If you are worried about your child's behaviour at home or happiness at school, you may find the following information useful.

Our Pastoral Lead is Ms Elliott. 

To further enhance our pastoral support, we have two additional part-time members of staff:

A Pupil Wellbeing and Family Support Lead - Mrs Melanie Walters

A Pastoral Support Worker - Miss Sarah Haywood.

If you need to contact Ms Elliott, Mrs Walters or Miss Haywood at any time, please make an appointment at reception or call school on 01623 480440. Alternatively you can send a message to the school office on office@newlands.notts.sch.uk and

they will get back to you as soon as possible.

They are able to answer any questions you may have regarding your child’s Social, Emotional, Mental Health and pastoral needs. They can also find you information on support available and coordinate support from different services if required.

If you are worried or finding things difficult, they are here to listen and to help - our door is always open and the kettle is always on! 

If you are a Year 2 or Year 6 parent in particular, and are worried about transition between schools, please see the information on the Transition page of the school website. If you still have concerns, please contact us as soon as possible to discuss what support we can provide.

We are able to offer a wide range of support including :

Bereavement

Impact of divorce

Anger

Night time bed-wetting

Friendships

Attachment

Trauma

Attendance / Punctuality

Strategies to support children with a diagnosis or undergoing a diagnosis of ASD/ADHD to help them understand how this affects them but to also help them understand how to self manage.

Support groups for parents/carers of children with or going through the process of getting a diagnosis of ASD/ADHD.

If you are in need of support for any reason, please ask and we will do our best to help you. We support the whole family not just the children in our care.

Resources

We use a wide range of resources to support children including -

MOTIONAL (to identify the core reasons for behaviours)

ELSA

Social Stories

Books

Online clips and pictures

The whole school is involved in Every Amazing Breath / Take 5 to support calm breathing techniques. At break times our Sports Leaders, Play Leaders and Health Mentors are available to support children. 

Useful contacts include:

Healthy Families Team (including the School Nurse): 01623 791025

Schools and Families Specialist Services(SFSS): 0115 8546464

Ask Us Nottinghamshire (formerly the Parent Partnership Service): 0800 1217772

Sherwood Area Partnership supports Social Emotional Mental Health needs 

Many of our children transfer to either The Garibaldi School  or Samworth Church Academy for Year 7. Please see additional transition information on our Transition page as well as our Special Educational Needs page of our website.

MASH (Multi Agency safeguarding Hub) for safeguarding issues: 0300 500 8090

CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) can be contacted directly by parents using a simple online form, alternatively school can make a referral with you.