Jigsaw/PSHE

Jigsaw offers a comprehensive PSHE Programme that includes the statutory Relationships and Health Education, giving children relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and to develop positive relationships with themselves and others. With strong emphasis on emotional literacy, building resilience and nurturing mental and physical health. Jigsaw enables us to deliver engaging and relevant PSHE within a whole-school approach. Jigsaw lessons also include mindfulness allowing children to advance their emotional awareness, concentration and focus.

Working with Parents

We value the input and feedback of all parents and strive to develop strong links. We hold regular parents forum meetings and are always looking at bespoke ways to hear the voice of families throughout our school community. It is vital that all parents feel empowered to have their say and work with us to build strong relationships in order to benefit our pupils. All parents are invited to attend two Parents’ evenings per Academic year and we regularly hold curriculum workshops, where parents can work alongside their child in order to build on their own knowledge and skills in supporting them with their learning.

Thrive

The Thrive Approach draws on insights from the fields of neuroscience, attachment theory and child development to provide a powerful way of working with children and young people that supports optimal social and emotional development. In addition, the Thrive Approach enables practitioners to work in a targeted way with children and young people who may have struggled with difficult life events to help them re-engage with life and learning. Thrive is used as a whole-school approach at TGPAYT, to support the social and emotional wellbeing of all pupils. Our practitioners are Mrs Parsons and Miss Burgess.

Inclusion Team

Our inclusion and support staff have a combination of various unique skills to offer, from SEMH to complex communication needs groups. The staff show great commitment in helping those often vulnerable students achieve and grow in character.

SEND Support

AT TGPAYT we aim to ensure that children and young people with SEND are given equal opportunities to fulfil their academic and personal potential and are enabled and encouraged to feel worthy and important members of the Academy community. We value every pupil as an individual and are committed to supporting each pupil to achieve their potential and to prepare for adult life. We are a fully inclusive Academy and believe that educational inclusion is about equal opportunities for all learners, within a diverse and multicultural community with a nurturing ethos.

Family Support Worker

Mrs Parsons is an experienced member of our safeguarding team with expertise in the following areas:

• Family support
• Working with external agencies.
• THRIVE

Mrs Parsons works with children and their families to support them through times of difficulty and can signpost families to access external support agencies.

Malachi

Malachi are a not for profit, therapeutic family support organisation founded in 1991, working across the Midlands and Staffordshire. They support parents/carers, young people and professionals through a range of counselling based therapeutic interventions to create lasting change.

https://www.malachi.org.uk

SENTAA

Special Educational Needs Teaching Assessment and Advice (SENTAA) support schools in meeting their statutory responsibilities in relation to pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). SENTAA delivers high quality assessment, intervention and advice for schools and settings in order to enable children and young people with SEND to make the best possible progress.

http://www.sentaa.co.uk/

Educational Psychologist

We have access to support and advice from the local authority Educational Psychologists, from whom we can seek advice or make requests for them to complete assessments with students who may be showing challenging behaviour. Once assessments are completed, our SEND Team adapt profiles for each individual child which staff use to support their need in and around school.

Edward’s Trust

Edward’s Trust is a local bereavement charity that supports children, young people and adults facing loss and surviving bereavement. The Trust supports around 600 families a year which equates to around 3,000 family members. Referrals relate not only to loss from illness but now include loss from violence, accident, suicide, and pre-natal, neo-natal and post-natal loss.

https://edwardstrust.org.uk/about-us/#

SISS

Solihull’s Specialist Inclusion Support Service (SISS) is a Local Authority Service which supports children and young people who have special educational needs or disabilities. The service is divided into five teams, each of which specialises in a particular area of SEND. Specialist advisory teachers and assistants, known as inclusion support practitioners, who are experienced and additionally qualified in their particular area, work with the children and young people in their school or nursery setting and sometimes with their families too. In addition, their role often involves training school staff and liaising with other agencies to ensure the best outcomes for that child or young person.

https://socialsolihull.org.uk/localoffer/education/children-and-young-peoples-send-service/siss-2/

CAMHS (SOLAR)

Locally, SOLAR consists of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Barnardo’s and Autism West Midlands and they work together to provide emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children and young people in Solihull. They provide multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people with mental health or severe emotional and behavioural difficulties.

https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/our-services/solar-youth-services/