Pastoral Support
Pupils are supported through the allocation of a Personal Tutor/Key Worker.
This involves regular 1:1 meetings to review and record academic progress and attitudes toward behaviour and attendance. The school provide individual support and play a pivotal role in ensuring any barriers to learning are addressed so that pupils make the most of their time at Crookhey Hall School. They liaise closely with the Senior Leadership Team, Teachers and Home School Liaison Officer.
The school recognises that pastoral care is a joint responsibility and that the emotional difficulties experienced by many of our students means that they will often seek out a member of staff other than their designated key worker. There is an expectation that all staff accept this role and are ready to respond appropriately.
The school is embarking on a peer mentoring programme. The aim is to recognise and enhance the role of senior students in providing pastoral guidance to younger students and those with additional and challenging needs. The school is confident that, in time, it will be able to offer accreditation for those students who show an aptitude for peer mentoring. In the long term students who were the subject of such mentoring could, themselves, become mentors thus completing a positive circle of support.
Health and Therapy
The school is able to access input from a large health and therapy team. The team consists of a Consultant Educational Psychologist, Speech & Language Therapist and a school counsellor. These are available to young people that need these services to help remove barriers to learning and progress. The team works collaboratively with the staff at Crookhey Hall School to promote our pupils’ health and well-being
Nurture Provision
The Nurture provision within Crookhey Hall School provides additional support for students who have difficulty accessing the curriculum. Every pupil is assessed in terms of his speech, language and communication skills by a highly skilled practitioner who visits school on a regular basis to assess the progress of individual young people and to advise staff on planned intervention strategies where needed.
The Nurture team also utilises Precision Teaching to promote and accelerate reading, writing and communication. This allows staff to pinpoint specific learning difficulties and so put together an individual learning programme with the objective of enabling the student to fully access the curriculum.
In addition, the Nurture Team helps students to deal with their behavioural and emotional difficulties. A target system is in place across the school which allows us to monitor progress the students are making towards specific targets and means that intervention strategies can be more clearly targeted where necessary.
The Nurture Provision is central to the aims of the whole school and is constantly looking to expand. We hope to include an element of art therapy in the near future and, having become part of the National Nurture Network, we are able to tap into the resources and expertise of over 700 other nurture providers.
Speech and Language Provision
We appreciate that this is a difficult time. Once school staff, pupils and families have had some time to adjust to this unsettling situation, our school Speech and Language Therapist will be in touch to discuss and agree the type of remote input that meets your school’s requirements.
Beth Delvin, is our Speech & Language Therapist and works for the Outcomes First Group, attending Crookhey Hall School every Wednesday and Thursday.
Beth wanted to take the time to say a big hello and, advise that if you ever need to chat about your child’s speech and language needs in school, she is always happy to talk with you.
You may contact Beth at the school on 01524 792618 or, anytime via email: Bethany.Devlin@ofgl.co.uk
Beth looks forward to hearing from you!
Mindfulness & Well-Being
Here at Crookhey Hall School, we strive to ensure that our pupils, parents, carers and staff all have access to help and advice when it is sought, either for the children or themselves.
There is a wealth of knowledge out there, but finding the right help can sometimes be daunting. Therefore, let us help you by providing the information here.