The mental health and wellbeing of our children is very important to us. We provide space and support in a variety of ways – some of which are listed below. There are also many external agencies who we partner with to help parents – which can be accessed directly. These are also listed below with links where relevant.
Learning Mentors
Emmanuel and Kieron of KidsIn2Sport specialise in supporting children’s learning through sport 1:1 as well as being available during lunch time and working with their teachers and the SENCO
Main areas of support: emotional and behaviour
Frequency: daily
Art Therapist
Iraxte is a professional councillor and trained art therapist who works with children 1:1 using art as a medium on a confidential basis.
Main areas of support: emotional and behaviour, confidence building
Frequency: weekly
Reach Out Learning Mentors
Charity that provide 12 mentors once per week after school in partnership with parents.
Main areas of support: emotional and behaviour, confidence building
Frequency: weekly
NHS CAHMS
This is a child and adolescent mental health service provided by the Borough
Main areas of support: emotional and behaviour support
Frequency: weekly
Arsenal
Community Partnership that provides coaches to read with reluctant readers to work on their confidence.
Main areas of support: reading and confidence
Frequency: weekly
Urgent help can be accessed through Place2Be
Parents or children can access urgent help by clicking on this link
https://www.place2be.org.uk/page/get-urgent-help/#
Charlie Waller Mental Health Resources
https://www.charliewaller.org/place-parent-support provides a family pack to support parents with children with mental health issues.
Soapbox and Local Village Network
SoapBox is an Islington Council funded youth provision and provide a STEAM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Arts/Maths) Mentoring programme funded by the Greater London Authority.
Richard Reeves
Year 5 additional tuition funding grant for Year 5 for pupil premium children not reaching targets both in expected and greater depth in reading, writing and mathematics.
