At Hadleigh Community Primary School, we are fully committed to promoting and supporting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of our pupils, staff and wider school community. We recognise that positive mental health is essential for effective learning, professional development and long-term wellbeing.

We aim to foster an inclusive and nurturing school culture where mental health and emotional wellbeing are understood, supported and discussed openly. We recognise that everyone should feel safe to express their feelings and seek help when needed. Therefore, we are committed to taking a positive approach through early identification of concerns and timely and effective intervention and support strategies. As well as, embedding a whole-school ethos that values and nurtures emotional resilience and psychological safety for all.

Our Ethos

Our aim is to promote and maintain the emotional wellbeing and mental health of pupils, staff, and the school community.

Aims:

• Develop a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing that is embedded into our ethos, teaching, and relationships.
• Provide access to support services, including the Suffolk Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
• Ensure pupils and staff feel safe, supported and valued.

SUPPORT FOR PUPILS

We offer a range of proactive, responsive and specialist support to meet pupils’ emotional and mental health needs:

• • Zones of Regulation: A shared, school-wide emotional regulation framework to support self-awareness and to help pupils manage their emotions.
    
  • ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant): Provides one-to-one and group interventions for children who are experiencing emotional difficulties such as anxiety, low self-esteem, bereavement and friendship issues.
    
  • Suffolk Mental Health Support Team (MHST): Delivers early intervention, mental health support, including cognitive behavioural work, group programmes, parent support and staff consultation.
    

    Mental Health Support Teams in schools – Suffolk SEND Local Offer

• Pastoral Support Systems: Ensures every pupil has access to a trusted adult and safe space where they can receive emotional support when needed.
• Curriculum and Assemblies: Mental health education is integrated into our PSHE curriculum and assemblies, promoting empathy, resilience and emotional literacy.
• Suffolk Nursing Service:
  
  

  School Nursing Service – Suffolk County Council

  Support for Parents

  Support for parents and carers to keep children safe online – GOV.UK

  Parent/Carer mental health workshops | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS

  Childhood neurodivergence workshops | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS

  Children and young people’s mental health services – NHS

  Parenting and mental health – Mind