ARC Learning Hub
The Attachment Research Community (ARC) is a national charitable organisation set up in 2017 by virtual school heads, school leaders, psychologists, training organisations and academics, with a mission for ‘every school to be attachment and trauma aware’.
Learning Hubs are schools or educational settings that are leading practitioners of Relational Approaches including trauma informed and attachment aware practice. To become a Learning Hub, the school must be able to clearly demonstrate their trauma informed and attachment aware work and normally this will have been recognised through a nomination for an ARC Timpson Attachment Aware Schools Award. Ripley Infant School was a Timpson Award winner in 2019 and as a result has become an Learning Hub. We will be supported by ARC to share our experiences, learning and practice across our local and/or regional Trauma Informed and Attachment Aware Schools (TIAAS) network.
To find out more about The Attachment Research Community (ARC) click here
Attachment And Relationship Aware Schools
Since 2018 we have been working with Derbyshire Virtual School as part of their Attachment Aware Schools programme. This has involved us completing some action research around attachment needs and early trauma and we are now part of a network of schools who support and share our attachment aware practices.
Derbyshire’s ‘Attachment Aware Schools’ are a county wide network of schools and settings, committed to working in an attachment aware and trauma informed way, to ensure the best possible outcomes for vulnerable learners and indeed ALL learners. The award-winning Attachment Aware Schools programme was designed and is delivered by Derbyshire’s Virtual School. All the Attachment Aware Schools in Derbyshire’s network are committed to understanding children’s behaviour as a means of communication of need, and that relationships in education are the most powerful means to motivate, engage and inspire all of our young learners.
Our Headteacher, Mrs Doleman, is the currently leading the Derbyshire ARAS strategy group which is responsible for the further development of work in this area in partnership with Derbyshire Virtual School.
For further information regarding Attachment and Relationship Aware Schools please contact: Mrs Doleman or Mrs Skermer (school ARAS lead Practitioners)
To find out more about the Derbyshire Attachment Aware Schools programme click here
In 2019 we achieved the ARC Alex Timpson Award for our attachment aware work. To find out more click here