We are excited to be able to offer some sessions for Parents and Carers over the coming weeks. The first session will be delivered by Sam Edmonds, a Speech and Language Therapist who currently supports the school. This will focus on how speech and language skills impact on reading and writing and will also look at Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Mrs Ewart will then be offering a session with a Dyslexia focus looking at what this is, how children are supported in school, and how parents can help children at home. 

Finally, Mrs Thomas will be delivering the SPACE programme (Supporting Parents And Carers Emotionally) which focuses on brain development and how trauma can affect the way children manage their behaviour. This programme will have 6 sessions, and parents need to sign up for all 6 for it to be really successful. 

The dates and times of the sessions are listed below, please us this link to sign up for these sessions. 

We hope to see you there,

Mrs Ewart and Mrs Thomas

17/05/2023 9-9.45am – Speech and Language with Sam Edmonds

24/05/2023 – 9-9.45am  – Dyslexia with Mrs Ewart

SPACE with Mrs Thomas on the following dates from 9.00-10.15am

07/06/2023

14/06/2023

21/06/2023

28/06/2023

05/07/2023

A Headstart Kernow initiative:

Building on current trauma informed training and practice already being delivered across the county SPACE provides an accessible and flexible toolkit of high-quality resources to support families. The programme aims for parents and carers to: gain an understanding of the impact of early life experiences on themselves as parents and on their children, learn to see behaviour as a form of communication, and look at the causes and triggers of behaviours and develop strategies for building resilience in themselves and their children.

SPACE is a relationship-based delivery model which actively advocates and promotes working in partnership alongside parents. Supporting parents and carers to recognise the impact of adult behaviours on children, and how they can develop the protective behaviours to support both themselves and their children. Core to the programme is enabling each participant to be freed of the myth that they are defined by their experiences, but rather there is always capacity for change.

A universal programme intended for all parents, SPACE supports in the building of knowledge and learning that promotes a good understanding of both children’s and adult’s emotional health, wellbeing and behaviour and how life experiences can influence this. With particular emphasis on the maintenance of positive emotional, mental health and wellbeing for the whole family, SPACE also providing parents and carers with take away strategies to implement at home.

The programme offers practical activities and insights into the neuroscience behind trauma, attachment theories, toxic stress responses and why protective factors are important.

Addressing topics such as:

• Biological Stress responses
• Impact of ACEs and trauma
• Attachment theories and nurturing parents
• Understanding behaviour and resilience
• Protective behaviours
• Child development milestones
• Managing difficult emotions
• Importance of self-care and nurturing children
• Healthy relationships