Children's provision for social and mental health

Social Emotional Mental Health
Quality First Teaching Guided/Group provision Individual Support
Clear and consistent boundaries
Positive re-enforcement and praise
Class dojos
Weekly and termly celebration assemblies
Class recognition boards
Mental Health week
Teaching of strategies to build resilience
Teaching of 5 ways to wellbeing
SCARF and Journey in Love PSHE scheme
Good communication with parents re. any concerns
Calming techniques explicitly taught
Class happiness box
Worry monster
Structured class routines linked to visual timetable
Good teacher/pupil relationships fostered
Friendship bench
Class suggestion boxes for school council
Circle time
Breakfast club available
Weekly singing assemblies
Head teacher Golden book
Nurture provision:
Time to talk
Socially speaking
Talkabout

Bespoke intervention
Early help
PSP
Behaviour support
Ensure there is a calm learning environment when needed.
Access to a low arousal space
peer/adult mentor support
Provide a ‘get out’ option or a way of asking for helping/alerting adults to distress.
Use unconditional positive regard to help boost self-esteem and/or self-belief.
Focus on reducing anxiety and thereby behaviours..
Use meaningful rewards and consequences flexibly and creatively
Consider significance of sensory processing needs on eating, for example: with colour, texture, taste, meal size, the mixing of food.
Be flexible with school/setting’s routines, for example: five-minute pass to avoid crowded area, transitions at the beginning and end of the day.
Emotional Regulation program
Comic strip stories

Group mindfulness sessions
Sensory circuits
Quiet areas provided on playground
After school clubs
Chill and Chat


Group Interventions:
APDRs
Individual positive handling plans
Check ins with key adults
Boxall profile
SDQ
School counsellor
Mindfulness sessions
Learning mentor support
Wigan Family welfare
Steer project
DIAS

1:1 Interventions
Social stories
Emotions board

Referrals to outside agencies: (To be referred via SENDco J O’Boyle)
CAHMs
TESS
Educational Psychologist
School nurse
Social Care
Occupational Therapy service

National services
Childline (0800 1111)
Barnardos(Barnardos.org.uk)
Samaritans (0330 094 5717)