Mental Health & Wellbeing
At Jackfield Infant School, the children’s mental health and wellbeing is a high priority.
We use mindfulness colouring, yoga, gardening and many other activities to support the children’s mental health within school.
Senior Mental Health Lead:
Mrs Davies
Family Support Lead
Mrs Bromage
Advice to Children
Advice for Adults
Our children can be supported by our Emotional Literacy Support Assistant
ELSA
Mrs. C. Stubbs is a registered Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) who supports the wellbeing, social and emotional needs of our children.
What is an ELSA?
- ELSAs help children recognise understand and manage emotions.
- Plan and deliver individual and sometimes small group support programmes.
- Receive training and supervision from educational psychologists.
Essential qualities for ELSAs are:
- Empathic.
- To have a good rapport with challenging and emotionally vulnerable youngsters.
- Have the ability to work independently and creatively.
- Be able to plan and evaluate bespoke sessions.
ELSAs are trained to support the children with:
- Recognising and manging feelings
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Supporting children through Loss and bereavement
- Friendship skills
- Social skills
- Attachment
Mrs Stubbs is allocated a full day once a week to work with children in a lovely designated ELSA room. Each session is bespoke to each child, with clear session and programme outcomes.
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