You can find useful SEMH resources and full details of this service by visiting our Services to Schools page.
The Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) service is available to schools in Newcastle. We are a team of professionals supporting students and teachers manage SEMH needs. Our aim is to:
- support whole school improvement in provision for SEMH through intentional promotion of social and emotional competence
- provide support and expertise around individual children through a comprehensive and systematic Assess, Plan, Do, Review process
- improve coping and resilience – we all have SEMH needs
- reduce need and therefore pressure on specialist SEND Services
- support schools to successfully prepare children for the next stage in their education
Helpful resources and further information
SEMH Service - Service to Schools Page
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Schools interested in accessing the SEMH service can email sarah.woodburn@newcastle.gov.uk.
Outcomes for children
We want our SEMH service to help children to:
- describe feeling connected to themselves, to others and to the natural world.
- experience success at school, know how to make age/stage appropriate decisions and have good relationships. (Competent, Autonomous, Related)
- understand their strengths and needs, use a range of strategies to meet their needs and ask for help
- feel confident they can change by taking small steps and can adapt to small and big changes successfully.
- have and use the vocabulary they need to express their thoughts, ideas and feelings in a range of ways.
- interact confidently, appropriately and flexibly with different people and in different situations.
Primary School Support from the SEMH service
The SEMH service offer the following:
- Comprehensive support to implement Assess, Plan, Do Review cycle for individuals
- Point of contact and regular check ins
- Bespoke work to support individuals
- Signposting
- Staff training and support
- Consultations and observations
- SEMH project work
- Solution oriented practice
- Transition support
- EBSNA support
Secondary School Support from the SEMH service
The SEMH service offer the following:
- Point of contact and regular check ins
- Staff training and support
- SEMH project work
- Solution oriented consultation
- Comprehensive support for staff to implement Assess, Plan, Do Review cycle for individuals
- Consultations and observations
- Bespoke work to support individuals where the above has been exhausted
- Signposting
- Transition support
- EBSNA support
The Noticing Nature Project
The SEMH Noticing Nature project is one of the projects we offer. It is designed to support children experiencing tension, difficulty engaging in learning or Emotional Based School Non-Attendance.
The aims of the project are:
- to develop children’s social and emotional wellbeing by spending time outdoors and in nature
- to promote children’s connections with themselves, others and the natural world
- to allow the children to interact confidently, appropriately and flexibly in different situations
- to experience success and have good relationships
- to support children to understand their strengths and needs, use a range of strategies to meet their needs and ask for help
For activity ideas and further information about this project, useful for schools and parents, check out our Noticing Nature Padlet and SEMH service - Services to Schools page.