11 Date updated: 25.08.2023 next review: 24.09.2024 In relation to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, emotional wellbeing is considered a vital foundation required to ensure learning processes can take place. As well as offering or adapting an environment that helps to reduce anxiety yet inspire interest, staff carefully build trusting partnerships of care, respectfully accepting each young person as a unique individual. Staff recognise different levels of need and sensitively embrace appropriate challenges and opportunities to ensure life outcomes can be met. Planning considers pupil’s changing needs during different levels of anxiety, linking behaviour with communication, reducing the risk of conflict and embracing positive experiences to enhance emotional and mental wellbeing. Without engagement and growing curiosity, we feel it would be difficult to recognise how deeper levels of learning could take place. With engagement at the start of the learning journey, teaching staff adapt curriculum implementation around the individual child, so a love for learning can become an ultimate outcome. Engagement opens pathways to achievement, attainment and progress for our complex learners; coupled with curiosity, tools of personalisation, innovating a responsive pedagogy and creating a thirst to learn, it increases post-school life chances (Hargreaves 2006). Engagement and Curiosity Problem Solving
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