Our children’s happiness and wellbeing is paramount and it’s a high priority for St Mary’s to invest in key staff to support our children and families.
Pastoral support always begins in the classroom and the Class Teacher and Learning Support Assistants pay a key role in supporting children with behaviour, personal development, emotions, self esteem, resilience and any worries they may have.
Sometimes extra support is needed and class teachers will recommend children for short term, specific pastoral interventions. Parents will always be informed of these.
Mrs Neesham runs ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) Interventions for children and delivers a range of targeted interventions throughout school, which can include: building self-esteem and resilience; helping children build positive relationships and overcome barriers to learning; supporting families through changes such as bereavement or family break up; anxiety; supporting children’s transition to new classes/schools; supporting children at break and lunchtimes with friendship issues; and other social and emotional needs.
Our Nurture Room
We are very lucky to have such a special, safe place in our school to be able to respond to a child’s long or short term needs to ensure they are feeling happy, secure and have everything they need to be able to make progress and be successful in their education.
Secret Toast Club
For some children, coming to school can cause anxiety. We work in partnership with parents to help and welcome children into a safe, caring and fun environment giving them a softer start to the day as well as providing a healthy and nutritious breakfast.
