Our vision at Hayes Primary School is to develop the whole child is at the heart of everything we do, to ensure that every child achieves their personal best. Pastoral support is an important part of that, and we work hard to ensure the children feel happy, safe and confident and with a strong sense of self.

Mrs Griffin, our Pupil Support Lead is available if you have any concerns for your child's emotional wellbeing. We want to work with you in partnership, and are here to support. If there are things going on outside of school, then we would always ask you keep us in the loop (such as marriage breakdowns, family illness, parental mental health, change in financial circumstances etc). We want to support you as a family, and we will always do this without judgement and confidentially.

There are lots of different ways we can support - signposting to parental courses, referrals for external support, team around the child meetings, direct work with the child etc. We are here, our door is open, so do not hesitate to reach out.

Please find below some resources for Parents and Carers

Useful Websites:

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2023/what-to-do-if-a-child-is-worried

https://thesleepcharity.org.uk/information-support/children/

The BCP parenting hotline refers to a service offered by the Bromley Children Project (BCP), which is part of the Bromley Council's Children and Families Hub. The hotline number is 020 8461 7259. This service provides informal support and advice to parents and carers on various parenting-related matters

Bromley Y offer free webinars for parents, carers, and young people - they cover topics such as low mood, sleeping issues, managing anxiety, transitions etc.

Webinars for young people

Stress and Worry Management for Young People

These webinars cover all aspects of emotional wellbeing difficulties with a different focus each month on the difficulties young people may be facing at that time in their academic lives.  For example, focusing on preparation for exams and exam stress at certain times of the year or adapting to change when starting at a new school and making new friends in the early Autumn term.

Developing Healthy Study Habits

This webinar aims to help you understand academic stress better and help you to create healthy study habits which makes this stress easier to manage. This webinar will also offer options for the 'next steps' should you want further support. Parents/Carers are welcome to join the webinar too.

 Webinars for parents

Emotionally Based School Avoidance

Helping Children and Young People with Anxiety, Fears and Worries

Helping Children with Sleep Difficulties

 

Their social media pages and feeds on Instagram and Facebook contain many self-help and psycho- educational resources as well as information about Bromley Y,  as well as the Bromley Y website, where theur Calendar shows all webinars for each month, in one place with links to register, FREE on Eventbrite.