Health and Wellbeing
Provide A Whole School Mental Health Offer in Primary School
Pull scattered mental health work into one whole school offer that your staff, governors, parents and pupils actually get behind.
- 34 minutes
- 8 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Set mental health principles that fit the issues your school actually faces
- Win staff support with evidence, good training and a committed lead
- Bring governors on board and work patiently with sceptical parents
- Run a termly pupil voice conference and feed the results back
- Keep your offer going by planning for the implementation dip
About this course
Awareness days and a trained TA or two are a good start. Turning them into something the whole school owns is harder, especially with a sceptical colleague in the staffroom and a parent who's convinced you're prying into family business.
A primary headteacher who has done this in her own school shows you how. You'll set principles around your school's real issues, such as whatever sits behind poor attendance, and win over the hardest-to-convince teacher with your own data. You'll bring governors into the work and handle wary parents with patience rather than pressure. A termly pupil voice conference, run in a single afternoon, makes sure children are heard too.
To keep it going, start with a small change that wins quick support, and plan for the dip in enthusiasm that every new initiative hits.
- For governors, middle leaders and senior leaders. Primary.
8 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 2 min
Wrap up
- 3 min
Getting started
- 5 min
Getting staff buy-in
- 6 min
Stakeholder engagement
- 6 min
Children’s voice
- 9 min
Creating a culture for mental health
- 6 min
Whole school offer