Parents

If you have any any concerns about your child's mental health or, as a family, you would like some extra support, please speak to your child's class teacher or you can contact via the school office:

Miss Williams - Mental Health Lead

Mrs Cresswell, Mrs Clutterbuck and Ms Taylor - Safeguarding officers

Miss Newbury and Mr Donaldson - Pastoral support

Mrs Sue Summers - Parent and Family Support Advisor

Mental Health Support Team (MHST)

The MHST work in partnership with Young Somerset & the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The MHST aim to improve children & young people’s access to early mental health and wellbeing support. They use Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health diffculties in educational settings.

The five essential steps of Emotion Coaching:

• Be aware of your child’s emotion
• Recognise your child’s expression of emotion as a perfect moment for intimacy and teaching
• Listen with empathy and validate your child’s feelings
• Help your child learn to label their emotions with words
• Set limits when you are helping your child to solve problems or deal with upsetting situations appropriately

ChatHealth is a new mobile health service for parents and young people in Somerset making it easier to get health and wellbeing advice. Available Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm.

• Parents of children 0-4: Confidential help from the Health Visiting Team for parents and carers of 0-4 years. Just send a text 07480 635514
• Parents of children 5-19 years: If you have a child 5-19 and looking for confidential help and advice? Just send a text to your School Nurse Team. Text 07480 635515
• Young People 11-19 years: Discreet and quick. If you’re aged 11-19 it only takes one text to start making a difference. You’ll get confidential advice from a local School Nurse. You don’t have to give your name if you don’t want to. Text 07480 635516  

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