The refusal. The shutdown. The outburst. The child who seems fine until suddenly they are not. Staff respond, things settle — and then the same pattern comes back.
Beyond Behaviour helps staff understand what may be sitting underneath the behaviour, so the response changes rather than simply repeating.
The same behaviour keeps happening, despite consequences, support plans or repeated conversations.
A child appears to cope in school, while home is describing a very different picture afterwards.
Staff know a child is adopted or care-experienced, but are less clear what that should change on Monday morning.
Different adults interpret the same behaviour differently, so the child gets a different response depending on who is there.
A practical whole-team session for primary schools supporting children whose behaviour may be communicating stress, uncertainty, unmet need or the impact of early experience.
Explore what behaviour may be communicating, including attachment, early experience, felt safety and regulation.
Use real school scenarios to examine what adults notice, assume and do — including PACE-informed ways of responding.
Leave with practical shifts staff can use in classrooms, corridors, transitions and difficult moments.
The aim isn't to excuse behaviour. It's to understand enough of it to respond more effectively. That means greater staff confidence, more consistent responses and a better chance of changing the pattern rather than managing the next incident.
The Practice Reset is for a recurring issue where leaders need to look more closely at what is happening, build shared judgement and turn the learning into a more consistent approach.
For clusters, federations and MATs, Braythorpe can build a shared approach to behaviour, regulation, adoption and care experience while keeping the work practical enough for individual schools.
Start with a common problem, build the shared understanding, then make it usable in the different settings across your group.
From £995.
Scoped around the schools and practice you want to change.
Dave is a former Deputy Headteacher and senior school leader with more than 13 years in education, NPQH, teaching and learning leadership, school review and cross-school improvement experience. He is also an adoptive parent.
The work has to survive contact with a busy primary school.
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