At John Wilkinson Primary School and Nursery, we aim to support families at the earliest point to ensure that we can provide signposting and support to offer positive outcomes for children and their families.

We work with a range of agencies to offer support to children and families according to their needs.

We can:

• Offer specific programmes to support children’s academic gaps in knowledge. Please see your child’s class teacher in the first instance.
• Offer support for children’s wellbeing, anxiety, physical needs, sensory needs and behavioural challenges. We offer a Nurture Group three times a week for children who are identified as needing emotional support for a variety of reasons. Mrs Fleming is our SENCo and can signpost teachers to programmes to meet specific needs of individual children.
• Refer families to the school nursing team for a range of needs. Please see Mrs Beard or Mrs Fleming for further information.
• Refer families to the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in North Shropshire. They can provide a range of bespoke support for families with trained professionals to work with children and families who may be experiencing anxiety, stress or behavioural challenges. Mrs Beard is our Mental Health lead and can support with any queries about this service.
• Refer families to the Early Help support team to support with a range of needs, including, but not limited to; housing support, financial support, emotional well-being, safeguarding, family or parenting support.
• Refer children to the Bee U service for specialist team support referrals and diagnosis-seeking referrals.

Early Help

Early Help was re-launched in July 2024 as part of our focus on early intervention and prevention. The Early Help website has been updated and can be found here. The webpages also include full details of E-HAST (Early Help and Support Team) which is a single point of contact for partner agencies, children, young people and their families, focused on making sure that the right support is put in place as soon as it is needed.

 

Shropshire SEN Local Offer

There are lots of useful links to support Shropshire families on the Shropshire SEN Local Offer Page. We would recommend that you take a look to see if anything may be useful to you and your family.

Please see the links below for information and guidance to support families.

The Shropshire Parenting Help and Support line can be accessed on 01743 250950. Monday to Thursday 9.30am-4.30pm and Fridays 9.30am-3.30pm.

Parenting help and support line poster

Does your child struggle with sleep? If so, please see the poster below for support and guidance groups to help.

Sleep Tight Poster 

Would you like to know more about child development or how to help your child with behaviour? Or connect with other parents? If so, please see the workshop schedule below for ways to better understand your child.

Understanding Your Child Poster