Session Overview
Mentally Healthy Schools: A whole school approach to mental health & inclusion
A mentally healthy, inclusive school isn’t built overnight, it grows through consistent, intentional actions taken across the whole setting. Using a practical, evidence-informed framework, we’ll look at what’s working well in your setting, tackle what’s not, and share small, powerful ideas that drive real, sustainable change.
We’ll focus on six key areas:
- Creating a culture where staff are happy and healthy
- Making sure the setting feels safe and welcoming to all
- Enabling every learner to feel heard and understood
- Identifying and supporting vulnerable learners early and well
- Building positive, meaningful engagement with families
- Embedding a culture where help is sought when needed
This 90-minute session is part workshop, part action planning – you’ll start creating your own action plans and you’ll leave with a clear sense of direction and the tools and ideas to keep building on your plans after our time together.
Resources
Here are some further resources that complement the session
Here are some further resources you might find helpful to build on the session:
- BOOK: The Mentally Healthy Schools Workbook
- DOWNLOAD: Domains of safety worksheet
- DOWNLOAD: Feeling safe, calm and happy worksheet
- DOWNLOAD: All about me sheet to enable child-centred meetings
- GUIDE: Getting to Why – Ideas for Asking and Listening
- VIDEO: How we talk about children really matters… here’s why
- VIDEO: ANXIETY HACK | Share it, Shelf it, Shout it, Shed it
- BITESIZE CPD: Autistic Friendly Classrooms (slides & video walkthrough)
- BITESIZE CPD: EBSA/School Anxiety – Starting the Day Right
- VIDEO: Five Steps to Being a Better Listener
- PODCAST: Enabling Children to Feel Seen and Heard
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