Social, Emotional & Mental Health
If your child has difficulties with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties, they may need support with:
- Attendance
- Attention and listening skills
- Low self-esteem
- Managing anger
- Forming and maintaining relationships
- Depression
- Bereavement
- Life outside school
Your child may have a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD, Attachment Disorder or Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) – please see our section for ASD within Communication and Interaction.
All pupils at St Nicholas are entitled to, and receive Inclusive Quality-First Teaching though a broad and balanced academic and social curriculum, which is appropriately differentiated to meet individual learner needs.
This is achieved through:
- Highly skilled teachers and well-trained support staff who are dedicated to your child’s academic, personal and social potential
- Appropriate learning challenges, matched the National Curriculum guidelines
- Differentiated learning challenges through:
- Extending or reducing challenges
- Varying the amount of adult or peer support given to complete the challenge
- The way a learning challenge is delivered, completed and achieved. E.g. visually (looking), practically (doing), orally (speaking), aurally (listening).
- Different resources to complete learning challenges
- Different outcome of the challenge
- Multi-sensory approach to learning challenges
- Visual aids to support attention and listening skills, classroom organisation and language and concept development
- Reward systems
- Modelled language through repetition, emphasis and expansion
- More thinking time
- Writing slope boards, pencil grips and coloured overlays for reading
- Appropriate seating plan
- Talking partners & Peer support
- Jigsaw programme delivered through our PSHE curriculum
- Early identification of needs through a graduated approach to teaching and learning
- Effective Accessibility, Anti-bullying, Behaviour Policy, Equalities, SEND & Inclusion and Teaching & Learning Policies
Additional Support
Your child may benefit from:
- Behaviour support
- Buddy System
- Social Stories
- Playground support
- Access to quiet areas
- Family Support
- Pastoral support and guidance from a key member of staff
SEN Support
You child may access:
- Drawing & Talking intervention
- Playground support
- Access to quiet space at break times
- Individual Reflection Boards
- Social Stories and Comic Strips
- Technologies to support listening & attention and anger
- Pastoral support during lesson time
- Lego Therapy
- Small group Social Skills and Friendship programmes
- Support from the School Nurse
- Referral for Counselling sessions
- CAMHS referral
- Support, advice & training from specialist