News & Views

A big thank you to Dr Dawn Watling (Senior Lecturer and Director of the Social Development Lab) and her team from Royal Holloway, University of London, who have recently conducted some independent teacher interviews to evaluate Fagus’ usefulness.  Here are some of the research results: Fagus’ usefulness: Confirmed previous beliefs about a pupils’ social and…

It really was lights, camera, action, when the BBC popped into Beech Lodge School to bring the plight of adopted children’s experiences at school to the fore. Carrie Grant interviewed some of our wonderful children for the BBC One prime time show – ‘The One Show’. Carrie is best known for her work on the…

After our Fagus product launch just over a year ago, we have had many educational settings thankfully telling us that it has offered them a new and more detailed picture of some of their pupils’ from an emotional and social developmental perspective. Recently we were approached by Teach Secondary/Teach Primary publications to undertake an independent…

Priority Childcare offer a residential environment for young people who have experienced challenging lives and developmental trauma.  The nurturing provision provides an integrated approach to education, training and care and enables its children to come to terms with their social, emotional, psychological and physical needs. Priority Childcare Education is a registered school which provides in-house…

Our very own Daniela Shanly (Fagus MD and Founder of Beech Lodge School) will be speaking at Adoption UK’s Annual Conference 2017, on Saturday 11th November, at Birmingham Conference & Events Centre. Daniela will join other renowned speakers to discuss improving the educational outcomes for adopted children through alternative approaches to traditional learning. The conference…

PAC-UK has produced an amazing resource which the Department of Education is circulating to all schools. Many adopted and permanently placed children and young people have experienced some kind of trauma and/or loss. Sometimes schools do not understand the specific needs of these children, due to a lack of information, training and support. This enlightening…

Fagus is returning to exhibit at this year’s TES Special Educational Needs Show at the Business Design Centre, London. The event will be on over two days – 6/7th October. We’d love to see you and will be on Stand 127. Our stand is bigger and better than last year and we are celebrating our…

  After a wonderful summer break, we are refreshed and ready to go. We also can’t quite believe that we have been around for one whole year (happy first birthday to us!).  Time has flown and we have surpassed all our original sales and marketing expectations. We have had a massive wave of interest in…

Have a look at a wonderful article by our Educational Psychologist Alastair Lidster on teachwire.net.  It looks at the ways we can support children who do not yet have the emotional and social maturity to connect with the curriculum and cope with the routine and structure of mainstream school life. View it here. To read…