Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Supporting your Child's Mental Health and Wellbeing If your child is struggling at the moment there are lots of simple things that you can do to help. Please remember that you are not alone and there is plenty of help available. The school's role in supporting and promoting mental health and wellbeing can be summarised as: 1. Prevention: creating a safe and calm environment where mental health problems are less likely, improving the mental health and well-being of the whole school population, and equipping pupils to be resilient so that they can manage the normal stress of life effectively. This will include teaching pupils about mental well-being through the curriculum and reinforcing this teaching through school activities and ethos. 2. Identification: recognising emerging issues as early and accurately as possible. 3. Individualised support: helping pupils to access evidence based early support and interventions. 4. Access to external services: working effectively with external agencies to provide swift access or referrals to specialist support and treatment. |
Our mental health offer ranges from whole class provision, small group intervention and bespoke 1:1 support. Our pupils are taught self-care techniques, including recognising and managing emotions, exercise, relaxation and how to build relationships through a rich and varied curriculum. We foster an open culture when it comes to discussing mental health and wellbeing.
We have a huge range of mental health and wellbeing provision in school, including:
- 1:1 Mentor sessions with our Learning Mentor
- Social skills and social stories groups
- Friendship Groups/ playtime buddies
- Leaders at Lunch
- Wellbeing club run by our Learning Mentor
- Workshops delivered by MindMate Support Team.
- Group sessions focusing on emotions, anxiety, self-esteem and confidence.
- MindMate sessions built into our PSHE curriculum
- Wellbeing Assemblies throughout the year
- Wellbeing Wednesday Sessions – Ambassador and Kindness Club meetings
- Peer Mentoring
- Wellbeing Toolkits in each classroom
- The Hive, a nurture room where children can spend time
- Zones of Regulation
- Bespoke provision in classrooms- visual time tables, reward charts, kindness incentives, behaviour support and much more!
July 2024 End of Year Wellbeing Newsletter.pdf
Spring 2025 Wellbeing Newsletter.pdf
Useful contact details for Mental Health & Family Support.pdf