Health and Wellbeing
How Can You Work Towards a Mentally Healthy School?
Build a mentally healthy school from the why outwards, with a vision your staff, governors and families helped to write.
- 29 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Use "start with why" to plan your mental health work in the right order
- Gather staff, governor, pupil and parent views to write a shared vision
- Build a values-based ethos that shows up in how people treat each other
- Find champions in your community to help lead the work
- Choose up to three priorities and give them realistic timescales
About this course
Every school has seen an initiative launch with a fanfare and fizzle out once the hard work starts. Mental health is too important to go the same way.
Start with why, as Simon Sinek puts it, and the rest falls into a sensible order. You'll ask staff, governors, pupils and parents what a mentally healthy school looks like, and turn their answers into a vision they own. Then you'll put the how in place: trust, clear communication, champions from your own community and a pace people can keep up with. Only then do you pick what to act on, with no more than three priorities to start.
The approach comes from a former headteacher who built a values-based school this way. You'll be ready for what slows it down, too, from change fatigue to a leadership team stretched thin.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. Early years, primary, secondary and special.
Recording
- 30 min
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