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Emotional Regulation

SCERTS® is a comprehensive intervention model for children to help them develop social communication and emotional regulation skills.

SCERTS provides specific guidelines for helping pupils to become competent and confident social communicators and active learners. By following this model, we hope that it enables pupils to the most available they can be for their learning, and to prevent problem behaviours. SCERTS is designed to help families, educators and therapists collaborate in a carefully coordinated manner.

A unique aspect of SCERTS is that the most significant challenges are addressed while identifying and building upon strengths. This is accomplished though family professional partnerships, and by prioritising the abilities and supports that will lead to the most positive long-term outcomes. This ties in well with our Trauma Informed Schools Approach (TIS).

In practice, we look at how different situations and activities require different levels of energy. Children are guided to understand what different energy levels can look like in their own minds, bodies and behaviours. We then work with children to help them ‘power up or power down’ where necessary. A change in energy levels will often require different strategies and that is what we aim to teach our pupils.

Each class has ‘Energy Check’ posters and table aids. Our staff refer to energy levels when speaking with children or working through issues.