Please see below the range of support and interventions available to enhance student wellbeing, which all young people have access to. Further steps for student referral is detailed at the bottom of this page.
ACE Project
spACE Schools Programme Overview 2025
Black Lives Matter
This guide aims to provide resources, advice, and tips to ensure that children are aware of racial inequality, racial hierarchies, and white privilege present in modern-day society, as well as share tools and knowledge in which to combat racism today.
CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
Skills to help make young people make good decisions, even when life feels really hard – think of it as a cheat code to a happier brain and a way to demystify DBT* (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy).
Deal With It – Learn Practical DBT Skills | CALM
Counselling
Message from Esther:
Hi, I’m Esther.
I have worked with young people in schools for over 12 years, starting out as a teacher before training as a counsellor. That background means I understand what school life can feel like from the inside, the pressures, the worries that quietly build up across a week and the moments when things just feel like too much.
I offer up to 12 1:1 sessions, giving you a space to be you, confidential, non-judgmental and at your own pace. Sessions are guided entirely by you, so we’ll talk about whatever you bring, whether that’s friendships, family, school, low mood, anxiety or something you can’t quite put into words yet. I can also work creatively, using things like art, writing or sand trays when talking feels too difficult.
I’m here to listen and to help you find your own way through whatever is showing up. If you’d like to come and talk to me, please speak to your Achievement Coordinator, who can refer you in.
I look forward to meeting you.
Esther
Youth Coaching
Blocks of sessions would typically be six sessions consisting of approximately one hour in 1:1.
Youth Coach can work with students on 1:1 basis for a block of 6 sessions, coaching students to aid their wellbeing, manage their mental health, support the balance between social life and academic studies.
Youth Coaching Coaching Overview
Creative Arts Therapy
Blocks of sessions would typically be 12 sessions consisting of approximately one hour in a group of approximately eight.
Group intervention to support decision making, self-regulation, expressive demonstration of self via Creative arts, dance, movement and psychotherapy.
Creative Arts Therapy Overview
Creative Youth Network
Enabling young people to reach their own potential
Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
Blocks of sessions would typically be six sessions consisting of approximately one hour in 1:1.
Part of the MHST (Mental Health Support Team) that are linked via OTR and the NHS. EMHP’s work within the MHST to find ways to aid the mental health of families and staff. This work comes in various formats including 1:1 sessions, group work, workshops and other methods. Our EMHP allocated to Fairfield is Disha Chavda.
Secondary School Guide to 1-1 Referrals for staff
EMHP Traffic light referral guidance
Kinship
Free training and events for Kinship carers
Kooth
Visit this online mental wellbeing community
NSPCC
Giving advice and support for young people who have been exposed to content promoting self harm, suicide and eating disorders.
Content promoting self-harm, suicide and eating disorders | NSPCC
OTR
View this mental health social movement by and for young people
Wellbeing Practitioner
Blocks of sessions would typically be eight sessions consisting of approximately one hour in 1:1.
Wellbeing Practitioner Overview
Young Minds
This is the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health
All referral requests should go via the student’s Achievement Coordinators, who can complete a Fairfield referral form and send to Wellbeing Intervention lead.
Should you wish to liaise with the Intervention Lead directly, please email [email protected]