Working with Parents of Pupils at Risk of Exclusion

The Centre for Therapeutic Storywriting is collaborating with the University of Chichester on the 2 year Story Links Project which is supported by the TDA and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

Story Links extends the work of the Therapeutic Storywriting group model to include parents of pupils at risk of exclusion. For many of these pupils the emotional difficulties that are getting in the way of their learning are related to attachment difficulties. Story Links is a solution-focused systemic programme delivered in weekly sessions in which the parent/carer and the child are facilitated to co-create a story which is then used as the child’s reading text during the week.

The project runs from April 2008 to November 2009 and will include the delivery of five 3-day training courses to educational professionals in the South of England. Details of forthcoming courses will be announced on the home page and also in the monthly Update.

There will be an evaluation of the impact of the intervention on pupils learning. For more details see:-

Project Outline

Training

Booking on the home page