Early Help for Children

At Dallam Community Primary School we understand the importance of looking after and nurturing the whole child, not just their academic abilities. There will be times when children have experiences that they may need extra support to process. We are here to help them with that.

If we feel that a child’s needs are greater than we can support with in school we may refer them, with your consent, to our mental health support worker or the child development centre. Please see our Mental Health and Wellbeing page and SEND policies or more information.

Resources and Interventions

Do You Feel What I Feel?

An intervention for children in the Early Years who have experienced difficult times at home, for example, domestic abuse and violence.

Time to Talk

1:1 sessions with Mrs Wilson, who has a certificate in school counselling, where children can talk about anything that is on their mind such as friendship difficulties or problems at home.

Healing Together

An accredited intervention for children aged 6 to 16 who have experienced difficult times at home, for example, domestic abuse and violence.

National Online Safety

A range of resources, training and courses for children, families and staff to support understanding of how to stay safe online.

Worry Monsters

Children of all ages like to use worry monsters to open up conversations about what is worrying them and then giving them a way to get rid of the worry as the monster eats it up and we come up with strategies to support them moving forwards.

DESTY Island

An online intervention for children to develop their self-confidence, social skills and emotional resilience

EBSA

Sometimes children have anxiety about coming into school and the EBSA programme helps them to overcome any worries and be able to access their full entitlement to the curriculum.

ELSA

Mrs Wood has recently trained as an Emotional Literact Support Assistant to work 1:1 with children who need support with their emotional needs and wellbeing.

Next Steps

Mrs Ritchie and Miss Moran are now both trained to use the NHS Next Steps with children to explore their lived experiences, wishes and feelings.

Bereavement

At Dallam Community Primary School we know that when a child experiences bereavement it is immense and means life will never be the same again. Grief impacts concentration, learning and achievement. Every pupil is an individual and their response to a bereavement will depend on a number of factors including their age and understanding. Children and young people show their grief in different ways, children learn about grief from the adults around them and they look to adults for support in their grief.

We can signpost you and your child to appropriate support and further information can be found on the following websites:

Early Help for Children