Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care
The social and emotional wellbeing and mental health of the children at Homer First School & Nursery is at the heart of our school. We pride ourselves on the support we provide in ensuring that all children at Homer build positive relationships by providing them with opportunities to develop their social and emotional skills. We recognise the importance of emotional wellbeing in achieving in all areas of school life and the importance this has on developing confident and resilient learners.
For children requiring additional support with their emotional wellbeing we offer the following:
Emotional Learning Support Assistants (ELSA)
ELSAs are a warm and caring person who will support your child’s emotional wellbeing, so they can reach their full potential. Our ELSAs are specially trained and regularly supervised by RBWM’s Educational Psychology Service.
Our ELSA trained members of staff are Mrs Allaway and Mrs Salmon.
Nurture Group
Our nurture group runs twice a week on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. We currently have KS1 and KS2 Nurture groups running and each group can take between 6-8 children. Nurture groups assess learning and social and emotional needs. This information is then used to plan activities in a fun way which will help to remove possible barriers to learning.
Our Nurture trained members of staff are Mrs McBride and Mrs O'Hara.
Young Carers
We work closely with Family Action to provide support for young carers within our setting. This support is tailored to the individual family.
Our Young Carers lead is Miss Noon.
Our Young Carers Champion is Mrs McBride.
Please find below our Young Carers Policy
Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends is an approach that supports to develop social and behavioural skills. This is delivered by our ELSAs.
Drawing & Talking Therapy
This uses drawing and talking as a method of working with children who need support to develop their emotional and learning needs.
Our Drawing and Talking therapist is Mrs Buckley.
Blueeys
This is for children that have parents in the British Forces and allows children to communicate with their loved ones who are currently deployed. Children will get the opportunity to write letters and draw pictures which they then send to their loved ones.
As parents and carers, you are fully involved at every stage of meeting your child's needs, should you wish to discuss your child’s needs please contact the school’s SENCOs Mrs Young and Miss Noon via the school office.