Emotional Literacy Support Assistants – Meeting Children’s Wellbeing Needs
“The idea is to motivate children and engage them in understanding their emotions better. It’s a mixture of feelings and other difficulties we’re dealing with – anxiety, low self-esteem, sadness, angry feelings or non-compliance and friendship problems,” says Vanessa Biles, an emotional literacy support assistant (ELSA) who works at St Mark’s Primary School in Bournemouth. […]