WELLBEING

At the very heart of Les Quennevais we place the emotional wellbeing, safety and welfare of our students before any other consideration. At the core is our year system led by a Head of Year and supported by the Head of Guidance and a Form Tutor who has daily interaction with your child.

We continue to develop the support available for all our students which includes our School Counsellor, Lynsey Mallinson. This is a confidential service which students can self-refer to, providing one to one counselling along with themed work with small groups.

In addition we run a number of groups including Bounce Forward, ELSA & Deciders courses which provide targeted interventions mainly for Key Stage 3 students. These are also available for older students on a “needs basis”.

We work closely with a range of outside agencies including The Jersey Youth Service, MIND Jersey and SEMHIT (The Social & Emotional Intensive Support Team). Our Educational Welfare Officer Mandy Berner also works with individual students and their families and sign posts them as appropriate to external agencies.

All students have a weekly PSHE lesson where we pride ourselves in preparing students for the pressures that modern life places on our young people. We focus on the physical and mental health and wellbeing including exam pressures and anxiety. Our schemes of learning are always changing, and we aim to tackle the most pressing issues affecting our students in a preventative and positive manner.

We also have a “Befriending Anxiety” group which is run by the Psychology & Wellbeing Service. The aim is to help build an understanding of anxiety and ways to approach this. In addition our students have access to Kooth which is an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people, accessible through their mobile, tablet and desktop and which is free at the point of use.