Mae gan Ysgol Bryniago ddrws agored. Os hoffech gymorth gyda gwaith eich plentyn yna cysylltwch gyda’r athro dosbarth, os gwelwch yn dda. Mae gennym ni adnoddau i’ch cynorthwyo yn yr adrannau canlynol hefyd.
We have an open door policy in Ysgol Bryniago. If you wish to discuss ways of supporting your child’s work then please speak to the class teacher. However, we do have a range of resources to support you at home too.
Childhood Neurodivergence: Supporting Your Neurodivergent Teenager
For parents/carers of children aged 13+. From managing exam stress to peer pressures in friendship groups, being a teenager brings new experiences for young people. This workshop will explore differences for neurodivergent teenagers and ways to support your neurodivergent teen into early adulthood.
Childhood Neurodiversity: Understanding and Supporting Sensory Needs
What are the different sensory systems? What might sensory processing difficulties look like in children and teenagers? This workshop will answer these questions and explore how parents and carers can support a child's sensory needs.
Building Resilience: Managing the Next Steps (Part 1)
Life is unpredictable and over the last few years we have been living with more uncertainty than usual. This workshop introduces tools that parents/carers can use to support their young people to cope better with uncertainty now and in the years to come.
Supporting Students with Separation Anxiety
This workshop is aimed at staff members working in schools to support them in developing an understanding of the role of separation anxiety in emotion-based avoidance and other behaviours, displayed within a school context.
Supporting our Students with Emotional Regulation
This workshop is aimed at all staff who encounter pupils who struggle with their emotions, relationships or stress. The session will start by considering the function of emotions and what can impact on a child's ability to regulate them.
Childhood Neurodiversity: The Impact of Early Life Stress
This workshop explores the impact of early life stress, or traumatic experiences, on childhood development. It considers the similarities and differences between neurodivergent traits and the impact of early life stress and discuss neurodivergent children's vulnerability to early life stress.
Supporting your child/adolescent with anxiety
Dr Emmiline Gwaspari and Dr Lucy Hunn will take you through this workshop for parents of school aged children to help them understand anxiety better. The session covers: what is anxiety, why anxiety, how it effects the brain, how it effects the body, how it impacts on what we do and don't do and how parents can support their children/adolescents who might be struggling with anxiety.
Supporting your child to manage big feelings
This workshop includes information on children's emotional development and what is happening in their brain when they are experiencing big emotions. It also provides practical and supportive guidance on what are some of the things that parents can do to support their children with the emotions they experience.
Supporting Your Child/Young Person with Anxiety
This workshop helps parents to better understand anxiety. It covers what is anxiety, why anxiety, how it effects the brain, how it affects the body, how it impacts on what we do and don't do and how parents can support their children/adolescents who might be struggling with anxiety.
Supporting your child/young person with Emotion Based School Avoidance (EBSA)
Presented by Linda Brindle (Senior Psychotherapist) and Dr Lucy Hunn (Clinical Psychologist) For parents/carers of school aged children. Many children/young people experience challenges during education. Emotion Based School Avoidance or EBSA is where children and young people find it difficult to attend school due to emotional factors.
Supporting your child/young person with bereavement
Supporting Your Child/Adolescent with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This workshop is for parents of school aged children to help them understand 'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder' (OCD) better. This session covers: what OCD is, how it effects and impacts young people and how parents can support their children/adolescents who might be struggling with OCD and further support available.
Building Understanding and Supporting your Child with Tourette's/Tics
This workshop provides information about Tourette's and Tics in children and adolescents, dispels some common myths, and gives guidance on how you can best support your child/adolescent as they negotiate the highs and lows of life with tics.
Understanding and Supporting Pupils Who Have Experienced Bereavement
This workshop is aimed at school staff who support young people that have experienced a bereavement. It will give guidance on what can be done in schools to support young people and provide resources that can be shared with young people and their families.
Getting the Best out of your Relationship with Your Child
This workshop helps make the link between emotions, mood, relationships and how we communicate. This practical session provides six communication strategies that you might find helpful to use as an adult or teenager in your relationships with others.
Supporting students who self harm
This workshop is aimed at staff members working in schools to support them in developing an understanding of what is meant by self-harm and why self-harm happens. It will provide information on what schools can do to help support young people who self-harm, and give information and resources that may be helpful to share with young people and parents.
Supporting Children/Adolescents with Eating Difficulties
The workshop is designed to explore some of the eating difficulties young people may be facing at this time, to understand how food can be used as a coping mechanism in times of stress, to address what a parent/carer can do that is helpful or not helpful, and importantly to identify what are the red flags that alert a parent/carer to take action and get help, as well as where to get help.
Managing changes and transitions as we enter summer holidays
A workshop for parents/carers to support their young people with managing changes and transitions. The Psychology in Schools Team is based in Suffolk, UK so resource information focuses on services local to there, but helpful national resources for parents, carers and young people are also shared.
Social Media and the Impact on our Teenagers' Mental Health - Parent workshop
This workshop increases understanding of how the use of social media might be associated with mental health difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, self-harm and body image. It also explores the world of our young people to offer a balanced perspective to supporting our young people in this area.
Understanding Trauma
This workshop is for parents and carers of children who have experienced trauma. It will include a brief introduction to understanding what we mean by trauma and consider the impact of early traumatic experiences on child development. It will focus on what you can do to support your child's wellbeing and sense of psychological safety.
Supporting Your Child or Adolescent with Challenging Behaviour
This workshop explores child behaviour that parents or teachers find challenging to manage, such as: hyperactivity, difficulties with attention, aggression, difficulties with friendships and relationships, and irritability. We cover practical ways to help respond to these behaviours.
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in your Child (Part 1)
This two-part workshop is for parents who have seen the "supporting your child/adolescent with anxiety" and/or "supporting your child to manage anxiety and big feelings" workshops. It gives parents the practical tools to support their child with anxiety.
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in your Child (Part 2)
This workshop is for parents of children under 12 who have attended the "Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in Your Child (Under 12s) - Part 1. If you have not been able to view or attend this, then it can be accessed here (https://youtu.be/0EZlty4Wynw).
Understanding Self-Harm in Children/Adolescents
Knowing your child is finding things difficult and hurting themselves can be frightening and confusing for parents. This workshop aims to develop parents' understanding of self-harm. It covers what self-harm is, why it happens, and what we can do to help.
Supporting your Child/Adolescent to Regulate Their Emotions
This introductory workshop will introduce what emotion dysregulation is and explore what things can impact on a child or young person's ability to regulate their emotions. It will then focus on what you can do to support your young person and introduce you to some key self-regulation skills.
Supporting Your Child or Adolescent with Low Mood
Everyone has days when they feel low, this is normal. Sometimes this low mood hangs around for longer and starts to make it difficult for our children to do the things that are important to them. This can affect their relationships with others.
Parent workshop: Building resilience - managing the next steps
Dr Beth Mosley (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) and Dr Tamara Scully (Clinical Psychologist), from the NSFT Psychology in Schools Team, present a parent workshop around resilience. This workshop explores what resilience is and why it is important for our young people.
Supporting your Child to Attend or Get Back to School
This workshop focuses on supporting parents to help their child to attend or get back to school. The workshop helps develop an understanding of school avoidance for parents and provide the tools that can be used to help your child feel confident in re-engaging with school.
