Health and Wellbeing
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Your School Community
Ask the questions that show how mentally healthy your school really is, then pick a small change you can make from your own role.
- 1 hour 12 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Judge how warm and welcoming your school feels to someone walking in
- Use "how are you times two" to get honest answers in the staffroom
- Draw parents in with child-led invitations and events they'll want to attend
- Check that quieter pupils have a trusted adult who sees and hears them
- Signpost help where people will see it, including toilet doors
About this course
Walk into some schools and you can tell within minutes whether people are looking after each other. The harder part is knowing what you're picking up on, and what to do when your own school isn't there yet.
You'll get a set of questions that turn that gut feeling into something you can act on, such as whether staff, parents and pupils feel seen and heard. Each comes with something simple to try. Ask "how are you?" twice when a colleague says "fine". Set up proud pegs where pupils clip up something they're proud of, from home as well as school. Put helpline posters on the back of every toilet door, where a struggling pupil can read them unseen.
You'll finish knowing where your school's gaps are, with a first step for each, whether you lead on mental health or support it day to day.
- For governors, middle leaders and senior leaders. All phases.
Recording
- 73 min
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