Nessie Updates
How to explore your child’s worries
It's not always easy for children to talk or understand their worries and anxieties. By sharing our worries and anxieties, we can shrink them. Here is a great way to encourage and enable your child to think about and share their worries: USE THE BOOK “HUGE BAG OF...
A NOTICE FOR STAFF WORKING IN EDUCATION SETTINGS
Background photo created by freepik - www.freepik.com Due to currently being unable to visit schools and other education settings to work with you and the children and young people, we at NESSie want you to know that we are still available to carry on supporting...
Additional Needs Wellbeing Day
We had a wonderful time last week at the Additional Needs Wellbeing Day, hosted by The Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living, meeting children with additional needs and their families. We had an information stall where families could come and meet us and enjoy a chat...
DSPL2 Update
We are delighted to be back working with all of the DSPL2 schools for our second academic year! A big thank you to all the staff who made and make us feel so welcome each time we enter your schools to offer therapy, parent training and staff forums. Some...
Experiential Sessions: Exploring the Creative Arts Therapies For Staff and Parents
Stevenage Coordinators, Art Therapist Harri Nicholas and Drama and Movement Therapist Charlotte Wilmer-Barbrook, hosted two sessions in July for staff and parents on the Creative Arts Therapies. They received a wonderful turnout for both sessions, engaging 15 parents...
Well done Yoshi Bear!
So with much excitement and in trepidation Yoshi Bear attended his first formal award ceremony! Nominated for a Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Leading Lights Award, Yoshi went to the groomers and had a new collar for the grand day. After sitting patiently with...
NESSie Art Therapist Harri Nicholas run’s the 2019 London Marathon for Team Macmillan!
A blog post from our very own Harri Nicholas: On Sunday 28th April, I completed the Virgin Money Giving London Marathon 2019 in 6 hours and 11 minutes alongside my husband. It was an amazing experience which was difficult along the way but we had unbelievably...
Meet Yoshi Bear: our new pets as therapy dog
Yoshi Bear Yoshi Bear is five years old and is a Pets as Therapy Dog. He lives with Charlotte, our Area Co-ordinator for Stevenage, and loves nothing better than helping children relax, laugh and have fun. His sister Darcey and another chocolate cocker...
One of our success stories!
A member of our team has just finished with a child in year 1. They had been excluded from one school, and were unable to be in class at the new school. This was due to significant behavioural difficulties. The child was STUC (Significant Trauma, Unmet Need in...