Menu
Home Page

Useful Links

Useful Links during our School Closure

Safeguarding our children

Wellbeing Packs for Pupils, Parents and Carers

In the Educational Psychology Service, we are extremely aware of what a difficult and anxiety provoking time this is for everyone.  We are also aware of how much advice, guidance and misinformation we are all being bombarded with on a daily basis.  We have therefore decided to produce a series of wellbeing packs, that you can save and look through when best suits you.  Each pack has a particular focus with regards maintaining wellbeing in the current crisis.  
 
Pack One includes the best information we have found regarding talking to children of different ages and abilities about Covid 19, in order to alleviate their concerns.
Pack Two is information for parents, carers and professionals.
 
There will of course be some families for whom this information alone is not sufficient and we have therefore established an EPS support line that will be operational from Monday, information for which is attached and can again be shared with your staff to share with parents.

Free Educational resources for home learning

  • Dave the Dog is worried about Coronavirus A free book for children about coronavirus that aims to give information without fear. With everything that is going on at the moment; big changes to children’s routines and lots of stories on the news it can be a really scary time for children. This book aims to open up the conversation about coronavirus and some of the things they might be hearing about it and provide truthful information in a reassuring and child friendly manner.
  • Elevenses with David Walliams Every day at 11am, you can listen one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories, so sit down, take a break, and enjoy 20ish minutes of pure fun!
  • National Literacy Trust As a response to school closures, the National Literacy Trust have developed a comprehensive web portal for parents, to support you during this time. Over the next days, weeks and months they will be updating the site as often as possible with new and useful content for parents. Split up by age group, you will find ideas and guidance for simple activities that will engage your children at home, while also benefiting their reading, writing and language development.
  • Science demos from Techniquest New science demos daily at midday. Some will be ones that you can try at home, and others will be using materials that you can only find at Techniquest.
  • Twinkl - Home Education Pack This Free Home Education Pack is a great taster of everything that Twinkl has to offer across a variety of subjects including Maths, Science, Art and English.
  • Free Home Learning Packs TTS have put together free downlaodable work packs for parents to use with their children. Follow the link to download yours.

If you are a parent or carer, we hope you will find the web links below useful.

  • Action for Children Action for Children supports and speaks for the UK's most vulnerable and neglected children and young people.
Top

Cookies

Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.

Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.

Please make your choice!

Cookies

Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this. The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:

Website CMS

A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is used to prevent cross site request forgery.
An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have been dismissed.
An 'awsUploads' object is used to facilitate file uploads.

Matomo

We use Matomo cookies to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.

reCaptcha

Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this website.

Cookie notice

A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.

Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to enable them below: