Supporting families with their wellbeing
Renissa Rhoden is our Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) and works at Harrington Hill every Thursday morning. Renissa supports children through targeted group interventions and delivers one-off class workshops on a range of emotional wellbeing topics. She also offers Guided Self-Help (GSH) sessions for parents and carers, alongside workshops and coffee mornings designed to provide practical strategies and support for families.
Dr Natalie Bailey is our CAMHS Worker in School and a Counselling Psychologist. She has been working alongside the Harrington Hill community for over four years, supporting our whole-school approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health. Natalie works with children, parents, carers and staff, providing consultations, workshops, assemblies and staff training across a wide range of areas. Her work includes helping children understand and manage their emotions, developing emotional regulation and resilience, strengthening relationships, and promoting positive mental health across the school community. Through this collaborative approach, she helps to ensure that emotional wellbeing remains at the heart of school life. Natalie Bailey works at Harrington Hill fortnightly on Tuesdays.
Lila Bertagni is a Family Navigator from Hackney Children and Family Hubs. Lila supports families by helping them access a wide range of services available within the local community. Lila offers practical advice, guidance and signposting on issues such as parenting support, housing, debt, benefits and family wellbeing. She can help families understand what support is available and connect them with the most appropriate services to meet their needs. Through workshops, coffee mornings and one-to-one conversations, Lila works alongside families at Harrington Hill Primary to help them access early support and build strong links with local services. If you would like to get in touch with Lila, please let the school office know.
WAMHS Leaflet Primary for parents
At Harrington Hill Primary School, we prioritise the wellbeing of our children and staff. We recognise that wellbeing is all about our holistic health, including the physical and emotional. When we have good levels of wellbeing, we feel that life is in balance and that we can generally cope well. We feel motivated and engaged, we are resilient and able to deal effectively with daily troubles, as well as ‘bounce back’ from life’s challenges.
Harrington Hill Primary Mental Health Provision Map 07.03.25
Good Mental Health helps children to:
- Learn and explore the world
- Feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions
- Form and maintain good relationships with others
- Cope with and manage change and uncertainty
- Develop and thrive
At Harrington Hill we try to embed the 5 Ways to Wellbeing in our daily lives.
There are lots of ways we focus on wellbeing at Harrington Hill, below are some examples:
Wellbeing environment – every class has a worry box and a feelings flower
Daily mindfulness activities – each class runs a short mindfulness activity every day, this could be doing peer massage, meditating or sharing compliment.
Wellbeing week– twice a year we have a wellbeing week for staff and children
Sensory room – we have a sensory room in school which children use to improve their wellbeing
To read more about Wellbeing at Harrington Hill – please read our Mental Health Policy below.
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WAMHS Leaflet Primary and Secondary Schools 2025
