Skip to content ↓

Pastoral

School Early Help offer:

Safeguarding Team:

Designated Safeguarding Lead: Charlotte Hughes

Senior Deputy Safeguarding Lead: Rachel Evans

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead: Adele Davies, Sarah Mills, James Legg

Safeguarding Governor: 

Online-Safety Lead:  

Online-Safety Governor: 

All of the above are contactable on:  01527 962 794

 

Please see our Family Support Offer. For further advice and support, visit our Safeguarding Parents' Support for weblinks to a wealth of services across Worcestershire. 

Family support offer 24-25

 

Starting Well Partnership | Worcestershire | Starting Well (startingwellworcs.nhs.uk)

 

 

Early help means providing advice, help or support where we identify there is a specific need or difficulty within a family. As professionals we work alongside a child, young person and their family / carers to address the challenges they are experiencing, helping them to access the support and make any changes needed. This could be at any point in a child’s life, from birth to 18 years old and on more than one occasion, as we know children and young people are always growing and developing their needs change, as well as the needs of their families and carers. Early help is about supporting children and young people when there is a challenge in their lives or that of their families as soon as possible.

It includes information about relationship support

Housing, finance and debt

Holiday Activities and Food support

Parenting Support

Physical health, mental health and emotional wellbeing.

SEND guidance

Young carers help

For more information visit:

Virtual Family Hub | Worcestershire County Council

Early Help guidance for families and professionals | Worcestershire County Council

 

Is my child too ill for school:  Is my child too ill for school? - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

 

For support in different areas of inclusion needs, how you identify them, what universal strategies you can put in place in your educational setting and where to go to find out more about them and about services that may be able to provide further help and support.

Inclusion in Educational Settings | Worcestershire County Council

 

SearchForHelp (worcestershire.gov.uk)

Are you a member of the public worried about a child? Refer to Children's Social Care | Worcestershire County Council

 

Pastoral 

Thrive is a therapeutic approach to support all children with emotional and social development. 

Our mission is to help all children become more emotionally resilient and better placed to engage with life and learning. We will achieve this through our whole-school approach to wellbeing - proven to improve attendance, behaviour and attainment. 

Thrive promotes emotional and social growth by building positive relationships between a child, their peers and trusted adults, allowing them to explore and understand their feelings safely through a variety of activities. 

  

Thrive helps children feel safe, supported and ready to learn. 

Our Whole School Approach 

  • We currently have a Licenced Thrive Practitioners, Mrs Hughes. 

  • Each class has Whole Class Thrive sessions timetabled once a week. 

  • Children may also work 1-1 or in small groups with our Lead Thrive Practitioner. 

  • PSHE Curriculum taught additionally to Thrive but explicit links made where appropriate. 

  • All children are greeted each morning by staff to ensure a calm and positive start to the day. 

  • Breakfast club is available free of charge for all children. 

  • A wide range of enrichment to support wellbeing. 

https://www.thriveapproach.com/about-thrive/impact-of-thrive/ 

 

Useful Websites 

Young Minds 

https://youngminds.org.uk 

Parents Helpline 0808 802 5544 (Monday-Friday 9.30am-4pm) 

NSPCC Helpline 

Email - help@nspcc.org.uk 

0808 800 500 

SAMARITANS: 116 123 / www.samaritans.org 
CHILDLINE: 0800 1111 / www.childline.org.uk 

 

 

 

Contact Us

Abbeywood First School,
Wood Piece Ln,
Church Hill Way,
Redditch B98 9LR

01527 962794