Mental Health and Wellbeing at Winwick
At Winwick CE, we understand that mental health and wellbeing is so important at every stage of life. Nurturing our mental health can help our pupils to reach their potential and cope with the day to day challenges they face.
Since September 2022, Winwick has had a specialist Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead (Mrs Mills), who is highly trained, and whose focus is on the mental health and wellbeing of our children, but also our wider school community.
We offer a wide range of strategies and programmes linked to mental health and wellbeing, including for staff and parents. If you are struggling with your own mental health and wellbeing, please come in and talk to a member of the team, who can help you to access support. You can also find some useful resources below.
Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
At Winwick CE, we have our own ELSA - Mrs Mills - who is also our Mental health and Well-being Lead. Mrs Mills has successfully completed the ELSA training programme and has implemented all her knowledge and learning from this to develop her ELSE role at Winwick.
Attached below, is the leaflet, explaining all about what ELSA is and how Mrs Mills may be able to help your child. If you feel this may be beneficial to your child please contact your child's class teacher with your concerns and they will refer it to our ELSA.
Nurture Rooms
We have two specially designed Nurture Rooms, which have been developed by our Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead - Mrs Mills - who has used her expertise to design the spaces to ensure they are calm and welcoming so that children can access these when the need arises. The rooms are used to deliver specialist mental health and wellbeing sessions linked to the different programmes we deliver, as well as being accessible for children who may require a calm, quiet space during the day, linked to their individual needs.
Sunshine Room - Key Stage 2
Rainbow Room - EYFS & Key Stage 1