Support for Wellbeing

In Pontllanfraith a number of our Teaching Assistants are trained as Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSAs). They have been trained by Educational Psychologists to deliver wellbeing support programmes to children and attend on-going supervision with the Educational  Psychology team.

Our ELSAs training has covered: 

• emotional literacy including building resilience and self-esteem

• managing emotions including anger and anxiety

• social and friendship skills

• loss, bereavement and family break up

As well as skills development in:

• social and therapeutic stories

• motivational interviewing

• active listening, conversation skills

They can deliver a block of 8 sessions to individuals or groups. 

At the end of the 8 sessions they will evaluate the progress the child has made. Sometimes we may provide additional sessions.