Welcome to the Well Being Spot!
A safe space to explore well being activities, feelings and more.
Mrs Pollington
There is so much information and advice on mental health that it can be overwhelming: where do you start?
This post aims to make things a little easier as being a parent is hard enough!
Let’s look at a range of signs telling you that your child might be struggling:
Next steps:
1. If you are concerned about your child being in immediate danger, please go to your nearest A&E where support from a mental health worker can be accessed straight away.
2. If there is no immediate danger:
For more information on available services near you, please check the link below:
https://www.annafreud.org/on-my-mind/youth-wellbeing/
To celebrate together Children’s Mental Health Week, we have created a new challenge for children and adults to take part in.
GROWING TOGETHER also means getting out of our comfort zone to learn something new. This develops thinking skills, resilience, adaptability and positive attitude. They are all valuable skills to protect our mental health and wellbeing.
COME SELFREGULATE WITH ME
BREATHING CHALLENGE
Breathing is a very powerful tool to improve and maintain positive mental health.
It can energise you, relax you and give you extra thinking space.
By doing this challenge you will learn 5 different types of breathing techniques.
Watch the video and get practising! You can do it on your own, with friends, with the whole class, with your family or with your pet.
THE RULES
Record yourself by taking a picture, a video or a drawing. You can even write about it or compose a song.
Share your recordings with your teachers.
Miss Ancel and Mrs Pollington will choose 2 winners for Reception, 2 for KS1 and 2 for KS2 on 23rd February 2022.
The winners will be announced on 25th February at Merit Assembly.
THE PRIZE
The winners will take part in an amazing fidget making master class with Miss Ancel and Mrs Pollington.
We will be using food items such as flour, rice, beans ( and lots of balloons) to make stress busting fidgets. Some will be for you to keep , some will be to share with your class.
HAPPY BREATHING!
Mrs Pollington and Miss Ancel
Children’s Mental Health Week
Children’s Mental Health Week is taking place on 7-13 February 2022. This year’s theme is Growing Together.
We will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow.
We all have mental health as we all have a brain and we all feel emotions.
How can we keep mentally healthy?
Through our Zones of Regulation Curriculum we support children and adults developing a common language of emotions and emotional resilience.
This is one way we are growing together.
By developing reflection skills, by learning a range of strategies and a can do approach, we embed positive mental health habits.
Being mentally healthy does not mean having a perfect, easy life but developing the understanding and know how to adapt and bend when the problems arise so we don’t end up broken.
We will be exploring 5 easy steps to lay the foundations of positive mental health and wellbeing and join forces in taking part in a mental health challenge. Watch this space!
