Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA)
Becket Primary School has a strong inclusive ethos as demonstrated by achievement of the Inclusion Quality Mark Award (2014-2017, 2017-2020 and 2023-2026) which recognized our practices and approach.
As part of our inclusive approach Becket Primary School offers Emotional Literacy Support with our trained team: Mrs Walker, Miss Perry, Mrs Leafe and Mrs Lambert. Each member of the team has supervision throughout the year with an Educational Psychologist.
ELSA is a school-based intervention to help children understand their emotions and learn different ways to express their feelings. It is known that children learn best when they are happy, and their emotional needs are being met. ELSA sessions are not about teaching or telling children what to do. It’s about building respectful and trusting relationships, giving them greater self-awareness and helping them reach their own solutions and coping strategies.
ELSA is offered to children who may be struggling at school or if they require some social skills. These can include: self–esteem, mild anxiety, friendship issues, anger management or understanding their emotions. These may be due to family situations like a breakup, death of a close family member or pet, illness within their family/them. It can also be from traumas that happened in their past that have not been addressed therefore the child has come to their own conclusion.
