Trauma informed schooling

Trauma informed Schooling aims to achieve a safe environment for all. It provides academic, social-emotional and behavioural supports to trauma affected students and promotes their engagement and success in learning.

At Elizabeth Vale School we have a focus on being ‘Ready to Learn.’ Being Ready to Learn requires an individual to:

• feel safe (safe to make mistakes, physically safe, emotionally safe and in a predictable environment),
• have clear boundaries (articulated expectations, high accountability, consistency),
• have a plan to practise and support regulation for when things go wrong.

To support individuals to be ‘Ready to Learn’ we aspire to:

• create an environment that is intentionally built to support the development of student mindsets, academics and social/emotional wellbeing.
• teach the necessary skills and knowledge to support individuals to regulate and respond in a variety of simple and complex situations.
• build and maintain a staff knowledge, practice and culture that is modelled by our behaviours and decisions as a school.

Together we want to model, teach and prepare individuals to be able to navigate the world around them with the tools, knowledge and confidence to flourish and support others to do the same.