[senco-forum] how to keep a pupil calm

Anyone got top tips for calming a pupil down who has really lost it

Tomorrow I start teaching (for reintegration service) a girl on a  
fixed-term exclusion from her special (Social Emotional Behavoural  
Difficulties) school - (state boarding).   The list of her offences  
includes the strategies that were used to calm her.  THey were not  
all used at once! THey are,  in no particular order:
Banned from going off-site;
Being given a clear set of choices, together with consequences;  
having reward points removed; being spoken to in a calm manner; early  
bedtime; having another member of staff brought in to defuse  
situation; having actions reported directly to SMT;  having a  
distraction technique used; having the situation calmed by the use of  
appropriate humour; being reassured; use of studio 3 (Computer audio  
package - try Google); being reported to police.
Obviously they are not infallible,  otherwise I wouldn't be seeing  
her - but I was glad to have a list of possible strategies to think  
about and grateful to the school for including them. Hope this  
helps!  Jill

On 2 Nov 2006, at 15:03, WrayJanice Wray wrote:

> Anyone got top tips for calming a pupil down who has really lost it  
> in a class and someone (me) has been sent to collect her ?Janice  
> WraySecondary SENCO, Herts
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