RCS.comm & Community & Family Services
RCS.comm is the school base for the delivery of learning and support for vulnerable learners. It offers one to one teaching and one to one support from a variety of services. Students and families access RCS.Comm for a wide range of support.
In addition to the RCS.Comm service the Community and Family Services Team are responsible for delivering projects and working with key partners as follows:
Care Worker - Vicky Harrison
Vicky is the schools 'Student and Family Care Worker', offering unconditional support to young people and often their families whatever their needs may be. She typically supports with issues around friendship, bullying, low self esteem, issues at home etc. Please click here to find out more information on this service and how to access it.
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Projects
Safe Haven
Every Thursday 1-1:30pm and Wednesday at 3:10pm in the Connexions/Youth Space at RCS. Open to all students, come along to have a chat and chill out, refreshments are available as well as games and activities.
'V' Kids volunteers
Our group of young volunteers carry out a range of projects in the community - from bird boxes, to tree planting to beach cleaning. All young people recieve an Asdan Community Volunteering Qualification. Click here to look at a presentation by the 'V' Kids
Kids Club
Funded through the Coalfields Regeneration Trust this offers activities for local young people aged 9-14 years every Saturday and during the school holidays. It is located in the Park Hall, Rosehill Park.
Please click here to find out the dates and times of the club and information on activities!
‘Out-of-Hours’ Learning and Study Support
The team deliver and organise a range of after school and weekend learning opportunities including "cook n' chill" and learning raids to places such as the 'The Deep' in Hull.
Residential Opportunities
The team deliver an annual volunteering residential in Whitby and a 'pal' restorative practice training residential in Edale.
the ‘Pal’ (Pro-Active Listener) team as part of Student Leadership at RCS
'Pals' are a group of students who are trained to offer a peer support service to others in the school community. Click here to find out more!
Strengthening Families
This is a 6 week after school programme which we run for young people and their parents. It helps families spend positive time together, have fun finding out what they have in common and share as a family, and to develop skills in setting limits.
The next programme start on 4th May for 6 weeks, contact 01709 512858 for more information.
F.A.S.T. (Families and Schools Together)
FAST uses a family approach to strengthen the family group and increase parent involvement to support a childs learning. It includes games and a shared family meal.
Fund Raising and Resourcing
In recent months we have been awarded a variety of funding from different sources to develop community based projects.
C.A.R.E. and Rawmarsh & Parkgate Kids Care
CARE (Community Association for Rawmarsh Education) is the schools Parent Teacher Association. Rawmarsh & Parkgate Kids Care is constituted to encourage young people to take a lead on generating resources to be able to provide a wide range of enrichment activities.
Provision
RCS Care.Comm
This project, funded through Coalfields Regeneration Trust provides a trained worker to support students and families and also ensures the delivery of RCS Kids Club.
Parent Support Adviser
Our Parent Support Adviser - Vicky Houghton, provides support to families who need any help in helping their children to engage with school. Vicky is based at RCS and Rosehill and works across the community of schools.
Safeguarding
RCS.comm plays a co-ordinating role in ensuring an effective multi agency approach to meeting the needs of vulnerable young people. It liaises closely with the locality team to organise services around the need of the child and their family.
Communications
Sara Telling is responsible for developing the RCS school website and portal. Sara also creates and publishes the termly RCS Update magazine and supports student leadership in the school.
Click here or on the icon to look at our most recent Update magazine.
Mediation
Staff in the team offer a mediation service between students and families to manage conflict when crisis or disagreement occurs. Several families have benefitted from this and the process has helped the young people involved to re-engage in learning.
Partner Services
School Nursing
Jill Harper is our school nurse. She offers appointments and a drop-in service in the Connexions building on school site from 1pm on a Monday and a Thursday. She can be contacted through staff in RCS.comm. Click here for further info.
CHAT
(Confidential Health Advice for Teenagers) runs on school site from 3:10pm to 5pm every Thursday (term time). It offers support for all health issues and contraception. Click here for more info!
MIND for young people
MIND are in school alternative Thursdays and every Friday. They are based in our Speakeasy room in 'B' block and offer 1:1 appointments to students. Appointments can be made through Student Learning and Success Leaders or staff in RCS.comm.
Risky Business
This project delivers sessions to both girls and boys in Year 8. Now running as part of the 'Impact' timetable it works with young people to identify 'risks' in their life and develop strategies to keep themselves safe.
Young Carer’s
Part of Barnardo's, this team provide workers who will come into school to offer 1:1 support to young people who are caring for an adult in their family.
Ricochet
This project is run by young peer tutors who have been homeless themselves. It offers workshops to students in Year 10 about homelessness, how it happens and what support there is for young people.
‘Know the Score’
Key workers from this project will offer individualised support to students and their families aho have concerns about either drug or alcohol abuse.
Rawmarsh&Me
Rawmarsh&Me is an exciting project which has been awarded to a partnership of RCS, High Street Centre and the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC). One of only fifteen projects in the whole of the UK it involves a wide range of activities to inspire young people and their families to want to learn, achieve and have fun in their own community whilst also venturing into others.
Click here for more information.
