Mental Health and Wellbeing

Mental Health and well being is a crucial aspect of school life.  Mrs Ford is our lead and Mrs Riches has also carried out the national Mental Health lead training.  In recent years, Mr Saunders alongside many Warrington headteachers, received Mental Health First Aid Training.  We, like many Warrington school use teh ‘My Happy Mind’ materials to develop whole school support. 

 

A variety of activities and events take place in school to support children and adults but perhaps most important is the school ethos which values each and every person as a gift from God.  Below is a list of some of the activities we have engaged in this year.

 

  • My Happy Minds 
  • Questionnaires to assess the wellbeing of school and individuals
  • Face-to-face conversations with individual staff self-identifying on questionnaires
  • Questionnaires to parents and acted upon, incl. coffee morning
  • Mental health newsletters
  • National Mental health day with whole school.
  • Two assemblies each half term on Mental Health directed at appropriate age group
  • A designated and appropriately designed quiet room
  • Class worry boxes and post box outside the headteacher’s office
  • Class resources, e.g. shakers
  • A TA training as ELSA lead
  • No outsiders work feeds into Mental Health work
  • Class libraries being better sourced
  • Improved and well used recording system to identify struggling children with follow up where necessary
  • Use of staff buddies for individual support
  • CPD including Attachment, Trauma and Mental Health Awareness training for all teaching staff
  • Staff meetings standing item
  • Children as Mental Health champions
  • Anti-bullying ambassadors across school
  • All training and school events considered in the light of wellbeing and workload
  • School Improvement Partner report (Summer 2022 Term Visit) evidenced pupils having a good awareness of mental health and ways to keep themselves mentally well. They also felt supported by the school and knew where to seek help if they needed it.