Mental health and wellbeing offer
The Thrive Approach
At Cherry Tree, supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our whole school community including pupils, staff and parents/carers is at the heart of what we do. We have agreed that wellbeing is a state of being comfortable, healthy and happy. We know that everyone experiences life challenges that can make us vulnerable and at times, anyone may need additional emotional support. Everyone has a role to play in promoting positive health and wellbeing across school. Children, staff and parent/carers are encouraged to talk about their feelings and to ask for help when they need it.
For all of us at Cherry Tree, our first priority is to care for every child in a secure, friendly environment enabling them to enjoy their time in school and feel confident to learn. In order to maintain this ethos, the staff team work together to support children’s emotional and social learning, we maintain this attitude during lesson times, break times and through all activities that take place throughout the day to make sure our children feel secure in school. This method is called the Thrive Approach.
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Thrive is a whole school learning and development approach which supports children to develop their emotional health, well-being and social skills, all of which are needed to enable learning to take place.
Thrive supports children to be able to find healthy and effective strategies to express their emotions or deal with how they’re feeling through building positive relationships with their peers and members of staff.
Thrive promotes a child’s emotional and social growth by allowing them the time and space to be able to explore and understand their feelings through various activities.
Our Pastoral Team
Thrive Practitioners
Mrs McHugh and Mrs Turner are trained as Thrive Practitioners at Cherry Tree - they co-ordinate the whole school approach and the 1:1 / small group interventions.
ELSA staff
Mrs Travers and Mrs Nixon are trained to support the emotional development of children in Cherry Tree. they help the children to learn and understand their emotions and resect the feelings of those around around them
Children and Families Team
Miss Pulford and Mrs Horrocks are part of the Children and Families. they can signpost and support al our children and their families. They work with a lot of agencies to ensure that
Senior Mental Health Leaders.
Mrs Fraser and Mrs McHugh are 'Senior Mental Health Lead' trained. This means they have been trained to have an in depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing. Please speak to one of them if you are concerned about your mental health as they will be able to guide you to further support.
Mental Health First-Aiders.
Mrs Brooks, Miss Newton, Mrs Atherton are Mental Health first Aiders
