ELSA

What are Elsas?

Emotional Literacy Support Assistants - or ELSAs - are teaching assistants trained to provide emotional and social skills support to children.

ELSAs support the emotional needs of pupils through developing and delivering individualised support programmes to meet their emotional needs.  

What do ELSAs do?

• help children recognise, understand and manage emotions to increase success

• plan and deliver individual (and small group) support programmes

• receive training and supervision from educational psychologists

ELSA at Arden

We recognise that children learn better and are happier in school if their emotional needs are also addressed.

Miss Copeland is our school ELSA. She is trained to support children with social skills, emotions, bereavement, social stories and therapeutic stories, anger management, self-esteem and counselling skills, such as solution focus and friendship. Miss Copeland works with a number of children across school every week. Children can be referred to Miss Copeland via their class teachers through consultation with their parents.