High Five Huddle
High Five Huddle
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A High Five Huddle is a group of supportive key adults around a pupil experiencing SBEW needs. This group are there for the pupil in school, in planned and incidental ways, and are their champions.
"It's a 'community of care' that will enable a child or young person to start to realise their value, and for dignity to be restored"
Louise Bombèr - Know Me to Teach Me
This section of the High Five Resource Hub is packed full of ideas to help you as you set up and implement the High Five Huddle in your school.
In this short video Mollie tells us who is in her High Five Huddle - who would you choose to be in yours?
Staff in St Teresa's Primary School, Loughmacrory, share their experience of using the High Five Huddle to support a pupil in their school
Getting Started, Handbook and Recommended Reading
This short video presentation for professionals gives a step by step guide to starting a High Five Huddle, including reflections from staff in St Joseph's PS Antrim.
This handbook guides you through the process of setting up a specific High Five Huddle for a pupil experiencing SBEW needs in your school
Know Me to Teach Me by Louise Michelle Bombèr is a must read for anyone working in education today. This book covers the theory around the neurosequential model with clear practical applications to the classroom setting.
The book outlines the strength of the "team child" model and includes a sample whole school Relationship Policy.
For more information visit Publications - Touchbase
Beacon House has a bank of free and regularly updated resources to help practitioners and parents/carers understand developmental trauma and how to heal it.
High Five Huddle members should browse through these and in particular view At School: Moving From Behavioural to Relational Responses.
To access these visit Resources (beaconhouse.org.uk)
The first principle of nurture is to accept children at their emotional/developmental level - not expected academic level.
This booklet shows staff how to use PLACE as a helpful structure and prompt to build supportive relationships around their pupils. This approach is based on the PACE model by Dan Hughes. Click on the image to access the booklet.
Helpful Resources
This resource contains a template for the High Five Huddle
This activity can be completed with your whole class and can take in people who support us including in school and beyond - we all have a High Five Huddle- who is in yours?
This High Five Journal resource pack is full of useful activities to promote belonging within the whole class setting
A lovely follow up to the High Five Huddle activity- your whole class considers how they can support others
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