Mental Health and Wellbeing for Pupils
Our Mental health and Wellbeing vision
Springmead School is committed to promoting and protecting emotional wellbeing and mental health in our school. Our overall aim is to help children and adults develop resilience and coping strategies to support their overall wellbeing; now and in the future. We will make this happen by:
- Effectively working with parents and carers to forge a strong partnership, including providing opportunities to develop their own knowledge and understanding around emotional wellbeing and mental health.
- Helping children to become resilient learners through supportive strategies including strategies to help regulation
- Teaching children, through our ‘Personal Health and Social Education’ (PHSE) curriculum, the social and emotional skills to support their positive mental health and wellbeing.
- Early identification of support for children who have mental health needs, to support them. This includes working with multi-agencies and specialist services.
- Supporting staff to develop their skills and resilience.
- Recognising the stigmas surrounding mental health issues. The school works hard to create an open and positive culture in our whole school community.
Children and Young People's Digital Wellbeing Service
Health for Kids Health for Kids offers a fun, engaging and interactive way for children to learn about health. Find games, articles and lots more right here.
NSPCC - pants With the help of our friendly dinosaur Pantosaurus, Talk PANTS is a simple conversation to help keep your child safe from sexual abuse.
50 things to do before you're 11 and 3/4 National Trust website encouraging children to get away from their screens and enjoy the outdoors
Wellbeing stories to read at home
The Invisible String Read Aloud for Kids!
Top tips for connecting with nature - downloadable PDF
Wellbeing tips
Ten ideas for a screen free weekend
We're spending more time in front of screens than ever right now, so this weekend why not switch off and try some screen free activities as a family.
Stormzy on mental health
Relaxation
This is "Relaxation" by Springmead School on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Breathing Makes It Better by Dr. Christopher Willard - Reading for London Schools
Read along with the author, Dr. Christopher Willard as he reads his book, Breathing Makes It Better.
The Listening Game | Cosmic Kids Zen Den - Mindfulness for kids
⭐ Sign up for FREE access to our Yoga Quest challenge where you print out fun maps & check-off yoga adventures: https://www.cosmickids.com/yogaquest/⭐ .