Colley Lane Primary School is in Dudley in the West Midlands. It has 584 pupils on roll, with 20 per cent designated as having SEN (school action/statement), 21 per cent have English as an additional language (EAL) and nearly a quarter are eligible for free school meals.
As part of the Pupil Premium spending in 2012/13, the school decided to use clinical psychology and educational psychology support.
The initiative involved one clinical psychologist and an educational psychologist being embedded within the school – providing full day support on a weekly basis. As well as interventions focused on developing relationships between the school and parents, and targeted training sessions for staff development, the psychologists were heavily involved with a targeted programme of support for a number of pupils in key stage 1 who were presenting with significant social, emotional and behavioural difficulties within the school environment.
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