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