Casterton Primary Academy
Early Help
Early Help
Cheryl Blezard is Casterton Primary Academy's Child and Family Wellbeing Leader.
The role of the Child and Family Wellbeing Leader is to provide advice, mental health and early help support services for children and their families.
Cheryl works closely with children, parents and other family members on issues that may be impacting on themselves and/or other family members' wellbeing. She can offer support and advice on a wide range of issues and can signpost parents towards outside agencies if required.
Part of Cheryl’s role is to work closely with all staff, outside agencies and organisations to improve opportunities for children and their families at our school. An integral part of her role is linking families with other agencies, both statutory and non-statutory such as school nurses, parenting workshops/programmes, the Children and Family Well Being Service, counselling services, financial and housing advice services, parent support groups, to name a few! Families may choose to work with Cheryl on an Early Help Plan, which can help families identify the aspects of their lives they would like to change and identify what support is needed to help make this happen.
Sometimes the stresses of everyday life can be overwhelming for all of us and you may feel you just need to talk these through with someone. You may need help with social and emotional wellbeing, including friendship issues, grief and loss, parental separation, parenting, absence and lateness, behaviour and other issues outside of these. Please feel free to come in and talk to Cheryl by asking for her at the school office or ask to speak to her by ringing 01282 435657.
Below are a number of links to website with more support and advice on a range of issues that impact families.
Wellbeing
At Casterton Primary Academy, we believe that it is important to teach pupils about physical health and mental wellbeing to give them the information that they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing. The social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that young people learn in the classroom can help them to build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their mental health throughout their lives.
Across the school, we provide a range of activities and opportunities to promote emotional health and mental well-being such as the daily mile, carefully planned activities within the curriculum, assemblies, pastoral care from our Enablement Leader and support from CFW Team and NHS Mental Health Practitioners.
In addition to this, we also offer a wide range of support for all our children and families. Further information on the support we offer can be found in the document below.
Children and Family Support
Mrs Blezard is our Child and Family Wellbeing Lead. She is responsible for supporting families with attendance, pastoral care and is the school based link with CFWS and the NHS Mental Health Practitioners.
Mental Health Practitioner
We have a Mental Health Practitioner that visits our academy one day a week from the Mental Health School Team. They can help young people and their carers to work out practical ways of coping with upsetting things, they can provide lots of information and advice, and work with everyone involved to find positive steps forward.
#HelloYellow
Each October, Casterton Primary Academy supports the Young Minds World Mental Health Day. Within school, we spend time focusing on activites to support mental health and explore the work of the charity. We then come to school wearing something yellow and provide donations where possible.