Teachers are already overburdened in what they are expected to do. Responding to the needs of children with significant mental health difficulties adds to the challenges faced.
All of our therapists are experienced and appropriately qualified counsellors or psychotherapists. Our child therapists have received specialist training and use creative arts such as sand trays, clay, paints and puppets, as well as play, to engage and help children to explore and talk about their feelings.
We endeavour to be flexible and can tailor our service to meet your needs. Typically, our therapists work in schools one day a week throughout the academic year. This means you have a specialist consultant and child mental health expert in your school’s professional team all year round contributing to your school community. Each child’s improvement in emotional well-being, mental health and educational attainment (including attendance) is tracked using outcome-based measures.
Data shows that children who access counselling are happier, less anxious and feel more confident. They concentrate better in class which enhances their ability to learn, improving their attendance and educational attainment.
The art-based sessions that are delivered, enable children to find a supported way to come to terms with and manage the traumas and attachment difficulties that they have faced in their lives. This equips the children to be able to better manage in a mainstream classroom environment, and therefore engage meaningfully with opportunities to learn alongside their peers. We are able to see that those children prior to the intervention that were making little or no progress, are now making steps towards closing learning gaps. Significantly for some of those children, behaviours can become difficult for them to manage in an appropriate way. What we have seen is those children that have, and are being, so successfully supported by BOUNCE! are much less likely to experience a Fixed Term Exclusion. We are so impressed by the way BOUNCE! have worked with school to make successes of seemingly desperate situations, that we are committed to continuing our work with them.
How we work with schools
We work with the team around the child to best support and understand each child’s individual needs. Our expert therapists will suggest strategies to try and think with school staff, parents/carers and other professionals working with the child to support the child in building strong attachments, enhance their ability to learn, communicate and feel happier.
We can also provide training, consultation regarding any child in the school and reflective practice support/supervision for school staff. Reflective practice support can be individual or group work and normally takes place once every half-term.
Our services are all offered at a subsidised rate. If you would like to find out more email admin@bouncebrighterfutures.co.uk
We are currently offering free group support for children who are likely to struggle with transition from primary to secondary school. For further details contact admin@bouncebrighterfutures.co.uk