Pastoral Care at
Glenthorne Community Primary School

The Pastoral Care Team and Aims

• Miss Woodall (Inclusion Lead, Mental Health Lead, DSL)

 headteacher@glenthorne.staffs.sch.uk

• Miss Langston (SENCo)

office@glenthorne.staffs.sch.uk

• Mrs Bates (Pastoral Support Worker, DDSL)

parentsupport@glenthorne.staffs.sch.uk

Other Support

• Mrs Lockett (EYFS/KS1 Mental Health)
• Virtual Schools
• Mr Thompson & Miss Simpson (Emotion Coaches)
• Mrs Bold and Mrs Edwards (Sensory Circuits)

Glenthorne Community Primary School understands the importance of enabling the voice of the child to be heard to promote safeguarding and well-being.

Examples of the Pastoral Care Team’s work include:

. Lunchtime self-referral drop-in sessions with the Pastoral Care Team.

· We are a ‘talking school’; we encourage our children to share their concerns at all times.

· Pupil Leadership Team. Their peers elect the pupils for the Team. Children are fully aware of the role of the elected school councillors and are encouraged to regularly bring their views and ideas to their Class Representatives.

· School Prefects. These children are role models to younger children and someone they know who they can go to for support.

· Playground Leaders & Healthy Hearts Team are very visible in the playground at play and lunch breaks.

· Children, who are identified as vulnerable, are given a Key Worker at play and lunch times. This ensures that the social and emotional needs of vulnerable children are being addressed consistently.

Our aims are:

· To provide an environment which will support the emotional health and well-being of all our pupils.

. To support and empower families who are experiencing challenges.

·To meet the differing needs of all our children so that each unique child is equipped with life-long skills.

· To help our children develop empathy for social, spiritual, emotional and physical needs within the school.

·To maintain an atmosphere in which children feel secure, are encouraged in their learning, growth and social development and know that they are valued within a healthy and safe environment.

· To model for parents/carers that their children are being educated in a safe and nurturing environment.

· To motivate pupils to recognise and reflect upon our core values.

· To promote positive relationships with parents/carers through good communication and interaction.

· To enhance parental awareness of how children learn and the importance of education.

· To work with a range of stakeholders, parents, support staff, outreach agencies and other schools to ensure the best outcomes for every pupil.

External Agency Support

School Nursing Service

School Nurses are qualified nurses with specialist training in public health for children, young people and families. We are skilled in identifying health problems or concerns early, to provide early support.

School nurses lead and deliver the healthy child programme and support sessions within school where appropriate.

We also have pupils supported by:

·Women’s Aid

·Virtual School

·Young Carers

·CAHMS

·Early Help

·Autism Outreach

If you would like support with any issue, school or home related, please get in touch today:

· Speak to any member of staff you feel comfortable talking to.



Other organisations that may be helpful:

http://www.youngminds.org.uk/

www.mind.co.uk

www.samaritans.org

https://www.childline.org.uk/

What we offer

For Pupils:

· An active Pastoral Team which children can be referred to or self-refer

· Robust Inclusion Team.

· Open door policies for all pupils with Leadership and PSW.

· Staff training on how to provide a nurturing environment and children are taught to speak to members of Staff about any problems they have

· Staff trained in Attachment and Trauma Awareness.

· Staff trained in Emotion Coaching.

· Rigorous behaviour monitoring and looking for possible causes of the behaviour.

· Displays around the school promoting wellbeing and providing opportunities to talk.

· Students feel safe to report concerns about other students

· Assemblies on Health and Wellbeing-links with Jigsaw PSHE Scheme

· Mental Health Awareness Week

· Hello Yellow Day-focus on well-being and ways to calm

· Circle Times sessions in class-Jigsaw Scheme

· Nurture Groups

· Secondary Transition groups

· Pets as Therapy-we have a school dog who supports children in school and other animals

· Pupil Leadership Team (School Council)

· Pupil voice for Annual Reviews and EHCP conversations

· Bespoke behaviour plans for those who need reasonable adjustments

· Sensory Circuits to start the day in a calm way

· Building a strong partnership with parents

For Staff:

· Safeguarding awareness developed through PSHE

· Training in Safeguarding, Attachment Aware and Trauma Informed

· Training in Emotion Coaching

· Use of My Concern throughout school

· Regular staff meetings/Leadership Meetings to discuss welfare of specific pupils

· School E-Safety Team: National Online Safety Award and the Safer Remote Learning Award

. Positive Handling training

· Termly Reviews

· Access to free support services

All staff have been trained in Restorative Behaviour Approaches

For Parents:

· Full time Pastoral Support Worker, who leads on Early Help that is onsite daily to help with any concerns a parent may have.

· Headteacher has an open door policy for parents

· Parents' Forum-meet the Headteacher

· Senior Leader available on the door every morning

· SENCo who is able to advise on Special Educational Needs

· Secondary transition work-working with Behavioural Services and the LA 

. Access to the SEND Team 

. Bespoke support in School based on need

We offer a range of support within school, which includes:

·Breakfast Club

·Lunchtime clubs

·Playground Pals

·After school clubs (Sports, Well-Being Warriors, Cooking, Crafts)

·Nurture Sessions and the use of 'The Haven'

·My Star

·Forest School

·Forest Fridays-Play and Stay with pre-school

·A range of interventions, including Drawing & Talking, ELSA & Lego Therapy

·Additional external agency support (Women’s Aid, Autism Outreach, School Nurse and Young Carers).

Interventions

Here at Glenthorne, we offer a range of interventions to support children with their learning. The purpose of an early intervention is to ensure children have the maximum opportunity to accelerate their progress. There are many interventions across school but in particular, from a pastoral point of view, we are pleased to offer our children the experience of Forest School, Drawing & Talking and Emotional Literacy Support Assistants to help more with their emotional well being.