Saint George has an allocated school nurse who attends up to once a week. Referrals are made from pastoral staff. The School Nursing service works in partnership with children, young people and their families to ensure that pupil’s health needs are supported within their school and their community.

Saint George is supported by an emotional health and well-being practitioner from No Limits one day each week. Students can access are referred for a series of one to one sessions by pastoral staff or the school nurse. Students can all access a ‘drop in clinic ‘during lunch time.

Saint George employs a registered mental health nurse one day each week. Students are referred by pastoral staff and supports early identifications of social emotional and mental health difficulties and with referrals to outside agencies.

These groups consist of pupils with a mixture of needs.  They can be poor readers, have low literacy skills, poor social skills or behavioral issues.  The groups generally work more successfully when this mix is used – the pupils learning from each other and learn the need to be tolerant of each other’s needs.

Catch Up Literacy Reading Programme. A specialist one to one support to improve all aspects of the reading process addressing, comprehension, sight and word knowledge, phonics and spellings.

Vocabulary Enrichment Intervention Programme.  A specialist teaching programme which enhances student word learning skills and promotes independent learning.  During this schema of work students are exposed to figurative language, idiomatic understanding and different linguistic interpretations.  Topic themes are taken from the education curriculum and daily life of a student.  It can be delivered on to one or in small groups.

Guided Reading.  A successful intervention in which small groups of students, alongside a trained teaching assistant, read a chosen text together.  Taking it in turns to read aloud to support building confidence and analysing the text in verbal dialogue.

Peer Reading. Working in pairs, an older student with strong fluency and comprehension skills tutors a younger student (the tutee) in order to scaffold these skills.  They read aloud to each other with the tutor student assisting in word decoding and comprehension. This intervention has a twofold positive affect; improved attitude to reading for pleasure as well as increased confidence and enjoyment and promotes interpersonal skills as well as improved speaking and listening

Handwriting.  Handwriting support is offered to pupils who have poor motor skills or medical conditions that affect their handwriting.  The aim of this intervention is to help pupils with their grip, alongside strengthening their hands which ultimately improves the quality of presentation. The use of a different style pen and practice resources for home completion are monitored for progress evidence.