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Trauma Informed Schools

Mawnan School is proud to be a part of the Trauma Informed Schools.
 

What is a Trauma Informed School?

A Trauma Informed School is one that is able to support children who suffer with trauma or mental health problems and whose troubled behaviour acts as a barrier to learning. Studies that have shown that when children who have suffered several painful life experiences, are un helped, there is a very high chance of them going on to suffer severe mental and physical ill-health.Key conversational skills in addressing and making sense of what has happened are central to the work as is major shift in whole school culture.

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There is a growing body of research on the impact childhood adversity has on long-term mental and physical health. To ensure every child develops positive mental health and resilience, our aim is to:

  • Support children to make sense of their experience(s)
  • Find ways to manage their emotions and feelings
  • Create an environment of safety, connection and compassion at all times
  • Ensure children maintain the capacity to learn, despite difficult events that may occur
 
 

What is trauma? 

The school has embraced a wider definition of trauma to encompass any event that is experienced as frightening, painful or out of control, characterised by there being no one available to support or mitigate the impact of traumatic toxic stress. Day-to-day exposure to events such as divorce, loss of a loved one, illness within the family, preparing for an exam or moving to a new house can be experienced as traumatic.
 
Children do not always present through their outward behaviour when life is becoming difficult for them.

Further Information

Trauma Informed Schools is an organisation committed to improving the health and wellbeing and ability to learn of the most vulnerable schoolchildren in the UK, namely those who have suffered trauma, abuse, neglect and/or have mental health problems or attachment issues.  It aims to provide appropriate training for schools, communities and organisations so that they become trauma informed and mentally healthy places for all.

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