Upcoming Events

2020/21 Primary Art Subject Development Network

For Art Subject Leads, Non Specialists, Curriculum Leads and Senior Leaders.

• Culture and Community | Wed 20th October 2021
  20th October 2021
  13:30 - 16:00
• Photography, Graphic Design and Digital Media | Wed 2nd February 2022
  2nd February 2022
  13:30 - 16:00
• All three sessions + free twilight session
  21st April 2021 - 2nd February 2022
  13:30 - 16:00

Headroom SLT Group

There is currently very little emotional or supervisory support available to explore the emotional impact that goes with leading a school system. We are running a closed group for Heads of school/Senior Leaders led by Psychotherapist and Supervisor Anna Robinson and experienced Senior Leader Faye Whittle.  Headroom will help you understand more about the impact and help you to embrace more about people and relationships. 

• 22nd September 2021
  13:00 - 16:00

Mental Health Short: Managing Anxiety

Part of BEP’s successful mental health shorts series, this session is relevant for both Primary and Secondary. Led by psychotherapist Anna Robinson and experienced education leaders Mandy McCrohan and Anna Bateman from BEP’s NewStart team. 

• Mental Health Short: Managing Anxiety (AM) | Birmingham Schools Only
  8th October 2021
  09:00 - 11:30
• Mental Health Short: Managing Anxiety (PM)
  8th October 2021
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Understanding Self-Harm

Relevant for both primary and secondary school staff, this workshop will build your confidence in understanding self harm and also help you learn how schools can support pupils. Led by Psychotherapist Anna Robinson and experienced education leaders Mandy McCrohon and Anna Bateman from BEP’s NewStart Team.

• Mental Health Short: Understanding Self-Harm (AM) | Bham schools only
  18th November 2021
  09:00 - 11:30
• Mental Health Short: Understanding Self-Harm (PM) | All Schools
  18th November 2021
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Exam Stress

Tools and techniques to support your pupils around stress.

• Exam Stress (AM) Birmingham Schools Only
  2nd December 2021
  09:00 - 11:30
• Exam Stress (PM) All Schools
  2nd December 2021
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Gender Identity

Part of BEP’s successful mental health shorts series, this session is relevant for both Primary and Secondary. Led by psychotherapist Anna Robinson and experienced education leaders Mandy McCrohan and Anna Bateman from BEP’s NewStart team. 

• Gender Identity - BIRMINGHAM & SOLIHULL SCHOOLS
  21st January 2022
  09:00 - 11:30
• Gender Identity - NON BIRMINGHAM/SOLIHULL SCHOOLS
  21st January 2022
  09:00 - 11:30

Mental Health Short: Parents who challenge us

Another of BEP’s successful mental health shorts – this sessions is relevant for both Primary and Secondary. Led by psychotherapist Anna Robinson and experienced education leaders Mandy McCrohan and Anna Bateman from BEP’s NewStart team. 

• Mental Health Short: Parents who challenge us
  21st January 2022
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Staff Well-being

Relevant for both Primary and Secondary school staff, this workshop will provide insights that will help you support your own well-being as you avidly work to support the well-being of others.

• Mental Health Short: Staff Well-being (AM) Birmingham Schools Only
  1st February 2022
  09:00 - 11:30
• Mental Health Short: Staff Well-being (PM) All Schools
  1st February 2022
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Increasing reflective practice in school

Reflective practice tools can be helpful if you are seeking to embed a wider culture of supervision in your school and where you are on a journey to being a trauma informed setting. This session will provide you with tools and techniques for when you and your teams become more reflective practitioners.
Led by Specialist Senior EP Kay Jackson and Psychotherapist and Supervisor Anna Robinson we will introduce you to a range of approaches for reflective practice. We will also consider the role of debriefs in school for incidents which may not be classed as ‘critical’ but are impactful nonetheless.

• Increasing Effective Practice in Schools (AM)
  20th April 2022
  09:30 - 11:30
• Increasing Effective Practice in Schools (PM)
  20th April 2022
  13:00 - 15:00

Mental Health Short: Bereavement and Loss Training Session

This training has been built on and developed with Pastoral and Safeguarding colleagues and Beyond the Horizon Charity. 

It will focus on understanding bereavement and loss in the widest sense, what you as a school can do to support those who have experienced loss and how you can ensure your school can respond appropriately to bereavements that impact the whole school. The session content is even more pertinent to schools in the current climate. 

• Bereavement and Loss (AM) Bham Schools Only
  28th April 2022
  09:00 - 11:30
• Bereavement and Loss (PM) All Schools
  28th April 2022
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Supporting pupils with disordered eating

This workshop will look not only at eating disorders and how schools can directly help but also help staff to understand the many ways in which dis-ordered eating can manifest itself and be helped.

• A relational approach to eating (AM) BHAM SCHOOLS ONLY
  9th June 2022
  09:00 - 11:30
• A relational approach to eating (PM) ALL SCHOOLS
  9th June 2022
  13:00 - 15:30

Mental Health Short: Emojis and Empathy

Evidence why empathy is so fundamental for children’s development and important as part of your school’s whole culture and curriculum and is crucial for PHSE delivery. 

• Emojis and Empathy (am) BHAM SCHOOLS ONLY
  30th June 2022
  09:00 - 11:30
• Emojis and Empathy (pm) ALL SCHOOLS
  30th June 2022
  13:00 - 15:30