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Heather Lucas SEMH Support

@heatherlucas.bsky.social
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BSc (Hons)Psychology. 19 years experience supporting SEMH. Bitesized psychology and relational support for families and schools. On here looking to learn and engage with those who care, are curious, open minded and kind.

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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hello? Is anyone in my world in here? 😃
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Same! Hardly ever pop in and yours was first message I saw. 😃
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Attune. Attune. Attune. It’s a qualitative relational skill.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Along with nuance 😀
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Attunement. One of my key words.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
That supporting safety, both physically and relationally, is the foundation stone for the growth of individuals and their communities.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I wonder about the benefit of the placebo as a genuinely regulating intervention. The regulation of the nervous system,which can be achieved by the presence of an attuned relationship and the sense of being seen, heard and understood,could in itself be useful enough to open the cortex for learning.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Unless you confuse this pull with mal-adaptive addictive ones.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Just collected this wonderful book. It doesn’t shy from the difficulties of losing a loved one but might really support children in your care if used with additional sensitive support. ❤️‍🩹
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Helen @helenmew.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I happened to bump into someone I know through a choir thing I do this evening - and because we’ve briefly chatted before I also know she’s a #SpecialGuardian. I mentioned the march on Sunday. She had heard nothing about it all.
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Mark Finnis @markfinnis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Belonging matters more than behaviour. Connection matters more than correction. Relationships matter most of all.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My Mum always said tea tasted better from a fine china cup/mug 😍
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Toria Bono @toriabono.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Betsy de Thierry @betsydethierry.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I’ve managed to move across my tweets! Now to find those I followed and followed me! What do I do for that? 🤦‍♀️😨
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I also have a theme in my followers that has nothing to do with my focus on child development and education 🤨 It might not be helped by the fact that my approach is based in ‘relationships’ but not in the way some algorithms use it?!🤪
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Great for his development. Time well spent 😃👌
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Too early I think. My contacts are very fixated on the protectionist narrative and ‘the math’. Less so on the generalised undermining of healthy human relationships.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
State dependant understanding needs to be seen as human wide. Showing up differently in different contexts for sure but affecting everyone. ‘This child [or yp or adult] in this moment’ (Dr Dan Siegel). 😀
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
👍Mona DelaHooke suggests PDA should be Protective Demand Avoidance. It’s just an instinct to protect themselves. Mal-adaptive possibly.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Please do not show this in schools! Unless you have had a genuinely reflective planning meeting about how and why it fits into your already supportive culture and if you don’t really have one of those, then that’s why not to.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.
The image is a screenshot of a social media post by Laurie Hardman (@LaurieLyricalG
), posted 14 hours ago. The post features a photo of a sidewalk with a message written in white chalk: "THIS IS NOT A LEFT OR RIGHT MOMENT, IT IS A RIGHT OR WRONG MOMENT," attributed to "- SEN. CORY BOOKER." The photo is credited to @karinschall
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Culture change is needed. Persistent Disruptive Behaviour is statistically the biggest reason for suspensions etc. It’s persistent for many reasons that punishments can’t change. We need Relational Inclusion to understand & create change over time. Relationships need time and space for flexibility.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Yup to it all. You need to be the guest fir a whole show not just a caller 😀
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It really does. Good to notice 😀🌷🌸
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Spotted these at edge of the school field just now. Still not out full but great colour!
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’ve seen some glorious ones this week.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not practical in the currently over stuffed curriculum but another spark of curiosity about how effective learning g might look different.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Good to know. Might need to be ready with notepad for single use rather than cleaning the kitchen or similar then! 😂
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Can they be watched more than once Lisa?
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Always be ready to stand and shake hands or gesture for them to sit first. Humans respond to being connected to and valued/respected (ding like that word though) As a parent some teachers came off as disinterested and in a ‘next’ mentality which does not set a positive start.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#primaryrocks ? can’t remember any of the others.
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Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When I see an egg box, I see possibility. Sculpture is sculpture, and if you've got imagination then it doesn't matter how humble the materials are. www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #art #sculpture
A simple face made by rearranging parts cut from an egg carton.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Done 3. Last one tomorrow. Wonder if the Education Secretary has seen it? 😱
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I didn’t realise how aligned it would be
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What could the psychologist not say she liked him after all of the rapport building? Anyone?
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Watching it as I type…Episode 3.
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Suzanne Zeedyk @suzannezeedyk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them. If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them. If we do not meet children's biological needs for attuned relationships, we harm them. Repeat
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a woman is laying on a bed holding a baby .
ALT: a woman is laying on a bed holding a baby .
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Surely the meat is affected by the stress too?
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The life of a Sow Mother, restricted she can barely tend to her young who will soon be taken from her and the process will start again, This is NOT humane
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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“I cannot see what else there is going to be in place to help improve behaviour at scale in the system," says @unleashingme.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...
tes.com
Concern as behaviour hubs ‘disband’ with no replacement
Move comes as teachers report growing behaviour challenges, and amid uncertainty over behaviour policy
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Oops might not be just Mark. Sorry everyone else. 😳🙂
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Important to follow up on this. It also why compliance and punitive behaviour models can create dangerously uncritical yp and adults who are then more easily groomed (in more ways than conspiracies). Thank you Mark.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
@drkarentreisman.bsky.social you will recognise The Brain Architecture Game (can’t get replacement plastic straws these days though, collected them back in like gold dust 😂)
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Had the best day facilitating an InSet day on embedding SEMH into whole school culture. Huge thanks to @rachtomlinson.bsky.social for generously sharing her experiences via video link. She’s about 16 years ahead of us today 😃
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Andrew Cowley @andrewcowley23.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Less than three weeks until The School Mental Health Toolkit is published by Bloomsbury Education Thanks to Sarah and Clare for these excellent endorsements. Available to pre-order now, in print and on e-reader.
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Love this 👌
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Heather Lucas SEMH Support @heatherlucas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
OK controversial post coming up: let’s focus less on SEND and wrap around care and more on broadening out what schools can nurture as the norm and creating conditions where parents can afford to work less and children don’t have such long days to endure.
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