Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA)

Ms Roberts is our trained ELSA in school and is also our Children's Mental Health Champion. ELSAs are specialists with a wealth of experience of working with children and young people. 

ELSAs are warm, kind and caring people who want to make children and young people feel happy in school and to reach their potential socially, emotionally and academically. They understand the barriers to learning that some children and young people might have and can help them with this.

They can support children and young people’s emotional development and help them cope with life’s challenges. ELSAs will also help children and young people to find solutions to problems they might have.

An ELSA is not there to fix problems but to help them find their own solutions and offer that important support to a child or young person. Relationships are key to helping children and young people to feel safe and nurtured. ELSA is about creating a reflective space for the child or young person.

Please view our leaflet downloadable below. There is also a wealth of resources available online. Find some useful ones on the ELSA Support Website. Simply click on the image below.