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Insecure Attachment Support Plan. ______Date______

Additional Learning Needs I learn best when;  I’m with peers who will talk to me and look and You can help if you… Social, Emotional and Behavioural sound friendly Difficulties (Insecure attachment) due  I get positive attention  Ignore low level attention seeking to severe disruption to early  Adults are consistent and reliable behaviour, or redirect it sensitively schooling.  My day is predictable and safe  Let me, and others know when I get it right.  Making me feel good about myself by What does this mean? praising me a lot. I try to keep myself to myself by  Help my peers see me in a different light. I find it difficult to;  Mix with peers  Winding up other people so they shout at me and  Have confidence in myself give me a reason to sit back Key facts about attachment  Be optimistic about the future  Provoking peers so attention is on their behaviour and people close to me rather than mine Children who are insecurely attached;  Believe that the world is a safe  Tell tales about peers to get them into trouble.  May feel lost or unnoticed and seek to place address this balance with attention  Believe that adults can protect seeking behaviour. me I really do want to join in but don’t want to risk it going  May feel they are worthless and seek to  Feel safe wrong. This might make me; prove this is right each time they meet new adults.  Tap on tables  May provoke hostile reactions in the  Argue with peers. teacher to reinforce their self doubt.  Fiddle with equipment.  Say I don’t want to join in.  Stay near an adult at playtime where it is safe.  Ask for jobs to do.

Karl Harms Behaviour Consultant 0191 277 4543 [email protected] Karl Harms Behaviour Consultant 0191 277 4543 [email protected]