The role of our wellbeing champion is to help promote positive mental health, encourage open and honest conversations about understanding mental health and share strategies for wellbeing. Our Wellbeing Champions can provide support and guidance to pupils and create an atmosphere of acceptance and understanding within the school. We feel that this is essential to create a positive whole-school approach to wellbeing.
Peer support is an effective way of improving wellbeing amongst children, giving them someone who will listen when they may feel unable to go to an adult with their worries or concerns. Scientific research has demonstrated that accessing the support of peers can boost resilience and wellbeing for children and young people, which is an essential component in fostering emotional health. Better resilience translates to better mental wellbeing and protects against the onset of mental health problems.
Please see the minutes from our meetings below:
Emotional Friendly Schools Award Accreditation
We are currently in the process of applying to achieve an Emotionally Friendly School Status.
The Emotionally Friendly Schools (EFS) programme is a flexible, whole-school approach to improving children's mental health and well-being. By adopting a whole school approach, we can ensure that wellbeing is central to everything that we do.
The accreditation focuses on four key areas:
- Staff Wellbeing and School Ethos
- Classroom Practice
- Assessing Children's Needs
- Supporting Individual Children
At Hindley junior and Infant School, we endeavour to support the wellbeing of both staff and pupils. We aim to ensure that all children are happy, healthy and able to cope with everything that life may throw at them. We promote and teach all pupils to be resilient, confident, have positive self-perceptions and appropriate coping mechanisms in a seamless and continuous method of delivery.
As adults, we ensure that we develop our understanding of emotions, self-control, positive relationships and keeping our mind and body healthy, in order to support our wellbeing and therefore we can have the best impact upon the pupils we support. We recognise, however, that the mental wellbeing of both staff and pupils can change from day to day and that there are times in everybody's life when a little extra help or support may be needed.
As a school we also seek advice and support from many external support agencies and services: CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), School Nurse, Speech and Language Therapists, Paediatricians, the Primary Inclusion Team, the Educational Psychology Service, and we. This helps to ensure that each individual receives the most rounded care possible.
Our Emotional Friendly Setting team is made up of the following staff in school: Mrs Powers, Miss McKeever, Mrs Jones, Mrs Grioli and Mr Wallace.
Additional Support Services
Follow the links below for support with mental health and wellbeing.
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk
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