Our Pastoral Team provides a safe and calm environment to support and nurture children’s social, emotional and mental health and helping them to become emotionally and mentally resilient. The Pastoral Team support children by listening, talking and problem solving or using interventions like the ones listed below. This can involve individual support or small groups and gives children the opportunity to express themselves.

Parental support is also offered through referrals to outside agencies, parent courses to support children’s learning and coffee afternoons which we aim to hold half termly.

Pastoral Team Staff

• Karen Brooks – Pastoral Lead and Young Carers Champion
• Frances Wakeling - Attendance Support
• Jenie Vaughan-Wright – Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
• Lucy Voice – Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
• Sarah Chapman – Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

Interventions

• Nurture and Chat Time
• Time Out
• Social Skills
• Friendship Support
• Lego Therapy (Communication and Teamwork)
• Speech and Language (with support from Speech and Language Therapists)
• Anger Management
• Morning Nurture Group (Invitation Only)
• Feelings Work

The Parent Hub

Suffolk County Council's Parent Hub provides a single place for Suffolk parents or carers to find parenting advice and support to help their child's development.

Parenting Programmes

A selection of Solihull Approach parenting courses are free to anyone with a Suffolk Postcode which can be accessed and completed online.

To access these courses, please use the website inourplace.co.uk and register by setting up an account, adding the password of your choice, and on the second page in the righthand corner use the access code WOLSEY to take you to the landing page.

PACT (Parents and Carers Together)

PACT began in 2013 when two local parents realised they shared concern for children and young people experiencing mental health issues in Suffolk. After meeting up regularly and offering support over coffee, PACT was established to help locate, support and maintain the ongoing wellbeing of other parents and carers in similar positions. PACT believes that through offering a safe space to listen and support (with no judgement), providing training resources and welcoming a variety of guest speakers with appropriate knowledge and experience we will enable and empower parents to continue to support the wellbeing of our children and young people as well as ourselves.

Bereavement Support

St Elizabeth Hospice’s 565 Service provides emotional support for children, young people and families living with a family member with progressive illness. The service also provides bereavement support following the loss of a loved one, via family meetings, one to one counselling and group work.

The school has completed St Elizabeth Hospice’s Dying to Talk programme which encourages young people to have open conversations about end-of-life and bereavement. Part of St Elizabeth Hospice’s 565 Service, which provides emotional and bereavement support for children, young people and families living with a family member with progressive illness, Dying to Talk is a training programme which raises standards in conversations about end-of-life and awareness around bereavement and support services available.

The St Elizabeth Hospice website has lots of useful information tailored for parents, schools and children, including a range of activities suitable for people of younger ages.

Useful Websites

There is a list of useful websites to support children’s wellbeing on our SEND Pages.

Page updated by HF on 08/08/25.