Schools work
Schools do such as vital job, and Winchester Baptist Church wants to support them as best as we can, whether this is through involvement in collective worship and RE lessons or through the Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) work done by Eli Stewart, our Children’s worker.
Kingdom RE
Religious Education is an important part of the Primary School curriculum. In Hampshire this is taught using the Living Difference III syllabus, which seeks to introduce children and young people to what looking at the world with a religious perspective can mean for leading their lives individually and collectively.
Eli Stewart, our Children’s and Families worker, is currently the Baptist representative for Hampshire’s Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE), which supports the effective provision of RE and collective worship in schools. Eli can help schools with the overall planning of their RE curriculum, and with planning and delivering units (such as “The Nativity Story”, “Noah”, “Angels”, “Jesus the Lawbreaker” and “The Christian Story”) that work with the Living Difference III syllabus.
ELSA Support
Life is not always easy for children and sometimes they need a little bit of extra emotional support in order to learn better and be happier at school. The ELSA programme is an initiative designed by Educational Psychologists to build the capacity of schools to support the social emotional and mental health needs of their pupils from within their own resources. Unfortunately, due to current circumstances schools are not always in the position to have their own Emotional Learning Support Assistants.
Eli Stewart our Children’s and Families Worker has trained and is registered as an ESLA with Hampshire Local Authority. She is available free of charge to provide individual and group ELSA sessions for local schools, including help with self-esteem and friendship issues, loss and bereavement and anger management.