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A framework for emotional and social development

Noun: Latin Fāgus (“beech”) – The Tree of Learning

Fagus is a unique, educational resource which provides a system for schools to identify, monitor and support children’s emotional and social development.

The Fagus Framework is underpinned by a theoretical base in child developmental theory and was principally developed for pupils at Beech Lodge School, many of the children there have attachment and developmental trauma-related difficulties and have been adopted from care, but Fagus has a wider application and can be used with many school-aged children.

The Framework enables an educational setting to reflect on children's behaviour and indicates underlying unmet needs, put a robust assessment, planning and tracking process in place for pupils that may be struggling with a range of social, emotional and behavioural issues as well as understand their social and emotional current level of development across many domains and provide a structure to create SMART social & emotional goals and interventions. More information ....

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There are 3 central components to Fagus:

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Developmental Guides

Give an in-depth understanding of a child’s social and emotional development, focus interventions, set goals and track progress.

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Online Checklists

Are a summarised version of the Guides and completed to create a Developmental Profile.

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Online Profiles

Approximates a child’s development across each social and emotional domain, identifies their strengths and areas requiring intervention and tracks progress over time.

Here are some examples of how the Fagus toolkit can be used in schools:

Developing provision

Develop a more child-centred approach
Develop your school’s behavioural policy
Identify gaps in practice
Record quantifiable progress data
Enhance pastoral/SEND support
Measure success of interventions

Training

Understand children’s emotional and social development
Help parents understand their child’s functioning
Understand why some children behave in certain ways
Look at behaviours through a developmental lens

Supporting individuals

Identify developmental barriers to progress
Identify and focus on key social and emotional areas
Set goals to promote social and emotional development
Tailor interventions
Record progress over time

Some examples of how Fagus relates social and emotional functioning to behavioural concerns at school, which may impact learning.

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“Fagus has focused our mind on how we assist certain children and alter their behaviours positively.”

Pupil & Family Liaison Officer

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Sherwood Junior School, Nottingham

Sherwood Junior School, Nottingham

“With Fagus we can focus specific interventions to encourage social and emotional progress and measure their success.”

Inclusion Lead

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Hope School, Liverpool

Hope School, Liverpool

“For the very first time using Fagus, we are able to put specific targets into a pupil’s plan tailored to their individual need.”

Deputy Head and SENCo

St Edwards Catholic First School, Windsor

St Edwards Catholic First School, Windsor

"Fagus has given us a solution-orientated approach to individualise our pupils’ social and emotional targets, monitor progress, present clear information and adapt our therapeutic interventions."

Headteacher

Priority Childcare Education, Neath, Wales

Priority Childcare Education, Neath, Wales

"“We are embedding Fagus into our setting and starting to use it as a social and emotional developmental goal setting tool. We have found the checklists very enlightening and are now at the phase where we want to use that information to inform our targets, planning and daily practice.”

Deputy Head of Service

Testimonial: Primary Behaviour Support Service, Enfield Council

Primary Behaviour Support Service, Enfield Council

“Fagus has created a shared language for our children’s social and emotional difficulties and helped us reflect on the underlying reason for some behaviours. We look at social and emotional development in a more nuanced way and can now
firmly pinpoint our pupils’ social and emotional shortfalls, underpinned by science. From this starting point
we set personal developmentally appropriate goals, craft the right inventions and measure progress systematically.

SENCo and Key Stage 1 Teacher

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Testimonial: Fordway Centre, Ashford, Surrey

Fordway Centre, Ashford, Surrey

“Setting up a new provision with an injection of money, Fagus gave us an evidence-based approach to objectively measure the programme’s success and have some benchmark for assessing value for money rather than relying on subjective and anecdotal
observations.

The Fagus framework lets us look at a broader set of social and emotional parameters than any other tool we had previously used and set more focused targets with some sort of analytical component built-in. It enables us to evaluate and review these goals and track their progress over time.

The Fagus output informs practice, helps evidence the impact and
success of chosen interventions and demonstrates that our resources and funding are being put to good use.

These findings can be shared across all the teaching staff as well as parents and our external partners such as governors and trustees.”

Deputy Head

Testimonial: Brooke School, Rugby, Warwickshire

Brooke School, Rugby, Warwickshire

“We are in the very early stages of implementing Fagus in our Early Years’ Setting, but the initial assessments/profiles of the children have been very thought provoking – some of the age ranges for our children’s actual developmental stages have been quite startling. With the findings we have been able to take a closer look at our children’s very early childhood experiences and how these may have affected their personal, social and emotional development – it’s a real eye opener. One key social and emotional area that Fagus has highlighted with some of our children is to develop their ability to regulate their emotions.”

Nursery School Teacher

Testimonial: Nursery, Fielding School, Ealing

Nursery, Fielding Primary School, Ealing

“What we particularly like about the Fagus resource is that it gives us a strikingly simple portrayal of what the real expectations of our children’s social and emotional capabilities are from the outset. From information gleaned in the child’s Developmental Profile we can provide the right supportive education environment and accurately scaffold their learning experiences so they are more easily able to access the curriculum.”

Proprietor

Nurture Learning, Hartlebury, Worcestershire

"The Developmental Profile is very helpful; we can use its findings to guide interventions and demonstrate the impact of our strategies for our Looked After Children on PEPs. In fact we are in the process of carrying out profiles for all our cohort of Looked After and Previously Looked After children."

Testimonial: Meadow Primary School, Cheshire

Meadow Primary School, Cheshire

"We began using Fagus last year to better understand the social and emotional needs of our children.

When completed, the online checklists show the children’s specific area/s of need and corresponding developmental age. These checklists have been helpful in setting small achievable targets because clear areas are identified. We review these regularly over a half term. For example, one child had several social communication targets, which before we might have targeted as a block.

Using Fagus, we started with a small target around empathy. The staff team focused on this area in their interactions with the child and an intervention was planned. When this target was met, we moved onto another related one (whilst keeping empathy in mind). This ‘bite sized’ approach has proved more effective in supporting children.

Our school has just gained the ATSSA (Attachment and Trauma Sensitive School) Bronze Award and Fagus has been an important part of this process."

Lead Pastoral Teacher/Play Therapist

Testimonial: St Peter’s London Docks Primary School, Wapping, London

St Peter's London Docks Primary School, Wapping, London

“Fagus has been very useful for our setting to identify gaps in children’s emotional development and highlight areas for us to focus on next.”

Learning Support Manager

Testimonial: Mayfield Primary School, Cambridge

Mayfield Primary School, Cambridge

Fagus is an ideal use of Pupil Premium Plus Funding

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