At Chilvers Coton Infant School, we not only support children that attend our school, but also their parents and families too.

We may be able to offer further support for your child and family via Early Help or outside agencies such as Connect 4 Health (school nursing team), RISE, and Family Information Service. We can offer support with Benefits, housing and signpost you to other services and support that you may require.

Parents are free to contact us and we will endeavour to seek support for you either within school or signpost you to other professionals. 

If you wish to have an informal chat to discuss any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our Learning Mentor Mrs Williams - williams.c1@welearn365.com or our Family Support Worker – Mrs Kapadia kapadia.s@welearn365.com

You can also contact us on 02476 387001 

What is a Learning Mentor?

The Learning Mentor role at Chilvers Coton Community School and Nursery is multi-functional and designed to meet the wide and varied needs of children and families beyond the curriculum. Part of the role is to support the needs of the children experiencing difficulties, which are stopping them learning as effectively as they could both inside and outside of school.  These can be short term or ongoing. By working together with children and families we help to break down the barriers to their learning and enable children to learn and make good progress.

What is a Barrier?

A barrier is any factor that prevents a child from being in a suitable emotional or physical state to engage actively in their learning.  Some examples of these are:

• Low Self Esteem
• Lack of Self Confidence
• Friendship Difficulties
• Attendance
• Family Difficulties/changes
• Bereavement
• Low attendance/punctuality

What do we do?

We support the children to develop strategies and skills to enable them to make positive choices and enhance their learning.  We aim to provide non-judgemental support for all the children and families in our care.  We are a ‘first stop’ contact for children and families who are asking for help, friendly people who will listen and 'safe and well practitioners' who can monitor children’s pastoral needs.

How do we help?

We provide 1:1 sessions, group sessions, support during breaks and lunchtimes, and can also work in class. We will work with lots of different children for different reasons, and our work will vary depending on children’s individual needs.
 

We can help by:

• Raising self-esteem.
• Increasing confidence.
• Listening to any worries.
• Increasing motivation.
• Developing social skills.

Support Services

For further support and advice, please also see the helpful links on our SEND information page: