Action for happiness Calendar
Wellbeing and emotional health activities
Daily wellbeing activities 2023
Mental Health and Wellbeing Statement
The mental health and wellbeing of all members of Hollingworth Primary School’s community (including staff, students and parents) is fundamental to our philosophy and ethos ‘valuing everyone, caring for each other, achieving excellence’.
Intent:
To ensure that through the promotion of positive mental health and wellbeing, children and young people are helped to understand and express their feelings, build their confidence and emotional resilience and therefore their capacity to learn.
To increase the awareness and understanding and reduce stigma amongst students, staff and parents/carers of issues involving the mental health and wellbeing of young people and to provide support at an early stage to any student who is or appears to be suffering from mental health issues.
Implementation:
The culture at Hollingworth Primary School promotes students’ positive mental health and wellbeing and avoids stigma by:
- Having a whole-school approach to promoting positive mental health and wellbeing within an ethos of high expectations and constant support.
- Having a committed staff community that sets a whole school culture of positive mental health and wellbeing, support and values that everyone understands.
- Having a robust regime of continuing professional development (CPD) for staff.
- Utilising an assessment to track and monitor the wellbeing of our pupils and staff.
- Working closely with students, parents and carers.
- Whole school promotion of kindness and building individual resilience and tenacity in all areas of the curriculum.
Impact:
Mental health and wellbeing is a very varied and complex area and there are no quick fix solutions. Maintaining every day, regular routines wherever possible, such as, attending school and lessons whilst working towards managing mental health is key. Our school offers a range of services to help students develop positive mental health and wellbeing and support those experiencing mental health issues:
- Our pastoral team, lead and support positive mental health and wellbeing across school.
- Staff are well placed to spot changes in behaviour that might indicate a problem and offer support and guidance. Many things can cause a change in mental health including traumatic events (e.g. loss or separation, life changes, abuse, domestic violence or bullying).
- SEND Team
- Working closely with Emotionally Friendly Settings identifying a clear Action Plan, following on from staff and pupil audits.
- Use of the Worry Wizard curriculum (Tameside Borough Council) focussing on mental health topics in order to raise awareness and understanding and provide strategies for developing positive emotional health and wellbeing and managing mental health.
- PSHE has the flexibility to focus on developing children’s resilience, confidence and ability to learn.
- Constructive links with outside support and specialist agencies (e.g. School nurse, MAST, CAMHS) to provide interventions for those with mental health problems.
To view our in-school pupil support pathway please visit the link below:
AcSEED Award
We are delighted to announce that our school’s work on promoting Emotional Health and Wellbeing for all children and our school family has been recognised by AcSEED. The AcSEED Award is a quality assurance mark presented to schools that have made a substantial effort to support the mental health of their students. It encourages and rewards the provision of high quality emotional wellbeing services, from the broad provision of information right through to appropriately targeted intervention.
Based on best practices, the scheme defines a set of standard criteria that all schools must meet in order to receive the award. Our school approach and work has been recognised for our ongoing commitment to supporting all children and adults in our school family to ensure their emotional health and wellbeing is prioritised and provided for and for our work to provide children with a ‘toolbox’ of skills and resources to support them through life.
The AcSEED review team were particularly impressed with:
- Lego Therapy Course.
- Peace Out Guided relaxation for Year 6.
- Whole school Mindfulness day.
- TOG Mind Emotional Wellbeing Consultancy Project.
- Participation in The Anna Freud Education for Wellbeing research programme.
- Wellbeing Days.
- Mindfulness Club.
- Letters of Gratitude.
- Classroom emotion boards.
- Advent calendar of happiness.
- Parenting Workshops.
- Good working practice with outside agencies.
- Hot Shot sessions.
- Reflective Poetry.
Please have a look at the links below for mindfulness and wellbeing.
Be well Tameside: https://www.tameside.gov.uk/bewelltameside