The John of Gaunt’s Early Help Offer for Children and their Families
At The John of Gaunt School, we recognise the challenges that families face in bringing up children. There may be times when you need extra help and support. If this is the case, our doors are always open for you to come and talk to us.
School Telephone Number: 01225 762637
Meet The Teams
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Year 7
Miss Z Lewis – Head of Year
Miss J Martin, Assistant Head of Year
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Year 8
Mrs K Bodman – Head of Year
Miss E Beer - Head of Year
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Year 9
Mrs B Green – Head of Year
Mr I Walker - Head of Year
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Year 10
Mrs S Scott – Head of Year
Mrs J Addecott - Assistant Head of Year
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Year 11
Mrs K Poole – Head of Year
Mrs S Acheson - Head of Year
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Year 12 and 13
Mrs L Baines – Head of Sixth Form
Mr Dunbar – Assistant Head of Sixth Form
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Pastoral Teams
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KS3 (Years 7,8 and 9)
Ms R Hanson
Mr B Cooke
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KS4 (Years 10 and 11)
Mrs S Stewart
Mrs J Taylor
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KS5 (Years 12 and 13)
Mrs Z Pepler
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Health and Well Being / First Aid
Mrs J Moger
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All staff can be emailed by using the staff initial and surname followed by @jogschool.org
For example, Miss Lewis is zlewis@jogschool.org
Additional Key Personnel:
The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) : Mrs H Kerr
Deputy Safeguarding Leads
Mrs S J Hill and Mrs K Glabraith
The SENCo : Mrs Marshall
Early Help is a pathway to supporting you and your child as they grow up when you or they may need further support or guidance. Providing early help to our pupils and families at The John of Gaunt School means we can improve outcomes for children, families, and communities, providing support as soon as a problem emerges.
There are many ways in which we can help as outlined in this offer of early help. In order to support you in the right way, we work with you to identify: what are you worried about, what is working well and what needs to happen. The information you share with us, we will use to form a ‘family plan’. This will help us to easily identify what other agencies and professionals we may use to be able to support you and your child appropriately.
Early Help can support children and their families who may be struggling with:
- Routines and family rules
- Children who care for a family member
- Children who may not want to go to school for different reasons
- Children in the family who have special educational needs (SEND)
- Children or parents / carers misusing drugs or alcohol - Children at risk of becoming involved in anti-social or criminal behaviour
- Children who go missing from home
- Children at risk of being tricked, forced, or made to work in the criminal world
- Children who may need support because they may live in a home and see adult mental health problems.
- Children who have parents who argue a lot (and sometimes might hurt each other) whether the parents live together or apart.
- Children at risk of being groomed to join groups which support illegal views
- A privately fostered child (a child from another family living within your family home)
Early help relies upon local groups and people in the community. Sometimes we work together to help children, young people, and their families.
Early Help is a pathway to supporting your child and you during challenging times.
The diagram below shows the range of needs at different levels. We use this graduated approach to make sure we provide the best support for different families’ individual situations.
All staff at The John of Gaunt School understand and follow the statutory guidance for safeguarding in schools called 'Keeping Children safe in Education' (KCSIE 2023) and follow the early help procedures as stated in this document.
If you feel your family may benefit from working with us, please contact one of your child’s year team to see what we may be able to offer.
The students self-navigated on this hike, and some early skills were needed (watching out for signs and stiles, rotating their maps and watching for their "tick features"). On the whole, progress was smooth, and we made our way across sticky and gloopy farmers' fields, crunched through stubble, crab-walked down treacherous slippery slopes and handrailed the River Frome for our lunch at Tellisford weir. The older and more experienced students had steamed off ahead but also acted as our reconnaissance - sending me detailed messages about how to creatively navigate past several fields and footpaths with knee-deep water.
