Health and Wellbeing
Support Your Primary School Pupils Experiencing Mental Health Issues
Build a mental health offer for your primary school with the staff and budget you already have, and know where your role ends.
- 31 minutes
- 8 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Find time, staff and funding for mental health work without a big budget
- Spot pupils who need support, using what you notice and tools like the Boxall Profile
- Use emotional registers and worry boxes to make mental health normal to talk about
- Plan support that steps up from check-ins to targeted interventions
- Recognise when a child needs specialist help, and point families towards it
About this course
You can usually tell when a child in your class isn't themselves. Knowing what to do next, with no spare budget and no specialist on the staff, is the hard part. A primary headteacher who built a full mental health offer on very little money shows how to start small.
The ideas cost little. Try three minutes of guided meditation straight after playtime, or free a teaching assistant for one afternoon a week to check in with children who need a bit of TLC. An emotional register on the classroom whiteboard makes feelings an everyday topic, and you'll see how support steps up through pastoral care to interventions such as ELSA.
You'll also know where the school's job stops, when a family needs the GP or CAMHS, and how to push back if an outside agency asks more than your staff can safely do.
- For early career teachers, governors and 4 other roles. Primary.
8 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 3 min
Wrap up
- 8 min
Finding capacity
- 4 min
Identifying not diagnosing
- 6 min
Pupil & parent involvement
- 5 min
Early help in school
- 4 min
Bespoke support
- 4 min
Signposting to external services