At Iver Heath Junior School, we value pastoral care extremely highly.

Our dedicated team always place the well-being of children at the forefront of their minds when supporting them. 

Every member of staff works with pupils within their year group to support and develop inter-personal skills including social skills, self-confidence and ways to manage anxiety and to help them identify their own state of well-being. In this way, children develop much better understanding of their own well-being and how to manage it but also staff can offer support where required throughout the day. 

Being a small school, it is easy for the whole-school community to make valued relationships. It also affords us the opportunity to be available for our pupils when they need us. Our children know that, although it may not be immediately, they may speak with which ever member of staff that they feel most comfortable speaking with if they need to share. Both staff and children appreciate the openness with which we are able to support each other. 

After completing a year long nationally run anti-bullying project with Equally Safe, we have in place Agents for Change. These children attended a specially designed training day along with several other schools to learn about anti-bullying and how to create a positive environment around behaviour. As they are pupils of the school, they know more about life on the playground than the adults, so were tasked with creating a system to help children feel safe and report concerns. They implemented the Tell Me Box, which all children have access to use if they need it. 

If you have any questions about how we support pastoral care, please speak to a member of the team. 

The Bucks Family Information Service website also offers lots of advice and helpful links for families. Their website can be found here: Bucks Family Information Service

If you would like further advice the following can offer help:

Childline:            https://www.childline.org.uk/       phone: 0800 1111