· CAT sessions
Access to a paper or digital copy (downloadable from https://www.thirdspace.scot/circle/education-resources/ ) of the document will be required to fully participate in the session. |
· Leadership team consultations available.
· Self-serve options available. · Further support options on request. |
For more info or for bespoke group bookings:
Email Emma Auty eauty@scotborders.gov.uk or Doug Crabbe Douglas.Crabbe@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Restore and Repair | Themes will include:
· effective communication · relationships or friendships · empathy and understanding for another person’s perspective · respect (this could mean a sense of security, self-confidence, self-respect, or dignity) · understanding the impact of our own behaviour on others · repairing harm |
· Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals |
26th Nov 2025 (Wed)
4 – 5.30pm |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke group bookings: Email Doug Crabbe |
| Expectations and Consequences | Themes will include:
· Expectations, structures and boundaries · The importance of values and language · Consequences – positive, natural and logical · The principles and learning behind logical consequences |
· Available for Whole school /Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals
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30th Sept 2025 (Tue)
4 – 5.30pm |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Email Doug Crabbe |
| Scripting: Confident and Positive Responses | Using simple, consistent clear and positive language to promote regulation and de-escalation | · Available for Whole school /Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals |
5th March 2026 (Thurs)
4.00 – 5.30pm |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Email Paddy Burke pburke@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Understanding and responding to behaviours including de-escalation skills | 1. Understand where behaviour comes from
2. Identifying signs of dysregulation 3. How to support the children we work with and each other |
· Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals
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16th Sept 2025 (Tues)
4.00 – 5.30 |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Email Doug Crabbe |
| Supporting Beginner Bilingual learners in the Mainstream Setting
(Primary and Secondary) |
To raise awareness of the specific learning needs of Beginner bilingual learners in the primary and secondary setting.
To provide an insight into second language acquisition and how this impacts on English language acquisition. To look at strategies to help Beginner bilingual learners access the curriculum. |
· Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals
|
Thursday 2nd October 2025
4 – 5.30pm |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Liz Scarpa gw09scarpaliz@glowmail.org.uk or Jane Bryant |
| Supporting Established Bilingual Learners in the Mainstream Setting
(Primary and Secondary) |
To raise awareness of the specific learning needs of Established bilingual learners in the primary and secondary setting. To provide an insight into second language acquisition and how this impacts on English language acquisition. To look at strategies to help Established bilingual learners access the curriculum | · Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals |
Thurs 9th October 2025
4 – 5.30pm
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Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Liz Scarpa gw09scarpaliz@glowmail.org.uk or Jane Bryant |
| Supporting Bilingual pupils in the Early Years Setting
(Early Years) |
To raise awareness of the specific learning needs of Established bilingual learners in the Early Years setting. To provide an insight into second language acquisition and how this impacts on English language acquisition. To look at strategies to help bilingual learners access the Early Years curriculum | Early Years staff | Tues 28th October 2025
4 – 5.30pm |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Liz Scarpa gw09scarpaliz@glowmail.org.uk or Jane Bryant |
| Supporting New Scots in schools | Themes will include:
To build staff knowledge and understanding of the rights of these learners and consider how to support them to integrate into our schools. This session will address the journeys made by these young people to reach the Scottish Borders, the legal framework under which UASC have arrived in our authority, their experiences including trauma and strategies for how they can best be supported in schools. |
· Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals |
Wed 5th November 2025
4 – 5.30pm |
Booking through Business World
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Liz Scarpa gw09scarpaliz@glowmail.org.uk or Jane Bryant |
| Reframing Pupils Positively | Using a simple person-centred planning tool to reframe pupils positively. This session also explores the impact of shame on self-esteem. | · Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals |
On Request or self delivery
1.5 hour session |
For more info or for bespoke bookings: Email Emma Auty |
| Nurture Principle 2 Principles into practice: Developing and understanding ‘The Environment as a safe base’ | To develop a deeper understanding of the Nurture Principle ‘The environment offers a safe base’.
To understand how the physical environment, social environment and structures and routines support an environment being a safe base.
Explore practical ideas to develop good practice in this Nurture principle. |
· Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals
Attendees should have engaged with the video session prior to this session. Nurture principle 2: The environment offers a safe base |
Tues 10th March 2026
4.00 – 5.30pm |
Email
Caroline Robinson |
| Nurture Principle 5 Principles into practice: Developing and understanding ‘All behaviour is communication’ |
Extend understanding of the Nurture Principle ‘All behaviour is communication’
Learn practical strategies to support this Nurture Principle and understand how and why they work. |
· Available for Whole school / Cluster CAT sessions
· Available on BW for individuals Attendees should have engaged with the video session prior to this session: Nurture Principle 5: All behaviour is communication |
Wed 21st Jan 2026
4.00 – 5.30pm |
Email Doug Crabbe |
| Establishing a ‘Circle time’ approach | Understand the benefits and opportunities offered through a ‘Circle time’ approach
‘Circle time’ promotes: · Emotional Literacy · Sense of Belonging · Stress Reduction · Confidence Building · Communication Skills · Empathy and Understanding · Conflict Resolution · Teamwork and Cooperation · Respect for Diversity |
· This is a modelled offer delivered over three class-based sessions and coaching support to implement this post-delivery.
Find out more about Circle time https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/36940775/58914_227363_1_PB.pdf
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TBA with Caroline | Email
Caroline Robinson |
| ***COMING SOON***
Building Racial Literacy |
TBC | · TBC | TBC | TBC |
| Nurture and Nurturing Approaches – SBC Video links | SBC Launch Pad > Core Business > SBC Includes > IWS > Relational Approaches > Nurturing Approaches > PL > Watch | · Whole school approach
· Catch up for staff induction |
Flexible | Self-delivery
7 x 1.5 hour sessions available |
| Recommended Professional reading list
Inclusion, inclusive practice, nurture and nurturing approaches |
The Trauma and Attachment-Aware Classroom: A Practical Guide to Supporting Children Who Have Encountered Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences by Rebecca Brooks
The School Mental Health Response Handbook: Practical Strategies for Educators and Support Staff by Tina Rae and Ali D’Amario
Implementing Restorative Practice in Schools: A Practical Guide to Transforming School Communities by Margaret Thorsborne and Peta Blood
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IWS contacts
| Name | Cluster/s | |
| Bilingual Support Teachers | ||
| Jane Bryant | Hawick and Peebles | jane.bryant@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Jane Clancey | Galashiels and Selkirk | jane.clancey@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Liz Scarpa | Berwickshire, Earlston, Eyemouth,
Kelso and Jedburgh |
lscarpa@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Outreach Teachers | ||
| Laura Anderson
Kate Riddell |
Galashiels and Selkirk | gw08andersonlaura@glow.sch.uk
kate.riddell@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Nicola Brown | Eyemouth and Berwickshire | Nicola.Brown@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Paddy Burke | Hawick | pburke@scotborders.gov.uk |
| TBC | Peebles | eauty@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Peter Wood | Kelso and Jedburgh | peter.wood@scotborders.gov.uk |
| Sally Veitch | Earlston | sally.veitch@scotborders.gov.uk |
