Mental Health & Well-being
A Mental Health First Aider can:
- understand the important factor affecting mental ill health
- identify the signs and symptoms for a range of mental health conditions
- use ALGEE to provide Mental Health First Aid to someone experiencing a mental health issue or crisis
- listen non-judgmentally and hold supportive conversations using the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- signpost people to professional help, recognising that the role does not replace the need for ongoing support
- We also have a member of the Senior Leadership Team who has undertaken Senior Mental Health Lead Training with the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
- To have a whole school approach to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing within a culture of high expectations and support.
- To ensure that, through the promotion of positive mental health and wellbeing, our children are helped to understand and express their feelings, build their confidence and emotional resilience and therefore their capacity to learn.
- To have a committed staff team that sets a whole school culture of positive mental health and wellbeing, support and values that everyone understands, believes in and is prepared to strive for.
- To increase the awareness and understanding and reduce stigma amongst children, staff and our wider community of issues involving the mental health and wellbeing of young people and to provide support at an early stage to any child who is or appears to be suffering from mental health issues.
- To ensure that, embedded within our curriculum, we are enabling our children to become healthy, independent, responsible and confident members of society.
- Children will understand how they are developing personally and socially and many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up will be tackled.
- They will be provided with opportunities to learn about rights and responsibilities and to appreciate what it means to live and thrive as part of a diverse society.
- This Intent Statement sits alongside our Mental Health and Well Being Policy.
- “Mental health is a state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential"
- · All children are valued.=
- · Children have a sense of belonging and feel safe.
- · Children feel able to talk openly with trusted adults about their problems without feeling any stigma.
- · Positive mental health is promoted and valued.
- · Bullying is not tolerated.
- · Feel confident in themselves.
- · Be able to express a range of emotions appropriately.
- · Be able to make and maintain positive relationships with others.
- · Cope with the stresses of everyday life.
- · Manage times of stress and be able to deal with change.
- · Learn and achieve.
- we help our children to build emotional resilience
- we help our children to develop self-esteem
- we help our children to develop confidence
- we help our children to develop their social skills
- we help our children to feel valued and a part of our school community
- Mental health is not just the absence of mental health problems.
- Feel confident in themselves.
- Be able to express a range of emotions appropriately.
- Be able to make and maintain positive relationships with others.
- Cope with the stresses of everyday life.
- Manage times of stress and be able to deal with change.
- Learn and achieve
- Therapeutic play
- Yoga
- Therapy dog
- School rabbit
- Emotional regulation sessions
- Restorative justice practices
- Zones of regulations practice