Keep Up With Us

  • Mental Health Awareness Week

    Mental Health Awareness Week

    This week has been mental health awareness week.  This is an annual event and encourages people in the UK to focus on achieving good mental health.  The theme this year has been ‘anxiety’.  Sometimes to help someone who is experiencing high levels of anxiety, we need to show kindness.  Think about what will help them. … Read more

  • Hope For Us All

    Hope For Us All

    In a previous blog, we introduced you to Alfie and Lilly and you will have seen them on our website and all our paperwork. Alfie and Lilly were created by Ursula Hurst who is an illustrator, author, and an artist.  She has such a creative mind and has fun with her illustrations.  Ursula was introduced in an earlier… Read more

  • The Damage Looks After Me – Michael Rosen

    The Damage Looks After Me – Michael Rosen

    I read this Tweet by Michael Rosen and it made me think about the children in our schools who will be feeling exactly like this. Some will cope and will have support networks out of school that help them to work through the feelings they are experiencing. Some will use it to give them strength… Read more

  • Socially Speaking

    Socially Speaking

    When we do individual or group work with the children, we always have a focus on developing social skills.  We do this through various resources, but we often use ‘The Socially Speaking Game’. This month we want to share the game with you. This brilliant board game teaches and reinforces social skills in a fun… Read more

  • Working With Children

    Working With Children

    In our job we get to work with lots of amazing children.  We are passionate about supporting all of the children that we work with; they are all so individual and unique. We work really hard to develop a positive and trusting relationship with the children that we support.  The most important thing is understanding… Read more

  • Reach Values

    Reach Values

    Welcome back to everyone that has returned after the Easter holidays.  As I am writing this, the sun is shining, and everything feels so much better in the sun. The start of a new term ……. another new beginning.  When we shared a class in the PRU, Claire and I always started the new term… Read more