Stag Lane Primary School & Nursery

 At Stag Lane Primary, we believe that a child’s mental health is as important as their physical health. Difficulties are a part of life and sadly, many children face significant life events that can affect their emotional wellbeing. We feel it is important to acknowledge and empower children to understand their emotions whether they are positive or negative. We aim to develop their coping skills and resilience to support them when they face challenges, enabling them to grow into healthy, well-rounded young people.

At Stag Lane we are committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing of all our pupils, staff and parents/carers. We understand that anyone can face life events which can make them feel vulnerable and need additional emotional support to manage and cope.

To support the emotional well-being needs of our school, we are lucky to have 3 Learning Mentors that can offer Pastoral care to any child when needed. Learning Mentors are available to work with children and families and provide support to help them manage times of change or difficulty.

In any one day, a learning mentor may help children with their learning, with friendship issues, anger management issues, liaising with teachers, supporting behaviour management strategies and developing positive relationships with families. They are there to help children overcome any barriers that may affect their learning potential. Learning Mentors offer various interventions throughout the school day. These may include group or one-to-one interventions.

• Listening to children and discussing anything that is worrying them.
• Increasing motivation
• Developing emotional literacy
• Developing coping strategies, understanding emotions and anger management
• Building resilience
• Encouraging children to do their best in school and setting manageable targets
• Helping to raise a child’s confidence and self-esteem
• Developing social or communication skills