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Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
Mrs Brown is our trained ELSA in school.
An ELSA is a teaching assistant who helps children and young people develop emotional literacy, social skills, and positive mental health. ELSAs work with children individually or in small groups to help them understand and regulate their emotions, and respect the feelings of others. ELSAs are trained by educational psychologists and receive ongoing supervision.
ELSAs have been trained to work with children who are showing a wide range of emotional or social difficulties for example; anxiety, low self esteem, problems with anger etc. ELSAs have been chosen for their ability to build good relationships with children.
ELSAs are warm, kind and caring people who want to make children and young people feel happy in school. and to reach their potential socially, emotionally and academically. They understand the barriers to learning that some children and young people might have and can help them with this.
They can support the children and young person’s emotional development and help them cope with life’s challenges. ELSAs will also help children and young people to find solutions to problems they might have.
An ELSA is not there to fix problems but to help children find their own solutions and offer that important support .
Relationships are key in helping children and young people to feel safe and nurtured. ELSA is about creating a reflective space for the child or young person.
ELSA intervention should be a short term focus intervention with clear aims. Usually half a term to a full term in length.