Supporting Families
Our pastoral team at Central Lancaster High School know that the best outcomes for pupils are achieved when school and home work together sharing a consistent message with the young person.
At times, families and children can require additional support within and out of the classroom and we offer a range of interventions and services led by school as part of our early help offer through which an allocated member of staff will meet with you, discuss any barriers being faced and then make suggestions about support that we can offer.
Some of our internal early help offers are listed below:
General
- Equipment or uniform support & access to daily Uniform Hub
- Free breakfast club
- Homework club
- Weekly behaviour & attendance opportunities with HOY
- Careers one to one
- Attendance meeting to discuss barriers to your child’s attendance to school
- Pastoral meeting – meeting with House Tutor / Head of Year
- Peer mentoring
- School nurse drop in or referral
- Regular pastoral coffee morning for drop in advice with agencies
- Early Help Assessment to support families accessing additional support
Behaviour
- Behaviour monitoring cards or management plan
- Group sessions for targeted support from a Behaviour Mentor
- Behaviour mentor allocation for periods of short or longer term support
- Managed move
SEND
- Learning support plan
- Screening for unidentified need
- SEND clinic
SEMH
- Moving Mindsets – referral to our internal therapists in school, practitioners from Barnardo’s work in school weekly providing support to pupils who are experiencing mental health challenges
- School counsellor
- One to one with Student Support Officer
- Nurture provision
- Emotional Based School Avoidance (EBSA) pathway support
External Support
We can also refer/signpost pupils and families to a range of services. These services are ‘consent led’ and require consent and engagement from families to achieve success:
- ACE
- Barnardo’s
- CAMHS
- Cancer Care
- Child Action North West
- Child and Family Wellbeing Service where we can access specific support for; domestic abuse, Targeted Youth Support, Family Support Worker or Senior Practitioners for advice and guidance
- Children’s Social Care
- Kooth
- Lancashire MIND
- Lancashire Youth Challenge
- Morecambe Bay Food Bank / Egg Cup
- NEST (Young People’s Victim Support Service)
- Police / PCSO Intervention
- Prevent
- Safenet
- Shelter
- START
- The Uniform Project
- Triple P Parenting support
- YMCA
- Young Minds
- Youth Justice Team
- We Are With You
The Uniform Project
Parents who would benefit from support with the cost of school uniforms for their children attending Central Lancaster High School or any local primary school can self-refer to The Uniform Project here: https://morecambebay.foodbank.org.uk/uniform-project-2/ If you require help with this process do not hesitate to contact your child's Head of Year.
If you would like to donate any new or pre-loved CLHS or local school uniform to The Uniform Project you can leave items in our donations box in the school reception area.
