Wellbeing

Mental Health and Wellbeing

At Seabridge Primary School, we aim to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for our whole school community (children, staff, parents and carers), and recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives in just the same way as physical health. We recognise that children’s mental health is a crucial factor in their overall wellbeing and can affect their learning and achievement. All children go through ups and downs during their school career, and some face significant life events. 

Over the course of their education, children spend over 7,800 hours at school. With such a huge amount of time spent in the classroom, schools provide an ideal environment for promoting good emotional well-being and identifying early behaviour changes and signs of mental distress. At Seabridge, we feel that the social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that young people learn in the classroom can help them to build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their mental health through their lives. 

At Seabridge, we continuously promote emotional health and mental wellbeing through the following:

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) is central to the curriculum across the school. PSHE assists children to cope with the changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world, manage transitions and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities.

Mindfulness club

Daily sports clubs at lunchtime and after school: Football, Cross country, Netball, Rounders, Badminton, Art, German, Creative Crafts etc.

Chess club

Celebrate differences and diversity through the promote of our value ‘uniqueness’ e.g. in assembly, through our positive point rewards linked to our behaviour tracking etc.

Healthy snacks

Healthy relationship workshops are delivered by the school nurse and outside charities

TalkTime sessions (lunchtime)

Health and Wellbeing Week focussing on the five ways of wellbeing

Regular wellbeing assemblies covering topics such as coping with stress

Timbertrails on all playgrounds accessed by children during break and lunchtimes

Planned healthy cookery sessions for each year group (1/2 termly)

Promoting Positive Mental Health - 5 Ways to Wellbeing

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At Seabridge, we recognise that personal development and academic success go hand in hand. As a result, positive physical and mental health is important, and just like any other skill, it is something which requires us to work hard to acquire.

One useful source of guidance is the NHS programme ‘The ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’. This is an evidence-based framework that promotes our positive wellbeing. It is widely used in the NHS to promote mental wellbeing, and we can use it to help us too in school and at home.

Here are the five top tips you can use to support your wellbeing:

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Here are ways we are promoting the 5 Ways to Wellbeing in School:

Connect

Promoting our school motto, ‘Working together to be the best we can’

Think-pair-share in lessons

Paired work and group work

PSHE lessons

Social time

Social events in school e.g. discos etc

Community events such as our ‘Firework Spectacular’

Nurture/small group intervention

Assembly time

Reading buddies

Links with places of worship such carol concerts

Be Active

PE curriculum

Extra-curricular clubs

Opportunities to compete in intra and inter sporting competitions

Brain breaks

Enrichment activities like sports themed days

Leadership – sports leaders promoting being active on the playground

Fitness Friday

Take Notice

Assessment for Learning and improvement time

Celebrations assembly

Pupil leaders – giving certificates in assembly

Mindfulness activities

Restorative approach to support reflection and regulation

Spotting patterns across the curriculum e.g. in Maths and Science

Keep Learning

School culture and ethos– promoting a passion for learning

School Value ‘Ambition’

Enrichment activities e.g. school trips, themed days

Music lessons

Extra-curricular clubs

Give

School motto, ‘Learning together to be the bets we can’

Pupil Leadership roles

Celebrating success in assembly

Positive point rewards, linked to our behaviour policy

Reading buddies

Charity work and raising money for charity e.g. Macmillan Breakfast

Collecting for the foodbank e.g. Harvest

Participating in or creating community events e.g. ‘Firework Spectacular’

Promoting Positive Mental Health – Specialist Support

We all know that life can offer a range of challenges and hurdles that can sometimes be difficult to overcome. This can be the same for children. The NHS have created a wellbeing site for parents to visit with a wealth of information to support your children:

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On this platform, for can find advice about how to support children with a range of challenges and need including (but not limited to):

• Anger

• Anxiety

• Behaviour

• Eating Problems

• Family Relationships

• Sleep Health

• Trauma

If you feel like your child requires additional support for their wellbeing, please do get in touch. We work with a range of services, including CAMHS and Staywell, which prove to be an excellent support for many young people’s wellbeing.

Useful weblinks

Bereavement

Child Bereavement UK

http://bereavement.lgfl.org.uk/

Suicide

Shout is the UK’s first free 24/7 text service for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere.

https://www.giveusashout.org/

PAPYRUS is the UK charity for the prevention of young suicide (up to the age of 35) . For PAPYRUS HOPELINEUK call 0800 068 4141 (open 10am-10pm weekdays, 2pm -10pm weekends and bank holidays).

https://papyrus-uk.org/

MIND charity

https://www.mind.org.uk/