GRANT AWARDED - Friends of Westgate Primary School

They have seen an increasing need for children to have support in regulating their emotions, and although this was something they have always prioritised, it has become a larger focus since Covid. The school has adapted to this with a change in their behaviour policy to focus more on relationships and regulation and have converted a number of spaces in school into 'regulation spaces'. These are areas where the children can spend time either on their own or with an adult, safely regulating their emotions ready to return to learning. The five spaces they converted were previously storage rooms so the grant was used to purchase beanbags, other furnishings and decorating materials to convert them into something that was much more useful for them.