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Student Support and Wellbeing

Forge Valley Sixth Form is an environment where you are equipped to achieve your personal goals.

We will support and guide you, both academically and pastorally, in building your confidence and to develop as an individual. As well as the informal support and guidance that happens on a day-to-day basis, all students attend regular assemblies, weekly tutorial periods and daily regulation activities that seek to enable you to make wise decisions, discuss career plans, assess your own progress and seek help if problems arise. 

Free School Meals

Guidance on application form Sheffield Council:

If you have a child attending a Sheffield school or maintained nursery, you may be entitled to free school meals if you receive any of these benefits:

  • Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods) 
  • Income Support
  • Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
  • Income related Employment Support Allowance
  • Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
  • The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
  • Child Tax Credit as long as you have a yearly household income of less than £16,190 (as assessed by HM Revenue and Customs) and do not get Working Tax Credit
  • Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)

If you are over 18 and still attend school your free school meals will continue. If you are unsure about your eligibility please contact us.

You are still able to apply for Free School Meals if your child attends Sixth Form at a Sheffield School.

Please use the link below.

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/schools-childcare/school-meals

 

Mental Health Support 


Exam Stress

YoungMinds - coping techniques for exam stress

ChildLine - coping techniques for exam stress

Kooth - 24/7 support for students 

Student Space - general student support and advice 

Depression and Low Mood 

Door43 - one-to-one and group counselling 

Golddigger Trust - wellbeing café and support groups 

Youngminds - understanding depression 

Golddigger Trust - men's mental health support group 

Chilypep - mental health toolkit 

Grief and Change 

Golddigger Trust - 'making sense' counselling 

Hope Support - online personalised support

Winstons Wish - 24/7 support and 8 week counselling support 

Grief Encounter - personalised counselling 

Grief Encounter - guides for coping with birthdays and holidays

Cruise - local support 

Identity and confidence 

YoungMinds - cultural identity and mental health

YoungMinds - self-worth and believing in yourself 

Golddigger Trust - understanding your identity

Golddigger Trust - self-worh in young women

Disordered Eating 

Golddigger Trust - managing emotions 

YoungMinds - bulimia and mental health 

Syeda - local services for support

Family Action - food and mood 

BEAT - support with eating disorders

Neurodiversity

YoungMinds - ADHD and mental health 

YoungMinds - ADHD and self-care 

YoungMinds - autism and everyday life 

Family Action - local support for people and families supporting neurodiverse individuals 

Sleep

Chil - sleep toolkit