Heather Lucas SEMH Support
@heatherlucas.bsky.social
BSc (Hons)Psychology. 19 years experience supporting SEMH.
Bitesized psychology and relational support for families and schools.
On here looking to learn and engage with those who care, are curious, open minded and kind.
Bitesized psychology and relational support for families and schools.
On here looking to learn and engage with those who care, are curious, open minded and kind.
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Moving Away from Rewards and Punishments Part 1 with Heather Lucas - Tiny Voice Talks Education
In this, the first of two episodes on rewards and punishments, Toria talks to Heather Lucas about moving away from the behaviouralist approach that schools have followed for years and more towards an ...
tinyvoicetalks.buzzsprout.com
Want to know a bit more about the things I am passionate about? Here are two podcast episodes with the lovely Toria Bono. tinyvoicetalks.buzzsprout.com/1267127/epis...
Just collected this wonderful book. It doesn’t shy from the difficulties of losing a loved one but might really support children in your care if used with additional sensitive support. ❤️🩹
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Just collected this wonderful book. It doesn’t shy from the difficulties of losing a loved one but might really support children in your care if used with additional sensitive support. ❤️🩹
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I happened to bump into someone I know through a choir thing I do this evening - and because we’ve briefly chatted before I also know she’s a #SpecialGuardian. I mentioned the march on Sunday. She had heard nothing about it all.
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I happened to bump into someone I know through a choir thing I do this evening - and because we’ve briefly chatted before I also know she’s a #SpecialGuardian. I mentioned the march on Sunday. She had heard nothing about it all.
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Belonging matters more than behaviour.
Connection matters more than correction.
Relationships matter most of all.
Connection matters more than correction.
Relationships matter most of all.
April 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Belonging matters more than behaviour.
Connection matters more than correction.
Relationships matter most of all.
Connection matters more than correction.
Relationships matter most of all.
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This week's book recommendation: Toria Bono @Toriaclaire Tiny Voices Talk t.co/MAdqkttLCf
Tiny Voices Talk - School Leader Books
Tiny Voices Talk: Educator Empowerment and Fresh Ideas
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April 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I’ve managed to move across my tweets! Now to find those I followed and followed me! What do I do for that? 🤦♀️😨
April 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’ve managed to move across my tweets! Now to find those I followed and followed me! What do I do for that? 🤦♀️😨
Please do not show this in schools! Unless you have had a genuinely reflective planning meeting about how and why it fits into your already supportive culture and if you don’t really have one of those, then that’s why not to.
Aside from the pointlessness of showing kids a fictional drama rather than actually doing some legislating, I find it fascinating that officials thought that the barrier to showing a 4hr Netflix drama in school was the subscription, and not a spare 4 hours to show it. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/adol...
Netflix's powerful incel drama Adolescence to be shown in schools
Netflix's hit show Adolescence is to be shown in secondary schools, the government has confirmed.
www.lbc.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Please do not show this in schools! Unless you have had a genuinely reflective planning meeting about how and why it fits into your already supportive culture and if you don’t really have one of those, then that’s why not to.
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Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.
April 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.
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We offer a wide range of incredibly affordable downloadable webinars AND live events as we offer them, that you may find very very useful! Eg relational practice, safeguarding, mental health for parents & carers, reflective practice for SW's etc. Take a peak #education #schools #teachers #socialwork
SHOP WEBINARS - Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd
www.ticservicesltd.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We offer a wide range of incredibly affordable downloadable webinars AND live events as we offer them, that you may find very very useful! Eg relational practice, safeguarding, mental health for parents & carers, reflective practice for SW's etc. Take a peak #education #schools #teachers #socialwork
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When I see an egg box, I see possibility. Sculpture is sculpture, and if you've got imagination then it doesn't matter how humble the materials are.
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #art #sculpture
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #art #sculpture
March 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When I see an egg box, I see possibility. Sculpture is sculpture, and if you've got imagination then it doesn't matter how humble the materials are.
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #art #sculpture
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #art #sculpture
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If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
Repeat
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
Repeat
a woman is laying on a bed holding a baby .
ALT: a woman is laying on a bed holding a baby .
media.tenor.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
Repeat
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them.
Repeat
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The life of a Sow Mother, restricted she can barely tend to her young who will soon be taken from her and the process will start again, This is NOT humane
March 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The life of a Sow Mother, restricted she can barely tend to her young who will soon be taken from her and the process will start again, This is NOT humane
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“I cannot see what else there is going to be in place to help improve behaviour at scale in the system," says @unleashingme.bsky.social
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Concern as behaviour hubs ‘disband’ with no replacement
Move comes as teachers report growing behaviour challenges, and amid uncertainty over behaviour policy
www.tes.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“I cannot see what else there is going to be in place to help improve behaviour at scale in the system," says @unleashingme.bsky.social
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Important to follow up on this. It also why compliance and punitive behaviour models can create dangerously uncritical yp and adults who are then more easily groomed (in more ways than conspiracies).
Thank you Mark.
Thank you Mark.
Headline findings of the Commission into Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools counteringconspiracies.publicfirst.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Important to follow up on this. It also why compliance and punitive behaviour models can create dangerously uncritical yp and adults who are then more easily groomed (in more ways than conspiracies).
Thank you Mark.
Thank you Mark.
Had the best day facilitating an InSet day on embedding SEMH into whole school culture.
Huge thanks to @rachtomlinson.bsky.social for generously sharing her experiences via video link. She’s about 16 years ahead of us today 😃
Huge thanks to @rachtomlinson.bsky.social for generously sharing her experiences via video link. She’s about 16 years ahead of us today 😃
February 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Had the best day facilitating an InSet day on embedding SEMH into whole school culture.
Huge thanks to @rachtomlinson.bsky.social for generously sharing her experiences via video link. She’s about 16 years ahead of us today 😃
Huge thanks to @rachtomlinson.bsky.social for generously sharing her experiences via video link. She’s about 16 years ahead of us today 😃
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Less than three weeks until The School Mental Health Toolkit is published by Bloomsbury Education
Thanks to Sarah and Clare for these excellent endorsements.
Available to pre-order now, in print and on e-reader.
Thanks to Sarah and Clare for these excellent endorsements.
Available to pre-order now, in print and on e-reader.
February 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Less than three weeks until The School Mental Health Toolkit is published by Bloomsbury Education
Thanks to Sarah and Clare for these excellent endorsements.
Available to pre-order now, in print and on e-reader.
Thanks to Sarah and Clare for these excellent endorsements.
Available to pre-order now, in print and on e-reader.
OK controversial post coming up: let’s focus less on SEND and wrap around care and more on broadening out what schools can nurture as the norm and creating conditions where parents can afford to work less and children don’t have such long days to endure.
February 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
OK controversial post coming up: let’s focus less on SEND and wrap around care and more on broadening out what schools can nurture as the norm and creating conditions where parents can afford to work less and children don’t have such long days to endure.
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Going beyond the tick box! If you're frustrated at the lack of deep personal inquiry, no real knowledge about recovery and watching the talk without the walk, then this conference has been designed for you.
www.ticservicesltd.com/conference20...
www.ticservicesltd.com/conference20...
Conference 2025 - Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd
www.ticservicesltd.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Going beyond the tick box! If you're frustrated at the lack of deep personal inquiry, no real knowledge about recovery and watching the talk without the walk, then this conference has been designed for you.
www.ticservicesltd.com/conference20...
www.ticservicesltd.com/conference20...
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Why do we need this? This recent article by the TES shows has vastly the number of suspensions in PRIMARY schools has increased because of RACISM.
So check out our resources to help challenge this!
Https://bit.ly/racism2024
By @bameednetwork.bsky.social
So check out our resources to help challenge this!
Https://bit.ly/racism2024
By @bameednetwork.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Why do we need this? This recent article by the TES shows has vastly the number of suspensions in PRIMARY schools has increased because of RACISM.
So check out our resources to help challenge this!
Https://bit.ly/racism2024
By @bameednetwork.bsky.social
So check out our resources to help challenge this!
Https://bit.ly/racism2024
By @bameednetwork.bsky.social
Yes!The demands within the week must introduce space for attunement. And that’s not just for recognised SEND but many others including staff. Authenticity & congruence are replaced with masking & automatic detached compliance when demands don’t attune to natural human variations in need & capacity.
I don't see how the DfE finds a solution to helping schools be more inclusive without creating more flexibility in curriculum and approaches to behaviour, less rigid forms of accountability and sorting out the mess that is Ofsted.
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Yes!The demands within the week must introduce space for attunement. And that’s not just for recognised SEND but many others including staff. Authenticity & congruence are replaced with masking & automatic detached compliance when demands don’t attune to natural human variations in need & capacity.
Fab trip to London today to share a focus on Co-Regulation.
We started with some feel-good Emotional Contagion’ which created lots of smiles, some foot tapping and humming.
Lots of interaction with the room. Thank you Phoenix School.
We started with some feel-good Emotional Contagion’ which created lots of smiles, some foot tapping and humming.
Lots of interaction with the room. Thank you Phoenix School.
January 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Fab trip to London today to share a focus on Co-Regulation.
We started with some feel-good Emotional Contagion’ which created lots of smiles, some foot tapping and humming.
Lots of interaction with the room. Thank you Phoenix School.
We started with some feel-good Emotional Contagion’ which created lots of smiles, some foot tapping and humming.
Lots of interaction with the room. Thank you Phoenix School.
Taking a focus on co-regulation to a group of TAs in London. We will be starting with some positive emotional contagion 👌
January 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Taking a focus on co-regulation to a group of TAs in London. We will be starting with some positive emotional contagion 👌