Emotional Health & Wellbeing
A message from Ferre Laevers
“If children’s well-being and involvement increase you know that you are on the right track. You know that you enhance their self confidence and help them become stronger in life. You feed their curiosity and urge to explore. You help them develop their capabilities and talents. After all this is this is the ‘mission’
We at Trench Road Nursery school recognise the need for fostering strong emotional health and wellbeing. Each classroom has a ‘feelings pod’ where children are encouraged to identify their feelings using emotion puppets/feeling fans and emotion stories. The children are provided with a take home wellbeing pack to explore with their family. We also provide a 6 weekly 'relax kids' sessions with a professional instructor for children to learn self-regulation techniques, breathing exercises and meditation skills
We are delighted to be implementing the PATHS programme in collaboration with our community partner Barnardos. The programme helps children to identify, name and understand their emotions through the use of puppets and stories.