The Wellbeing Hub

"Pupil well-being and safety is of paramount importance at HSLC and we have dedicated non-teaching Pastoral and Student Support staff members in place to achieve this objective. Our continued aim is to protect and promote the welfare, safety and healthy development of all pupils by fostering an honest, open, caring and supportive community.

HSLC recognise the importance for all members of our school community to feel valued, welcomed, and have the support to ensure positive emotional wellbeing. At the heart of everything we do, we will continue to strive to be useful and kind, whilst encouraging creativity, resilience and aspiration, ensuring we can all be the very best that we can be"

BIG RED BUTTON

Support For Young People

Support For Adults

Menopause Champion

LGBTQ Champion

Domestic Abuse

Five pillars and mission statement

MEET THE TEAM

Emotional Health and Wellbeing Policy

Support For Young People

Mental Health

Advice & Guidance

School Based Support

Support For Adults

Mental Health

Advice & Guidance

School Based Support

Menopause Champion

LGBTQ Champion

Five Pillars And Mission Statement

1 CONNECTING WITH OTHERS

Pupils

At it’s very heart, HSLC is a community school. Our school ethos is underpinned by celebrating and rewarding success, ensuring all pupils recognise that being useful, kind, and the very best they can be, creates a climate where all members of the community feel valued and supported.

Staff/Governors/Volunteers

At HSLC, we recognise that team work is essential to our success! We strive to ensure everyone who makes a contribution to the school feels valued and supported, through a full and thorough understanding of adult’s respective roles, and the challenges and rewards each role can bring. HSLC has in place regular opportunities to share the success of individuals, as well as the school as a whole.

Parents/Carers

Parents and carers are pivotal to our school community, and we rely heavily on their contribution to school life. HSLC ensure staff are as accessible as possible, enabling all parents to share their views, concerns and feedback through varied forms of communication, including ‘out of hours’ and virtual meetings. HSLC ensure mechanisms are in place to make parents and carers aware of the achievements of their child and the school as a whole, and the unique role they have to make our school special.

2 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Pupils

At HSLC, we pride ourselves on having a wide and varied extra-curricular offer, including a host of physical activities for all abilities. Our Twilight bus service enables all pupils to access this offer, ensuring clubs are as accessible as possible to all

Staff/Governors/Volunteers

Staff, volunteers and governors are encouraged to participate in a programme of activities including after school football and running clubs. Staff embarking on new challenges are encouraged and supported by the school community and achievements celebrated.

Parents/Carers

HSLC host a programme of popular community events at the school, including sporting events, clubs and activities. We are proud of our facilities and strive to ensure that they are accessible to the whole community whenever possible.

3 TAKE NOTICE

Pupils

HSLC are strongly committed to ensuring our pupils are able to share concerns and requests for support quickly and effectively. The ‘Big Red Button’ is well publicised throughout the school, with pupils being supported by an extensive Inclusion Team, including non-teaching colleagues, ensuring support is available at all times. Pupils aware of pathways to emotional support through a team of practitioners, including the School Nurse, and the ‘Wellbeing Hub’ on the HSLC website ensures effective signposting to support.

Staff/Governors/Volunteers

Positive emotional wellbeing for all staff/volunteers and governors is a priority for HSLC, and as well as in house support through established peer support, HR and a dedicated Staff Governor, HSLC access support through specialist emotional wellbeing practitioners, striving towards ensuring the team at HSLC feel understood, supported and valued. HSLC have a Menopause Champion who holds ‘open to all’ support sessions and regular staff wellbeing surveys are completed to ensure the leadership team at HSLC are doing everything they can to make sure HSLC is a positive work environment for all. Staff celebrate success and recognise their strengths and contribution to school life

Parents/Carers

Parents and carers are encouraged to share any worries or concerns they may have with the team at HSLC, ensuring the school is accessible and parents feel encouraged and supported at all times. HSLC have a number of targeted Inclusion Practitioners who aim to understand families journeys and work in a non-judgemental/solution focussed way. Our aim is to continually reassure parent/carers of our continued commitment to put the emotional wellbeing of pupils and their families are the forefront of our work. This commitment will be supported by the development of working group of staff/parents to ensure parental voice is implicit in development of school process/policy, as well as the new Wellbeing Hub on the school website, with quick and up to date signposting to support for wellbeing

4 LEARN NEW THINGS

Pupils

HSLC strive to ensure the curriculum is broad, balanced and enriching, holding the strong believe that it is crucial that option choices are completely personalised to pupil’s strengths and passions whenever possible. Careers advice is accessible for all pupils from Year 7 onwards, aiming to aspire through pathways and learning opportunities. In addition to academic learning, there is also a focus on social, emotional learning through the Life Studies Curriculum, ensuring our learners are fully equipped for challenges and opportunities they will navigate post HSLC

Staff/Governors/Volunteers

An enriching and engaging programme of continued professional development is crucial in ensuring the team at HSLC feel positive and confident in their respective roles, with a leadership team that encourages all adults to be the very best they can be. The school nurtures a climate where we share skills, and creative thinking is strongly encouraged. The team feel confident to take risks, and work in a progressive way, keeping the positive outcomes of our learners at the forefront of everything we do.

Parents/Carers

Families are welcomed to join family learning events throughout their child’s school life, including Family Learning Days in Year 6 as part of our transition offer through to family coaching sessions for successful revision techniques in Year 11. As a school, we seek feedback from families to ensure we have a strong understanding of needs, and target our support accordingly, an example being a series of ESafety briefings for parents/carers. Families maintain a crucial role in supporting the learning for their child, and HSLC welcome partnership working with families, knowing that this is most likely to lead to the best outcomes for all learners.

5 SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY LIFE

Pupils

HSLC takes pride in being at the heart of the Hornsea community, and welcomes opportunities to showcase the strengths of our pupils at all times. Pupils are encouraged to consider ways that they can make a positive contribution to the community, and this is reinforced through whole school activities to support the town and the wider community.

Staff/Governors/Volunteers

The team at HSLC are committed to working with the community as a whole, and take pride in the role HSLC have in our town. As well as representing the school in community groups, the team welcome opportunities to show compassion and care for members of our community through a series of charitable events which prove a staple in the school calendar. We encourage community members to come into the school to share skills and experiences, ensuring pupils and staff at the school have a strong, holistic understanding of the strengths that lie within Hornsea and the surrounding areas.

Parents/Carers

Members of the community are encouraged to play a role in school life, whether attending one of our annual drama productions or attending one of our many sporting fixtures. Our Aspirational Dinners provide an opportunity for key business partners to celebrate the success of our pupils and our community is crucial in providing work experience opportunities for our Year 10 pupils, giving them their first experience of working within our community.