Emotional Literacy Support (ELSA)

We have a trained Teaching Partner, Mrs Helen Cadd, who runs support groups and interventions to support children’s emotional wellbeing.

The role of ELSA is to respond to referrals made by class teachers to provide additional support for a child. She is available throughout the school day to engage with children in supporting them with challenging circumstances that they may be facing either at school or at home. These can vary considerably from friendship problems to bereavement; transition in and out of school to house and school moves; being equipped with appropriate social skills to self-esteem building.

Other pastoral support programmes we can deliver include R.E.S.T (Resilience and Engagement Scale and Toolkit linked to our Jigsaw PHSE programme) and the Social Emotional Curriculum (from the Mulberry Bush School)

Mental Health Support Team

Our school is linked to a Mental Health Professional.MHST Introduction Letter

Healthy Eating

We have a developed a whole school food policy in response to the growing national concerns about children’s health and wellbeing linked to their diet. Our food provisions for  Breakfast and After School Club, promote the healthy eating.

Our school meals provider ensures all of our school meals are freshly prepared, healthy and nutritionally balanced – and also very popular with our children!

We are not only committed to providing healthy foods ourselves and educating our children about healthy eating; we wish to support our parents and carers with promoting healthy eating at home. Please see our Whole School Food Policy for more information and guidance.

Being Active

We have a great range of physical after school activities available to our children on top of our PE Curriculum. Our break and lunchtimes have sporting activities available to children as well as their free play – with ball games being held in our dedicated ball area inside a SMOOGA, skipping activities, hula-hoops and other fun fitness play.

As part of the Burford Partnership our school takes part in sporting tournaments and festivals. The tournament provides our children the opportunity to compete against other schools and the whole year group festivals mean that all pupils have the chance to try something new.

The whole school has taken part in many fundraising fitness challenges for charities, including our race-for-life in aid of Cancer Research UK and skip-a-thons for the British Heart Foundation.