The groups are intended to be run with up to six children so that there is ample opportunity for children to be heard and involved in the discussion and activities. The groups aim to help children feel a sense of belonging and to strengthen or find new friendships. Having a small group can really enable this to happen.
It is also important to ensure that the pastoral staff member running the group is able to give time to each child and has space to review and notice how each child is responding, so it’s important to keep the group to a manageable size. Each of the emotion theme resource packs includes enough additional resources such as the sock puppets and wellbeing journals for six children, with an extra sock puppet for the facilitating adult. The resources can be repeatedly re-used to help more groups of children. You can also purchase additional bundles from just £1.30 per child.
There may be incidences where an individual child may have 1-1 intervention and this may be important for a range of reasons and can be decided by the pastoral staff member and SENCO.
