The Outreach team consists of :
Gordon Smith, Head of NRC Outreach
Ceryl Wallace, NRC Outreach Advisory Teacher
Hannah Wright, NRC Outreach Advisory Teacher
James Burton, Lead NRC Mentor
Chelsie Ricketts, NRC Mentor
Fatima Mohamed, NRC Mentor
Keishyan Cato, NRC Mentor
Kwaku Osei-Yeboah, NRC Mentor
Naiyma Martin, NRC Mentor
The NRC Outreach team provides services to specialist/mainstream primary and secondary schools in Islington to schools to improve pupil/student behaviour and reduce exclusions.
It aims to build capacity in schools so they can better support pupils/students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Our Outreach team provides the following services:
- Staff training – a core offer of bespoke training for school staff and parents/carers – around behaviour management strategies and understanding pupil behaviour and mental health.
- Support for whole school policy development including whole school behaviour audits.
- Attendance at pastoral care/inclusion meetings as part of the Team Around the School. You will have a designated NRC Outreach professional for your school who you can liaise with and who will attend these meetings
- Support for school staff to set up systems (such as peer support systems, playground activities, classroom systems) to better manage or prevent student behaviour difficulties.
- Modelling and coaching staff around teaching and group work with students (covering areas such as emotion management, social skills and self-esteem groups, nurture-type groups). We will also provide resources to support the planning of such groups.
- Assessment of individual children with behavioural and/or emotional needs.
- Outreach work with individual or groups of children where interventions and/or strategies are modelled to key school staff (for example, Year 6 to 7 transition groups, nurture groups, reintegration following a short-term place at The Harbour or from a long-term NRC PRU placement).
- Transition support for students within stages, schools and placements.
How we work
- A designated NRC Outreach professional will be linked to your school and will attend Team Around the School meetings and be able to give advice and support.
- Schools should complete and return the NRC Outreach referral when requesting support for an individual, group, teacher or for whole school training/support.
- Within a week of receiving the request for support, your designated NRC Outreach professional will contact you to arrange a meeting and/or begin an assessment of a pupil/student/class (the assessment will involve meetings with key people, observations and frequently, completion of the Boxall Profile).
For further information and referrals relating to the NRC Outreach Service, please click on the links below or contact me directly.
The team and I look forward to working with you this academic year.
Gordon Smith
Head of Outreach / gordon.smith@nrc.islington.sch.uk
If you are a parent/carer or external agency you are unable to refer directly to NRC Outreach, but you can ask your child’s school to refer. If you would like to raise a query please use the link below
NRC Outreach Initial query link
Website Links
Outreach Toolkit | Perryfields Primary PRU
www.semh.co.uk/
Unlocking Children - Supporting the world to better understand children
Emotionally Based School Avoidance (Resource Pack)
Self-Regulation Curriculum | The Zones of Regulation
Celebrating What Works in Education
Resources to download
NRC Outreach overview and summary 24-25
NRC Outreach training offer 25-26
Individual and Pastoral Support Plan Guidance and templates
NRC Outreach Referrals and Requests
NRC Outreach Training request link
NRC Outreach Individual referral link
NRC Outreach Whole Class / Teacher referral (Primary) link
