Kingfishers SEMH Resource Provision

Our Kingfishers Resource Provision is designed for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs who require a carefully structured and supportive environment within a mainstream primary school. All children placed in Kingfishers have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), and benefit from personalised support alongside opportunities to learn within their mainstream classroom.

Our aim is to nurture each child’s wellbeing, build emotional resilience, and help them access a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum in a way that feels safe, achievable and positive.

How the Kingfishers Provision Works

Children in Kingfishers spend time in both the Resource Provision and their mainstream class, with a timetable personalised to their individual needs.

• Children who are able to manage more time in the mainstream classroom typically spend a greater proportion of their mornings with their class. They then access the Resource Provision for carefully planned SEMH support, regulation, and specialist interventions.

• Children who require a higher level of emotional, behavioural or sensory support spend more time within Kingfishers. The provision offers a calm, predictable and highly structured environment to ensure children feel safe, understood and regulated. These children also join their mainstream class for appropriate learning opportunities, school trips and wider school events when it is in the best interest of their wellbeing.

Support and Interventions

Every child in Kingfishers has a personalised Regulation Support Plan outlining their strategies, triggers, and the approaches that help them feel safe and ready to learn.

Children also receive bespoke interventions, which may include:

• Emotional regulation support

• Planned daily check‑ins and reflection time
• Social communication and interaction activities
• Therapeutic approaches such as nurture activities, sensory breaks and relationship‑based support
• Targeted academic support, where needed, delivered in a way that reduces pressure and supports self-esteem

Our staff team have specialist training and experience in SEMH needs, trauma‑informed approaches, and therapeutic behaviour support.

Visiting Kingfishers

We welcome visits from parents and carers who would like to understand more about our provision. Visits take place after school.
Please note that places are allocated by the local authority, not by the school.

To arrange a visit, please contact the Academy office 
office@newlandsprimary.chimat.uk

Application Process for a Kingfishers Placement

Placements in the Resource Provision are decided by Hampshire SEN through the EHCP process. This usually follows these steps:

1. Annual Review of the EHCP
   The current school advises the local authority if it is unable to meet the child’s needs.

2. Consultation Stage
   Hampshire SEN sends consultation requests to a range of suitable settings, including the parents’ preferred options.

3. Settings Respond
   Schools review the EHCP and confirm whether they can meet the child’s needs.

4. Panel Discussion
   Hampshire SEN reviews all responses and discusses each child at a placement panel with special schools and Resource Provisions.

5. Outcome Shared
   The SEN team receives the proposed placement recommendations.

6. Final Decision
   Hampshire SEN issues a placement decision and sends any offers to parents.

7. Parent Decision
   Parents can agree or disagree with the placement offered.

8. Transition Planning
   If the placement is accepted, a personalised transition plan is created and implemented over an agreed timescale.