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#LGfL18 Supporting Mental health and Well being in schools. Dawn Hallybone, Learning Resource Consultant
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Supporting Mental
health and Well being in schools.Dawn Hallybone, Learning Resource Consultant
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What is Mental Health?
The strength and capacity of our
minds to grow and develop, to be
able to overcome difficulties and
challenges and to make the most
of our abilities and opportunities
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Child Mental Health
•A capacity to enter into, and sustain, mutually
satisfying and sustaining personal relationships
•Continuing progression of psychological
development
•An ability to play and to learn so that
attainments are appropriate for age and
intellectual level
•A developing moral sense of right and wrong
•A degree of psychological distress and
maladaptive behaviour within normal limits for
the child’s age and context
•A clear sense of identity and self worth
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charge, Speech and Language Base within a
Primary School
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Schools in Mind
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We can’t always change the things that happen but we can change how
we deal with them.
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#LGfL18 Emotional resilience is about
Never giving up
Hard work
Being honest about how we feel
Understanding our own emotions
Working together
Asking for help when we need it
Learning from our mistakes
Always moving forward
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Coming soon…….
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Section 1 – Developing Resilience – Short Activities for Young PeopleThis section includes a number of short activities that can be used
directly with children and young people to help explore wellbeing andresilience and what things make us feel more resilient.
Section 2 - About Mental Health – Training Resources for StaffThese resources aim to help teachers to get a better understanding
of mental health and emotional wellbeing in children and youngpeople.
Section 3 – No Harm Done – Materials for Staff, Parent and YoungPeopleWe have also included some films and digital packs tackling thedifficult subject of self-harm.
Please note that whilst some of these resources are freely available
through the Young Minds website too, others are only available just
to LGfL schools.
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‘Sensing the now’ – An introductory approach to
mindfulness in the classroom
• Online mindfulness resources including instructional video information and guidance
• To be used with whole class from 5 – 16 years
• Developed with EPs from Tower Hamlets and John Galloway
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‘Sensing the now’ will use a graduated approach to Mindfulness instruction across
six sense-based themes:Movement
SoundTouchTasteSmell Sight
Each theme contains five accessible meditation sessions of increasing length
and varying content.
