Family Support Worker: Sammi Kirkby
My name is Sammi Kirkby and I am the Family Support Worker at Medina House School.
I have worked at MHS for many years, in fact almost too many to mention and I have been lucky enough to work in almost all areas of the school, from Nursery to Speech Therapy assistant.
I am N.N.E.B trained and fairly recently became an HLTA.
Even after all this time, I still feel privileged to work at MHS, as each day is new and every day I learn something from the children and their parents.
I can now be found at The Medina Help Hut in Green Street. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any support you may require. By phone – just call the main school number, and choose option 1, the admin staff will put you through to me. Alternatively, I can be reached on my email address – skirkby@medinahouse.iow.sch.uk.
Help Hut
Medina House School has expanded its facilities to include a space devoted to supporting parents/carers and the wider family, based in a building next to Medina Cottage (in Green Street, Newport, PO30 2AN).
It’s known as the Help Hut.
All the training now takes place at the hut.
Training Tuesdays’ Morning sessions will be for adults only. Refreshments will be available between 9am and 9.15am. The session will then begin at 9.15am and end at 11am.
Training Tuesdays’ Afternoon sessions will be the same as the morning, but toddlers will be welcome. Refreshments will be available between 1.00pm and 1.15pm. The session will then begin at 1.15pm and end at 2.30pm.
Wednesday Wellbeing sessions are open to all, toddlers are welcome. Refreshments will be available between 1.00pm and 1.15pm. The session will then begin at 1.15pm and end at 2.30pm.
Details will be advertised in the Monthly Newsletter and uploaded to the website in the Family Support News specifying the planned schedule.
The hut is also a drop in centre for parents who are in need of someone to talk to and a coffee.
Over the years we have found that one of the greatest resources a parent at MHS can have is other parents. You can learn so much from each other. People who lead similar lives to you and encounter the same challenges every day. Our hope for the Help Hut is that it will be somewhere to make new friends, as well as somewhere to catch up with old ones.