Wellbeing

The HAF programme is designed for school aged children in full time education, who receive benefits related free school meals. To claim your code please visit www.warwickshire.gov.uk/haf.

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Please look out for dates of our Sports and Activity Holiday clubs ran here at school by Mr Powers and other staff members. HAF Codes also accepted. To enquire and/or book please email Mr Powers at info@tkactiveltd.co.uk.

Family Information Service (FIS) are a free information and signposting service for families with children and young people aged 0 – 25 and professionals working with families in Warwickshire.

They cover a wide range of family related topics such as childcare, mediation and contact, divorce and separation, finance, health, bullying, support groups and parenting support.

Please see the attached link for the latest edition of the Family Information Service’s Newsletter – Newsletter.

Early Help is the support we offer to potentially vulnerable children, young people and their families.

The purpose of Early Help is to put in the right support at the right time so that problems are less likely to escalate to a point where the child becomes vulnerable or in need. Early Help is sustainable so that problems are less likely to re-occur. All children, young people and families in Warwickshire are entitled to receive Early Help. This means offering information, advice, guidance, and support to families as soon as a concern emerges, or seems likely to emerge.

• Socialise
• Talk
• Listen
• Be a friend
• Spend time with family
• Say hello and chat

• Move
• Walk
• Dance
• Skip
• Play sport
• Exercise

• Interest
• Relax
• Use your senses
• Be aware of your feelings
• Recognise things around you
• Focus on your breathing

• Learn
• Read a book
• Try a craft
• Join a club
• Try something new
• Set new goals

• Engage
• Smile
• Be kind
• Say thank you
• Offer to help
• Include others
• Volunteer

Supporting Children with Anxiety Workshop, Wednesday 22nd May 2024 10am-12pm.

RISE are offering the opportunity to speak in confidence with a Primary Mental Health Practitioner through a 1:1 consultation

https://cwrise.com/for-parents

They also offer FREE Parent Information Sessions, during the current restrictions these will be delivered via the online platform ZOOM. At these sessions you will have the opportunity to meet other parents and learn about common emotional wellbeing concerns in children/young people and find out what you can do to help!

Parent Information Sessions are available on a range of topics including:

• Anxiety
• Sensory needs
• Emotional Development
• Self-harm
• Challenging Behaviours
• School Refusal
• Self-Esteem

Practical tips to support children’s wellbeing and manage behaviour.

Parenting Smart – a free online resource featuring practical advice and tried-and-tested tips for parents and carers of primary age children.

At Croft Junior School, we value the health and wellbeing of all our pupils, staff and wider community.

Last academic year, we signed up to the Wellbeing Award for Schools, administered by Award Place, in partnership with the National Children’s Bureau.

Wellbeing Award for Schools:

Our School purpose is, “strive for excellence in a caring, happy and safe environment where every child is valued”. This is the aim of our school vision by “promising to promote emotional wellbeing and positive mental health in a safe, nurturing and inclusive environment.” To complement this as part of our commitment to wellbeing of our children, staff and stakeholders, we have begun a journey to work towards achieving a national award called Wellbeing Award for Schools.

It is an award that centres around ensuring effective practice and provision is in place and recognises a school’s efforts to promote and protect positive emotional wellbeing and mental health education and support. The award requires us to recognise what we currently do and offer additional opportunities to support and promote mental health and wellbeing.

The award has a focus on changing the long-term culture of a school and embedding an ethos where mental health is regarded as the responsibility of all. As a school we aim to show commitment to promoting mental health as part of school life, improve the emotional wellbeing of their staff and pupils, ensure mental health problems are identified early and appropriate support provided, offer provision and interventions that matches the needs of its pupils and staff, engage the whole-school community in the importance of mental health awareness and capture the views of parents, pupils and teachers on mental health issues.

At Croft Junior School, we care about the wellbeing of our pupils, staff and wider school community and are always looking for ways that we can help support them all.

There are eight objectives to achieve within the Well-being Award Framework, containing several Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set out within each. The award focuses on ensuring effective practice and provision is in place that promotes the emotional well-being and mental health of both staff and pupils. The award will enable us to develop these practices where necessary and help us to ensure that well-being is embedded in the long-term culture of our school. It will help us to create an ethos where mental health is regarded as the responsibility of all.

With this award, we will demonstrate our commitment to:

• Promoting mental health as part of every day school life
  Improving the emotional well-being of our staff and pupils
• Ensuring mental health problems are identified early and appropriate support provided
• Offering provision and interventions that matches the needs of our pupils and staff
• Promoting the importance of mental health awareness
• Capturing the views of parents, pupils and teachers on mental health issues

We are pleased to introduce you to the Wellbeing Change Team, who will be working collaboratively with all staff and pupils in school to raise the profile of wellbeing and mental health; support colleagues, pupils and families and ensure all stakeholders views are taken into account.

Mrs Claire Grantham – Year 6 teacher, PSHE lead and Award Coordinator

Mrs Sally Farmer – SENDCo, Inclusion lead and Staff Wellbeing Ambassador

Mrs Anne-Marie Keane – Business manager and Staff Wellbeing Ambassador

Miss Rebecca Harris – Year 3 teacher and music lead

Miss Joanne Stockdale – Pastoral and Learning Mentor

Mrs Teighan Perry – Cover Supervisor

Croft Junior School are extremely pleased to introduce you to our 12 Wellbeing Champions!

These children will work alongside our Change Team to support pupils in school with their wellbeing and mental health. The Wellbeing Champions will not only share Pupil Voice on issues raised by children in their classes, they will also have the opportunity to create their own initiatives to raise the profile of Wellbeing and mental health.

The Role of a Wellbeing Champion

• To spread happiness and peace throughout the school.
• To welcome new children and staff to the school.
• To be kind, caring and helpful towards others.
• To always treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
• To promote and put into place the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’

(Connect, Take notice, Give, Keep Learning and Be Active)