Parent and Family Support

In order to support your children as best we can, we are committed to working with you and your family. We work closely with many different organisations, so if we don’t have the expertise ourselves we usually know where to find it and can signpost you to appropriate support.

If we think your child may need extra support we will discuss this with you. If you think you or your child needs help or advice of any kind, please let us know. We have a team of people who work with us at school to support our families and children. Some are at school every day, but some only occasionally. There are many parenting courses run across Islington and we can provide you with information of these. Leaflets advertising these and other useful information for families can be found in the main Reception area. Sometimes we invite other professionals and organisations to run coffee mornings on particular topics or to introduce their services to parents.

We run frequent parent workshops in school on a range of topics that will help you to learn more about how your children learn and how you can help them at home. We also give information to children and parents on how to keep healthy and safe including areas such as: E-safety, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, gang membership, healthy eating and good dental health. Workshops are advertised in the school newsletter, on the school website and through the school’s text messaging service.

Role	What they do	Name
Inclusion Leader	Organises the team and can work with individual children, families and groups who need pastoral care	Monica Dickman
Attendance Officer	Monitors children’s attendance and punctuality and supports families with attendance issues	Anisa Lucey
Pastoral Support Officer	Helps children who need additional support with emotional, social or behavioural needs in school and works with small groups and individual children.	Anisa Lucey


Clinical Psychologist/Family Therapy CAMHS	Helps children with emotional/behavioural difficulties	Will Roberts
Bright Start Early Childhood Coordinator	Co-ordinates Bright Start Services in South Islington	Ruth Cookson
Behaviour support outreach New River College	Supports children with behaviour difficulties/staff with behaviour management	Tim Webb
The Bridge Outreach Team	Supports children with Autism and provides advice for staff and parents	Sarah Tyce
Samuel Rhodes School Outreach Team	Supports children with moderate learning difficulties or specific literacy difficulties including dyslexia and provides advice for staff/ parents	Jane Palmer
Family Health Advisor (Under 5’s)	Provides Integrated Health and Education Reviews for 2 year olds Advice on health issues and developmental issues for under 5’s	Kathy Defendi Karen Gasson
School Health Advisor	Helps with health issues
Educational Psychologist	Helps children and with additional needs and consults with families and staff	Catherine Chamorro
Children’s Centre Link Speech and Language Therapist	Helps children with Speech and Language needs and advices staff	Not in post
Speech and Language Therapist (Reception – Y6)	Helps children with Speech and Language needs and advices staff
Centre 404	Voluntary Organisation that offers support and guidance to families of children with Special Educational Needs

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