Behaviour and Emotional Support
At Hatton, we understand that emotional well-being and positive behaviour are the foundations of all successful learning. We provide a nuturing, predictable, and safeenvironemnt where every child is understood as an individual. By focusing on emotional regulationand communication, we ensure our pupils feel secure, valued, and empowered to navigate their feelings throughout the school day
Positive Behaviour Support
Our Approach to Positive Handling is all about using safe and calm strategies to help children when their behaviour becomes tricky or challenging. Most of the time, our staff use talking, listening, and problem solving to help everyone feel safe.
Physical Intervention: Only in very serious situations might an adult need to use physical help to stop someone from getting hurt or from damaging things around them. If a child is in danger of hurting themselves or someone else, adults use special safe handling skills to restore calm and move away from danger.
Our Duty of Care: During training, our teachers and staff learn exactly when it is appropriate to step in physically, ensuring we always keep children safe in the best and kindest way possible.
Our Main Goal: We focus heavily on figuring out how to not use physical handling unless it is absolutely necessary. Staff spend a lot of time learning positive way to help children manage big feelings, solve problems, and stay safe without needing physical intervention.
Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation is a friendly way to help children understand their feelings and learn how to manage them. Created by occupational therapist Leah Kuypers, makes self-regulation much easier for student to learn.
Self-regulation means finding the best state of alertness for what you are doing. Through this framework, we help children notice what "zone" they are in and choose strategies to stay there or move to a different zone if needed:
High Energy Environments: When running around on the playground or playing a fast game, your body needs lots of energy.
Calm Environments: When spending time in the library, your body needs a calm, quiet state.
Therapeutic Interventions
Therapeutic interventions are special kinds of help that our staff use to support children when they’re finding things difficult — like big feelings, tricky behaviour, or challenges with learning. These interventions are gentle, caring tools designed to keep children feeling safe, calm, and ready to learn.
Depending on the needs of the child, these tools might include:
Communication & Reflection: Talking strategies to help children share their feelings.
Calming Activities: Structured tasks to help bodies relax and build problem-solving skills during tough moments.
Sensory Support: Using sensory tools like fidget toys or accessing quiet spaces to help children feel more comfortable.
The Ultimate Goal
The focus of our therapeutic interventions is always the same: to help children understand themselves better, feel more in control, learn positive ways to cope with challenges, and ensure every child feels safe, supported, and ready to learn.
