Family Support

Support for Parents/Carers:

  • One-to-one contact.
  • Meetings in school or at home.
  • Parent support groups.
  • Drop-in sessions.
  • Telephone contact.
  • E-mail contact.
  • Providing information about available help and support.
  • Helping to gain access and support from outside agencies.
  • Supporting parents/carers in multi-agency meetings.
  • Holding regular coffee mornings so parents can meet up informally.

Support for Children:

  • To continue to develop good relationships.
  • To continue to meet their social and emotional needs.
  • To continue to work directly with them on a 1:1 basis or in small groups.
  • To listen to them and offer support.
  • To provide support for children experiencing difficulties in school or at home.
  • To extend the ELSA role to include nurture groups.
  • To help with transition at any point, in both Year R, Year 6 and for all new entrants to our school.

EMTAS (Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Services) in Hampshire

I have recently had the pleasure of working with Olha, a Bi-lingual ELSA who works for EMTAS (Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Services) in Hampshire.  We have worked collaboratively with 2 of our pupils from Ukraine. We had 7 weekly sessions together and we all benefited, Olha and myself included, as we were able to share resources and ideas.
Sarah Coles, Team Leader at EMTAS was so pleased with the way we collaborated that she asked if we would be interviewed for a blog to be posted on their website.