Resources
There are some free resources on this page. Roger will add to these over time.
If you would like to freely offer any of your own resources to share with others on this page, that you feel are relevant to developing and promoting the ‘Emotionally Available School’ message, then please contact Roger via the form at the bottom of this page.
All contributions will be attributed to their sources.
Sharing is Caring.
‘The Barking and Dagenham Inclusion Pledge’
In 2020, Roger Mitchell was asked by his Local Authority, Barking and Dagenham, to reconstitute and to chair the ‘SEMH Workstream’, a group in which he brought together practitioners and commissioners from across education, health, social care and third sector organisations who support children and young people and schools in his borough.
Through this very productive group, in the space of two years, Roger led on the development of and production of the following materials that have now been formally adopted by Barking and Dagenham local authority.
The Inclusion Pledge is a comprehensive set of values, based on nurtureuk’s Six Principles of Nurture but expanded to draw from and reference a number of further sources – namely the London Violence Reduction Unit’s Inclusion Charter, the United Nations Charter for Children’s Rights, the Principles of the Relational Approach, the Equality Act 2010 and the Charter for Social Pedagogy.
Consequently, this is not an isolated local strategy but sits firmly within the context of excellent inclusive practice drawn from highly respected regional, national and international sources.
NB – There is a full pack of resources, to support and expand on the Nine Values contained within the ‘Inclusion Pledge’, that Roger makes available to anyone who attends one of his ‘Inclusion Pledge’ workshops.
‘The Inclusion Pledge:
Child Speak Version’
Roger’s school, Ripple Primary, developed a ‘child speak’ version. Firstly, so the children would understand what we were trying to achieve and, secondly, so they understood it well enough that they are able to call us out on it if they think that we are not living up to it.
‘The SEMH Handbook’
Click on the image to head to the SEMH Handbook.
The SEMH Handbook has been commissioned by Barking and Dagenham Local Authority to support schools in developing their graduated response for students who have identified SEMH needs or are at risk of developing SEMH needs.
It has been produced through the collaborative efforts of colleagues across Education, Health, Social Care and third-sector organisations, led by Roger Mitchell, Head of Ripple Primary School. The SEMH Handbook has been written and curated by Lee Boyce, CEO at BDSIP (Barking and Dagenham School Improvement Partnership).
‘The SEMH Banding Document’
Click on the image to access the SEMH Handbook.
The SEMH Banding Document has been commissioned by Barking and Dagenham Local Authority to support schools in developing their graduated response for students who have identified SEMH needs or are at risk of developing SEMH needs.
It has been produced through the collaborative efforts of colleagues across Education, Health, Social Care and third-sector organisations, led by Roger Mitchell, Head of Ripple Primary School and was written by a working party led by Lee Boyce, CEO at BDSIP (Barking and Dagenham School Improvement Partnership).
‘Unconditional Positive Regard’
This excellent poster on Unconditional Positive Regard was created by Nicola Lace, Headteacher at Learning Partnership West CIC in Bristol.
Thank you, Nicola, for being a part of our free resource sharing community.
‘Inspirational Toilet Thoughts’
“Inspirational Toilet Thoughts, Roger?” I hear you ask…
Yes indeed.
If you want a captive audience to get your message across to, then do what they do in the motorway service stations and put them up on the back of the toilet cubicle doors and above the urinals.
Although my staff thought me a little eccentric when I first did this, I do actually think that they are now looking forward to the next one.
So, for your eyes only, I offer you the ones I will be rolling out over academic year 2025-2026.
There may be more to come from me. Maybe some from others.
The most important thing is for them to change over time so that they don’t become just ‘wallpaper’.