SEL Programme

At Fortitude School we have developed a Social Emotional Learning Programme (SELP) that works to support and develop our young people’s social and emotional learning skills.

Our SEL programme focuses on five key social and emotional aspects of learning: 

• self-awareness
• managing feelings
• motivation
• empathy and
• social skills/intercations

Our bespoke social and emotional learning interventions work to support and develop our young people resilience, coping skills and fotutitude,  in order to help remove the barreiers to learning many of our young people face on a daily basuis.

These 1:1 sessions focus directly on social and emotional growth rather than academic or cognitive elements of learning

All of our pupils have access to the programme which is designed specifically to meet the individual needs of the pupils. Students will access daily/weekly  sessions with our SEL team where they will  engage in a range of fun, stimulating and engaging activities designed to build confidence, self-esteem,  resilience, and coping skills.

All of our young people have full access to our personalised in-house SEL programme.

At fortitude School we also work closely with a range of external professionals and outside agencies who work alongside staff and also one to one with our pupils.  They are professionals who work within the local authority or the NHS and have specialist understanding in particular areas.

The following outside agencies offer support to Fortitude School:

• Speech and Language Therapy Service(SALT)
• Educational Psychology Service (EPS)
• Early Intervention Service (EIS)
• Occupational Therapy (OT)
• The Looked After Children’s Service (TELAC)
• Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
• Counselling service
• Play therapy
• Family Support Workers
• School Nurse
• Social Workers and Social Care Assistants