Where does Quality Circle Time fit in with work with children with EBD?
Christmas Story Once upon a time there lived a baby Jesus. There was a Daddy and a Mummy and the Mum was looking after the baby Jesus. Daddy comes along and smashed up the place because he didn’t like the mum, and he blowed up the statue of the mum to pieces. Then he smashed the real mum to pieces and the baby. By Michael This is a real story written by a real boy. He is in an ordinary mainstream school with no extra help for his teacher. He is ferociously difficult to teach, he swears, he spits, if he is crossed he tells his teacher he will “punch her bloody face.” He is also only seven. His teacher has naturally asked for help and there is no way she is going to be pleased if all she gets is a bunch of stickers and a star chart. What she needs is a whole school behaviour system which will support her whilst helping Michael to come to a considered understanding of what is and isn’t acceptable behaviour and why. There also needs to be time and space for Michael to be listened to, as we
