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The results from our Parent, Carer and Pupils Questionnaire in April 2016 are now available to view or download from our website. Please visit the Parent & Carer Feedback page of our website.

Thank you to everyone who took part.

MindEd for Families is a new website hoping to transform mental health support for relatives in difficulty and crisis.

MindEd for Families offers a large range of e-learning resources, developed to give anyone in regular contact with children and young people the skills to identify and support those they suspect to be affected by mental health issues.

You can find out more on about the MindEd for Families on our website.

Election fever hit Walworth this week.  All pupils and staff being involved in selecting a Head Boy and Head Girl from our year 6 children.

With the country gripped in discussion about  EU membership, Walworth children have been looking at the components of an election and democracy as a whole in selecting peers for these two important positions. All the nominated children gave their addresses to the whole school as to why they should be chosen. The children did fantastically well speaking confidently and precisely about their qualities.

Each class has discussed democracy at their levels of understanding and how important they are in the process. Within school children make choices at many points during the year, but this election brought the whole school together in a meaningful purpose to select children for these important roles. The successful pupils will be involved in meeting parents and visitors in school, showing them around and answering questions. Another role will be their involvement in being part of the decision making process for new employees to our school. These are important roles as the children will represent all the values we support as a whole school. They will represent visitors first view of Walworth and give a pupil`s view of any potential new employee.

After all the votes were counted the successful Head Boy was James O  and the successful Head Girl in the election was Ellie C. Both of the successful candidates gave an acceptance speech to the school thanking them for their support. The Chair Of Governors, who attended the election result, commented that clearly both young people were delighted to be chosen and he looked forward to meeting them when he comes into school.

The school is developing a provision to further support and promote our children’s emotional health and well-being. Walworth School provides ‘wrap around’ care in which we want children to feel safe, secure and able to talk to a trusting adult when they need to talk. The National Minimum Standard 2.2 states: ‘the school identify a person other than a parent, outside the residential and teaching staff, who children may contact directly about personal problems or concerns at the school’.

Susanne Matthews (PSA) has level 3 training in Active Listening Skills awarded by CPCAB (Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Award Body) and is qualified in this Counselling Therapy Technique. Suzanne will be offering ‘Active Listening Sessions’ to children to help support their emotional wellbeing in areas of low self-esteem, bereavement and loss, managing anger and frustration and any other concerns they may wish to discuss, the list is not exhaustive.

The PSA works within the protocol of Child Protection and Working with Children and Families. Children identified by their class teacher to be experiencing anxiety and emotional distress can be referred to Suzanne as an additional support. Parental consent will be needed before the Active Listening Sessions with a child could begin.

Teachers will be asked to complete a referral form and an initial pre evaluation questionnaire, before the child can engage with the intervention. Once the child has finished engaging in the sessions the class teacher will be given a post evaluation questionnaire to complete. Results from the evaluations and the behaviour monitoring forms will be analysed to determine the outcomes.

The findings and outcomes relating to the effectiveness of the intervention will then be made available.

Note: ‘Active Listening Sessions’ is not an intervention for children who are receiving CAMHS emotional therapeutic work.

Downloads

You can view or download the above information in poster format by clicking the link below:

Active Listening Sessions for Children Flyer

The Roller Coaster Support Group offer help for parents/carers who are supporting a child or young person with any kind of emotional or mental health problem including: anxiety low mood depression self harm eating disorders sleep problems suicidal thoughts obsessions and compulsions You are not alone!

Further information about what we do and when we meet can be found on the County Durham Families Information Services website.