At Seascape Primary School, we prioritise not only academic excellence for every child, but also place a significant emphasis on supporitng children’s mental health and wellbeing so that they are able to achieve their best outcomes.
School is fortunate to have on-site mental health support via Place2 Be.
Every day, children and young people across the UK struggle with their mental health.
We are committed to helping children and young people with their mental health, and the need for our services grows daily. 1 in 5 children and young people experience mental health difficulties. Half of all mental health problems are established by age 14.
Our approach to children’s and young people’s mental health is to intervene early to prevent life-long mental health issues. We do this by:
- providing support early, spotting mental health problems before they develop and helping children and young people cope with challenges throughout their lives
- using an effective therapeutic approach backed by research that combines several ways of working
- offering a range of mental health support services, including advice and support for families and school staff, to build resilience and raise awareness of mental health across the whole school community.
Providing support early
Place2Be is a pioneer in early intervention. We help schools understand and identify mental health problems, enable children and young people to focus on learning and give them tools to cope with challenges throughout their lives
Our therapeutic approach
Our support allows children and young people to express themselves through talking, creative work and play. Our mental health professionals use an integrative therapeutic approach backed by research that brings together different strands of therapeutic thinking to support the development of each child and young person.
Our services offer advice and support for families and training and consultations for school staff. Our services help build resilience and raise awareness of good mental health across the whole school community.
The services we offer include:
- one-to-one counselling for pupils who are struggling
- short appointments to talk about worries, booked by pupils
- group work about friendship, self-esteem and other issues
- training for school leaders and staff to make schools more mentally healthy
- consultations for school staff about behaviour and wellbeing
- advice and support for parents to help them look after their child
- group programmes using art and discussion to build pupils’ self-esteem.
Place2Be impact at Seascape Primary School in 2024/2025 academic year:
Place2Be practitioners continue to be very busy in Seascape Primary School and continue to have a huge impact supporting children across schol, integrating into the school and being involved in all school activities and events.
Place2Be has received a lot of positive feedback from children, teachers and parents which shows the amazing impact Place2Be is having on children’s mental health within school and we look forward to supporting children, teachers and parents in the coming school year.
50 children ended one to one intervention this year.
Place2Be have held 478 one to one sessions this year.
Place2Be received invaluable feedback from children, parents and teachers such as “Place2Be helps me to understand how I am feeling” and a parent confirming “Place2Be has been really useful for my child who really needed
emotional support”.
One child confirmed, “Place2Be is the Place2Be, Place2Be is fun, it helped me with my feelings”
“ I feel that my anger is better, I’ve not been as angry”
Another child said, “Place2Be was good, I enjoyed the basketball and playing catch with Denise”. “I enjoyed having a place I could just be myself without the stress of school”.
CYP also confirmed “I know I can talk to people now”.
Teachers said Place2Be helped 90% of children and reported that 76% of children had improved mental health.
One teacher confirmed, “He is calmer ad happier when he comes back into class”.
Parents believed that 28 of 37 children / young people were better after coming to Place2Be and showed a clinical improvement.
One parent said, “I feel that CYP is really up and down but Place2Be is helping her”
Another parent said, ” Place2Be has helped, CYP is not getting as upset and it has definitely helped with behaviour at home as it can be difficult as he can get angry through frustration and feeling overwhelmed”.
Place2Be have delivered 44 sessions of Parent Partnership to parents throughout the year.
Place2Talk has continued to be extremely popular with 275 sessions being this school year.