Help For Families

Student and Family Support Team (SAFS)

Purpose:

• Early Identification: SaFS team work to proactively identify student needs and intervene before small issues become larger problems that negatively impact progress. These can relate to academic growth, social-emotional learning, attendance, or behaviour management. 
• Providing individualised support: The SaFS team creates a tailored plan for each student based on their unique needs, and monitors student progress toward pre-determined goals. 
• Facilitating collaboration: SaFS teams promote collaboration between classroom teachers, counsellors, leaders, families, and other specialists. This helps ensure that no student falls through the cracks and every child achieves their full potential. 

Student Support Team members are: 

• Positive: We find positive qualities and bright spots in data to discuss with team members, and positively communicate with families, students, and colleagues.  We are kind and compassionate when discussing the whole child.
• Objective: We thoughtfully use data to understand and report on pupils’ present attainment, assessments, behaviour and attendance.  We are solution focused.
• Flexible: We discuss how pupils can make progress, and consider interventions and adaptations that can help a pupil meet goals and reach their full potential.
• Prepared: We arrive on time, ready to review data and discuss information about pupils, and respect the time of other team members. 

Our SaFS team is:

Mrs Costello (Lead, SENDCo, DDSL, PP lead)

Mrs Norman (Mental health and wellbeing lead and Pupil Support Base lead)

Miss Mason (Intervention leader)

Mrs Ormston (Attendance and punctuality)

Mrs Whitehead (Principal and DSL)

Early Help

Here at Cramlington Village Primary School, we aim to provide Early Help Services, which may be delivered to parents, children or whole families, with the main focus being to improve outcomes for children. 

Early help can offer children the support needed to reach their full potential. It can improve the quality of a child’s home and family life, enable them to perform better at school and support their mental health (EIF – 2018)

Through targeted interventions we aim to:

1. Work with families by taking time to fully appreciate their needs and how to provide or signpost to appropriate support.
2. Aim to work with families in preventing problems before they occurs or when a problem first arises and offer flexible, responsive supportive when and where required.
3. We will always involve the family in all Early Help strategies, and most will only be put in place with their permission. The school will aim to work with families in a supportive, non-judgemental way so that trust is built up and the best possible outcomes achieved. 

We know our work in early help is successful if it delivers these outcomes.

If you would like to speak to a member of staff about early help or want to enquire about additional ways we can provide support, please arrange to speak to the SENDco at info@villageprimary.org  Further information on a range of services provided by Northumberland County Council is available here