Mental Health and Wellbeing
Lego Based Therapy
All of our Foundation Stage staff, teaching assistants and our Learning Support Staff have been trained in Lego Based Therapy in connection with Mindwise and Calm with Carole. Our Vice Principal and Learning Support Cooridnator have also been trained. We currently offer this therapy to individual children, groups of children and as an after schools activity.
Drawing and Talking Therapy
Our Vice Principal is a qualified Drawing and Talking therapist and as a school
we offer this support to pupils on a 1-1 basis.
Drawing and Talking is a therapeutic intervention for children and adults. Through a 12-week cycle of sessions this non-intrusive tool allows children and young people to bring what they need to their sessions. Utilising drawing as a way to help them express their feelings differently in ordinary verbal language. The Drawing and Talking therapeutic approach allows individuals to discover and communicate emotions through a non-directed technique.