Too much time spent firefighting behaviour issues and managing staff overwhelm?
Take control with a whole-school training package that actually works, without adding to your team's stress.
Help your teachers feel confident again
and support your students who need it most.
Hannah Lethbridge
"I just wanted to let you know that your fabulous book 'Take Control of the Noisy Class: Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds' has ranked in RocketEd's 10 Best Books on Inclusion for School Leaders. It was chosen as one of the most useful resources we have encountered to advise schools on ways to improve behaviour management and inclusion."
Melanie Watson
"Rob, Thank you for offering this webinar. I have been a school psychologist for 21 years. Your talent for distilling evidenced-based strategies and life experience into a simple approach is rare and so appreciated."
Welcome to
Needs Focused Teaching
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We started Needs Focused Teaching in 2003 to provide teachers with alternatives to the punitive discipline methods used in many schools.
We realise this approach isn’t for everyone. If you rely on bribes, threats, and other quick fix control methods in an attempt to manage behaviour, you may not agree with our suggestions.
However, if you value positive relationships and believe in understanding children first and foremost, then we’ll be off to a good start. We must remember that the most challenging young people are often products of the most challenging backgrounds.Â
On our TESTIMONIALS page, you can see just a few of the tens of thousands of successes we’ve had helping teachers, lecturers, support staff and other professionals working with challenging young people – and we’d like to help you too!
If at any time you wish to contact us please use the HELP DESKÂ .
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🧨 What Schools in the UK Are Dealing With Now:
✔️ Rising numbers of pupils struggling with anxiety, trauma and dysregulation
✔️ Escalating behaviour incidents across year groups leaving staff overwhelmed and desperate for answers
✔️ SLT time drained by staff needing 1:1 support with high-needs pupils
✔️ A stretched SEN team, overwhelmed pastoral leads, and no time for strategy
✔️ Low staff morale, increasing burnout, absences, and recruitment worries
✔️ Governors and Ofsted expecting “inclusion done well” — while the reality is often reactive and inconsistent.
❌ What’s Not Working?
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Sending one teacher on a one-off course and hoping it trickles down
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Googling new interventions and trying to piece them together.
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Behaviour policies that rely on sanctions, not nervous system insight.
- Outdated classroom management strategies that rely on external motivation and coercion.
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Trying to ride it out until things 'magically' get better.Â
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âś… What Does Work?
A whole-school framework that gives staff:
✔️ A deeper understanding of behaviour from a nervous system perspective
✔️ Practical, repeatable tools for regulation — for pupils and staff
✔️ Language that de-escalates and reconnects, even in high-stress moments
✔️ A consistent, shared approach across classrooms, corridors, and teams
✔️ Flexible access — so no one misses out due to timetables or term-time chaos.
