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Mrs Hague is the Pastoral Lead at North Leigh Primary school. You can contact her about accessing pastoral support via the school office or email her directly chague@north-leigh.oxon.sch.uk. The aims of pastoral support at North Leigh CE Primary School:
 Locality Community Support Service - LCSS Early Help in Oxfordshire is one of the services school can contact to help families in our community access help when they are in need of a little extra support. A helpful guide to outline the Early Help process can be found here. Should you wish to access support from this service, please contact school in the first instance. Please find below an introduction from our LCSS Link Worker: Hello everyone, Coffee Morning Workshops Thank to all of those who attended our first coffee morning. Below are the PowerPoint slides that were presented by Mrs Hague to outline how Zones Of Regulation are used here in school. If you would like a copy of the pack that was available at the coffee morning, please email to request one Mrs Hague chague@north-leigh.oxon.sch.uk. We were joined by Mitch from 'Cups of Calm and More'. Mitch provided some free emotional regulation tools that are included in the pack and demonstrated her wonderful products. Please do get in contact with her via the website if you are interested in purchasing any of the resources. Amy Beesely also attended. Amy wanted to introduce herself in order to to put a face to her name. Further information about the support we can access from Amy is detailed above in the 'Locality Community Support Service' section ZoR Coffee Morning 22nd November 2023 Service Families The lives of Service Children may be more demanding than those of their civilian peers. Deployment of a parent, house and school moves that can come with a military career can be de-stabilising for all of the family. We recognise that regular moves can make it difficult to settle in school, to make new friends, and to have access to a consistent curriculum. We provide tailored pastoral support to any Service Children who seek it. Our Service Children have been working towards this event since January. Our aim was raising the profile of our Service Families within our school community. They have planned, advertised, delivered an assembly, sold out an art and bake sale, raised over £400 for Little Troopers and finally, four of our service children were lucky enough to attend the Oxfordshire wide Festival of Friends event. This was held at Oxford Brookes where the children took part in a juggling workshop, a tour of the campus and had the chance to look around the exhibitions and displays from the 18 other schools that also attended. They came away with lots of ideas for what we can do for our project next year! A huge well done to all of our Service Children, they have displayed our value of Community in abundance. They should all be very proud of themselves! Useful links: Little Troopers at Home RAF Families Federation RAF Brize Norton Facilities Young Carers We understand that some children may have a caring role within their home. This will bring them extra responsibilities and put pressure on them, which in turn could affect their learning. They may need to have extra support to help them get the most out of their school day so that they can more happily access their learning and with more confidence. We understand that a child could be caring for a parent, grandparent or sibling who has a disability, mental or physical illness or is affected by substance misuse. We aim to support our Young Carers by providing them with group sessions that are fun, support them emotionally and enable them to share information and experiences with other Young Carers in school. Please use this form if you wish for your child to join our Young Carers group in school. Useful links: Be Free YC A charity for Young Carers in Oxfordshire Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) What is ELSA? Please read our ELSA leaflet to explain how it works here at North Leigh. There will always be children and young people in schools facing life challenges that detract from their ability to engage with learning. Some will require greater support to increase their emotional literacy than others. ELSA is an initiative developed and supported by Educational Psychologists. It recognises that children learn better and are happier in school if their emotional needs are also addressed. In ELSA we aim to provide support for a wide range of emotional needs:
Recognising emotions Anxiety Self-esteem Social skills Friendship skills Anger management Loss and bereavement It should be considered that change cannot necessarily be achieved rapidly and is dependent upon the context and complexity of the presenting issues. For children with complex or long-term needs it is unrealistic to expect ELSA intervention to resolve all their difficulties, however support will be designed to target specific aspects of a child's need. Training and development of ELSAs is an ongoing process and wisdom is required to recognise when issues are beyond the level of expertise that could reasonably be expected of an ELSA. In these cases, school supports parents with referrals for specialist counselling, play therapy or to CAMHS. Mrs Hague has regular meetings with an Educational Psychologist who is able to offer advice on suitability or nature of ELSA involvement in complex cases. So what do the children think? On completion of their ELSA programmes, we ask the children to reflect on their experiences and to kindly leave us some feedback. Below are some of the words children have used to describe ELSA sessions.  |
My name is Amy and I work for the Locality Community Support Service (LCSS) and will be the link worker for North Leigh CE Primary School. As your school's link worker I will be able to offer support and guidance to school staff, refer and signpost to external agencies and attend Team Around the Family meetings. The aim of our service is to ensure families and professionals have their support needs met by those agencies within the community.
There will be opportunities arranged for me to meet with you in person where I am happy to answer any questions you may have; I have worked with families for many years and I want to do everything I can to ensure positive outcomes for everyone.
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North Leigh C of E Primary School
Park Road North Leigh Witney OX29 6SS 01993 881525 email office.3128@north-leigh.oxon.sch.uk |