St Peter's Catholic Primary School Romford Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health

Recently we gave a presentation at a Diocesan conference for Emotional Wellbeing.  In this we shared how support for Emotional Wellbeing is woven throughout the entire culture and daily practice of our school.  Please do look at the presentation which is given below to see what we do.

The Department for Education (DfE) have funded training for the role of Senior Mental Health Lead to develop and implement a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing. Our Senior Mental Health Lead is Miss Mansell.

Our ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) is Mrs Wilson.  Mrs Wilson is a very experienced Teaching Assistant who has been specially trained to take on the role of an ELSA.  The ELSA project is overseen by Educational Psychologists in order to ensure reflective practice and develop the effectiveness of the programme; for this reason parental permission will be sought before undertaking the intervention with each child.  In the ELSA programme children, for whom the school feels it would be of benefit, are sent an invitation to participate.  Initially there is a ‘getting to know you’ phase before the intervention itself is begun.  Each session is carefully planned and individually tailored to meet the child’s needs and develop their emotional literacy.  Children enjoy participating and research has shown this to be a highly effective resource.