Staff

Ms Emma Bartlett
Emotional Literacy Support and Family Liaison Officer

Mrs Jo Lopez
Emotional Literacy Support and Family Liaison Officer

ELSAs are emotional literacy support assistants. They are teaching assistants who have had special training from educational psychologists to support the emotional development of children and young people in school. ELSAs have regular professional supervision from educational psychologists to help them in their work.

Mrs Becky Dalgarno

Parent & Family Support Adviser (PFSA)

As a school, we have found that many parents and carers find parenting to be an emotional roller coaster; after all, children aren’t delivered with an instruction manual. Our School’s Parent & Family Support Advisor is trained Facilitator in:

1. Mindful Emotion Coaching. This is about building emotional resilience by talking about emotions behind the behaviours and the understanding of the neuroscience of mindfulness, emotion regulation and emotion intelligence. Utilising John Gottman’s 5 steps of Emotion Coaching – practical ideas for re training our brains and developing our emotional resilience.

2. Tuning in to Kids is a copyrighted, manualized and evidence-based Parenting Programme developed in The Mindful Centre, Melbourne, Australia. This is to help support parents – to help them teach their children how to understand and regulate their emotions and thus develop emotional competence.

3. Family Links Andy is a Parent Group Leader to deliver this nurture programme which promotes emotional health & mental wellbeing, relationship skills and positive behaviour management strategies for parents and carers and their children. This also provides effective strategies to encourage co-operation, responsible behaviour and manage challenging behaviour in children.