Positive Ed

The two day training workshop, presented by Gilda Scarfe, accelerated our school’s Positive Education
journey by at least three years. It was a truly transformative
experience, which our staff have deemed as the most
inspiring and valuable professional development in our
school history.

“Gilda’s work has had a huge impact on students in both of our schools. She has an impressive understanding of the psychology of adolescence and the teaching and learning programmes she has devised, together with the support she provides to teachers, have ensured that students have benefited positively from the Positive Ed programme. Her one-to-one dealings with students, parents, teachers and school leaders are highly effective and reveal a commitment to a vision of education which aims to develop emotional resilience, mental toughness and intellectual courage in students. Importantly, she has convinced us of the need to integrate the Positive Ed philosophy into the whole curriculum and to ensure that supporting students to understand of their own psychology and to build their self-awareness, self-regulation and self-efficacy are central and guiding principles of the school’s culture. We are about to begin the third year of the programme and already we have fewer students reporting difficulties with anxiety, self-assessments indicate students are more optimistic and ambitious about their future (whilst remaining personally realistic) and academic assessments suggest a rising trend in standards.