How to raise a complaint about SEND can be found in Section 6 of the policy above. For this part it runs in conjunction with the Complaints Policy which can be found in the Policy section under the 'Key Information' tab on this website. 

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Trauma Perceptive Practice

As a school, St John's believes in the importance of relationships, ensuring children and young people feel valued, safe and secure, providing a sense of connection with a member of staff and a belonging to the whole school community. At St John's Primary School we have started our journey to become a Trauma Perceptive Practice (TPP) school. This is an Essex approach to understanding behaviour and supporting emotional wellbeing.

Whilst we are at the start of training our staff in the Essex TPP approach, the following fundamental values and teachings of TPP are reflected throughout our policies and everyday practice as a Christian school:

• Compassion and Kindness
• Hope
• Connection and Belonging

Zones of Regulation

At St John's Primary School we have adopted The Zones of Regulation Curriculum as a whole school approach to developing our awareness of emotions and our emotional regulation skills.

This approach was designed by Leah Kuypers, licensed occupational therapist, to help children gain skills in the area of self-regulation.  Self-regulation can go by many names, such as self-control, self-management and impulse control.  It is defined as the best state of alertness of both the body and emotions for the specific situation.  For example, when a student plays on the playground or in a competitive game, it is beneficial to have a high state of alertness.  However, the same state would not be appropriate in the library.  The curriculum is designed to help children recognise when they are in different zones as well as learn how to use strategies to change or stay in the zone they are in.  In addition to addressing self-regulation, the students will gain an increased vocabulary of emotional terms, skills in reading other people's facial expressions, perspective about how others see and react to their behaviour, insight into events that trigger their behaviour, calming and alerting strategies and problem solving skills.

It is important to note that everyone experiences all of the zones - the Red and Yellow zones are not the "bad" or "naughty" zones.  All the zones are expected at one time or another.

In our Reception class we introduce the Zones of Regulation through Anna Llenas' book titled 'The Colour Monster'.