Social, Emotional and Mental Health

My child needs support with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties

Your child 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.

IQFT @ Heyes Lane:

All pupils at Heyes Lane are entitled to, and receive Inclusive Quality-First Teaching (IQFT) though a broad and balanced academic and social curriculum, which is appropriately differentiated to meet individual learner needs.  This is achieved through:

• Highly skilled, creative 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 charts
• Modelled language through repetition, emphasis and expansion
• More thinking time
• Writing slope boards, pencil grips and coloured overlays for reading
• Spell checkers for KS2
• Appropriate seating plan
• Talk partners & Peer support
• SEAL programme delivered through our PSHE curriculum
• Whole school approach to meta-cognition through our Learning Goals: Positive, Active and Creative, along with Challenges by Choice
• 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
• Health Care Plan
• Buddy System
• Reflection Boards
• Playground support
• Access to quiet areas
• Family Support
• Pastoral support and guidance from a key member of staff

SEN Support

You child may access:

• Circle of Friends intervention
• Health Care Plan
• 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
• Workstation area

• Small group Talkabout Self-Esteem, Social Skills and Friendship programmes
• Small group Emotional Literacy programme
• Longford Park Outreach Support
• Support from the School Nurse
• School-based Counselling sessions
• Behaviour & Emotional support using Risk & Resilience and RAMP Models
• Support, advice & training from specialists