Community and Schools Work
The schools inclusion work has really begun to flourish in recent months,
building on the excellent work started a few years ago.
It’s emphasis has moved from emergency provision with children who are struggling to cope in mainstream education to a clear and deliberate strategy of planned supportive intervention work.
At Wetherby High School we provide extra support to help young people achieve and be as successful as they can be. Some of the support we give focuses on raising self esteem, anger management, promoting good relationships with staff and helping the students with ways to cope in school. Other topics include conflict resolution, showing respect, being the best you can be, staying in the boundaries as well as giving the students emotional support and ways to process any difficulties that they might be facing.
Our passion is to help the young person to realise their own potential and know that they can achieve anything if they put their mind to it. We want the pupils to believe in themselves and know that they are important and that they belong. As when these things are true they are more likely to achieve and experience success. Our dream for the young people that we work with is that they are transformed to be confident and successful young people.
 
Sometimes pupils need some time out from mainstream education and we offer them an alternative place to study and work where they can feel a sense of belonging and achievement as well as completing the necessary academic work.
All of the pupils are referred from the school and we work in close partnership with them to deliver the best support possible to the students. This partnership has recently been observed by Ofsted and was shown to be a real success.
As this work continues to grow and flourish other schools have begun to look at the work and model we are discovering. Out of this experience have come connections with the wider school communities (some 18 primaries served through our Family of Schools outreach worker) and also connexions to the local children’s centre with our staff interchanging between sites and roles.
This wrap round provision is enabling the church to not only meet its vision of being a family church but also of serving the needs of the community.
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