Clanfield CE SEMH
Special Educational Needs
At Clanfield CE School we understand that children have varied life experiences and needs. We have implemented a range of interventions to enable our children to be successful in life.
The Mulberry Bush Emotional and Social Curriculum
The Mulberry Bush curriculum is for children to be successful with their social and emotional development. This is delivered by our SEN TA in school 5 times a week to small groups of children. The children are assessed using the SEA scale. From the assessment, the leader identifies the statements where child(ren) have scored outside of the expected range. Then they use a set place to identify which strands to start working on. Children start every session using the Blob tree to check in with each others' feelings.
The Mulberry Bush Emotional and Social curriculum focusses learning on the five core competencies of successful emotional and social development:
- Self-awareness
- Self-management
- Social awareness
- Relationship skills
- Responsible decision making
More information can be found on their website here:
https://mulberrybush.org.uk/emotional-and-social-curriculum-for-schools/
Drawing and Talking Advanced/ Sand therapy
Drawing and Talking is a therapeutic intervention for children, young people and adults. It is designed as a short-term, time-limited, proactive intervention intended to complement, rather than replace, the work of specialist mental health services. This is delivered by our SEN Teaching Assistant to small groups of children on a one-to-one basis. An SDQ is carried out as a pre-assessment and children are identified from the results of this questionnaire.
More information can be found on their website here:
https://drawingandtalking.com/
https://drawingandtalking.com/
Peer Mentors
New to 2025 are our Peer Mentors. Every year children apply for this prestigious role and are interviewed by the headteacher and MHST.
Each lunchtime there are Peer Mentors on duty on the playgrounds. They are there to be a listening ear if needed. They also look out for children who might want someone to play with and organise and run games.
The peer mentors also act as mental health ambassadors in the school. They run assemblies and provide another way for other children to talk if something is worrying them.
Blob Tree
Each class is expected to check in with each child every morning. To do this we use the Blob Tree.
