'[This]' is a model which has demonstrated...that by treating children as adults, they have the opportunity to enjoy a better childhood.' Lord Puttnam, CBE.

This is the indispensable guide for teachers wondering how to start in building meaningful emotional connections with their pupils. Revealing the strategies for positive relationships and the steps to create calm and self-disciplined behaviour, bestselling author Jenny Mosley also provides a range of ideas about how to deal with 'children beyond'. Including a range of ready to use active-listening lesson plans, practitioners in early years and primary classrooms can choose from many themes such as 'Getting To Know You', 'Co-operation,' 'Solving Problems' and 'Friendship'.

These activities and practical strategies will help build teachers' confidence and circle time skills, empowering them to sustain this approach through tutorial time, subject teaching, or as part of their work with pupils with special educational needs.