Building relationships - Secure relationships between staff, students and peers provide a sense of trust, belonging and enable students to feel valued and listened to. 

How? In classes, you might start a session with a 'check-in' to build relationships with your peers and get everyone involved. Outside of your course, you might want to join in with some Enrichment activities to meet new people with similar hobbies or interests. 

Supporting inclusion - College is committed to facilitating access to learning for all students, ensuring social inclusion.

How? At college, we have lots of staff that can help you get the best out of your time with us and have equal opportunities. Some examples of the teams that can help are: Welfare, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, SEND, Care Experienced and Safeguarding 

Setting boundaries - Reaching agreements and building a shared understanding of expectations. 

How? We have a college-wide Relationships and Behaviour Policy, which sets out our core boundaries, expectations and the process to support your behaviour. In classes, you might also set a 'Group Agreement' with your teachers, to decide what you need from them, and what they need from you.

Keeping calm and regulating emotions - Using key relational skills to regulate strong emotions, seeking support when feeling triggered. 

How? It is normal to struggle with emotional control sometimes, especially when you face a trigger. It's important to reach out to someone you trust who you can co-regulate (work together to handle emotions) with. You can talk to any trusted person, but this may include a teacher, peer or the college Wellbeing team if you need extra support.

It might be helpful to think about self-care too - these are activities and techniques you do to take care of yourself and help to stay calm. This link provides some ideas if you're struggling to know where to start.

Communicating emotions - see images below.

Resolving conflict and repairing harm - Everyday restorative interactions can resolve minor conflict and disagreements and create a shared understanding. Even when harm has taken place, communication should still be restorative and aim to restore relationships.

How? Using the images below, you can begin to see what 'restorative communication' might look like if you need to have a difficult conversation. This should be done in a way which is kind and involves working together to move forward, rather than focusing on punishment or blame.