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Mental Health and Wellbeing at St. Paul's

Our mental health and wellbeing at St. Paul's is theologically rooted:

1 Corinthians 13:13

Love yourself, Love others and live well

At St. Paul's we have a special approach to supporting children and the school community with their Mental Health and Wellbeing. We want to give our community faith that we can support mental health; hope that those receiving this nurture and care will find light in their lives to shine and make a difference to themselves and others; and ultimately be able to floursih and learn how to love to live well.

This is strongly rooted iin our Vision particularly spiritually, where we want to help our children to love themselves, to love each other and live well. We aim to encourage all children to be resilient, confident, kind and conscientious individuals who celebrate their differences and can support each other positively through their school journey.

Our school Mental Health and Well Being Team is:

Overall Mental Health Lead: Mrs H Henderson(Head teacher)

Senior Mental Health Lead: Mrs H Green (Deputy Head Teacher and Messy Play lead)

Pastoral Leads: N Ahmed (LSA and TISUK practitioner including ELSA)

H Anderson (pasotral intervention primarily for SEMH and ASC pupils

interventions: S Voaden (messy play)

S Pearce (Art therpay)

H Hildtich (Pet therapy)

H Henderson (Music therapy)

Safeguarding Team:

Senior Designated Safeguarding Lead - Mrs H henderson

Other DSL's: Mrs H GreenMrs H Hilditch

EYFS DSL: Miss K Vinter

Governor for Safeguarding: Mrs J Wright

The Dfe's guide to the eight principles of an effective whole lschool approach to mental health and wellbeing that we folow at St. Paul's

Our Mental Health Vision at St. Paul's

TOGETHER

Agencies, children staff and parents work together and feel the importance of being a family team with a joint goal towards a positive mindset and an understanding of how to support each other with their mental health.

GROWING

Children learn to grow with a better understanding about themselves spiritually and to understand the imortance of loving themselves and others through honesty, forgiveness, self-control , patience and humility.(Fruits of the spirit). They learn the importance of making mistakes and using resilience to manage difficult situations.

LOVE

Children learn to understand the imiportance of giving and receiving love; how this makes others feel and the iimpact this special spiritual understanding of themselves can have.

LEARN

Cildren will learn how to be resilient, caring and emotionally mature individuals. They will learn about their feelings, their zones of regulationi and how to treat others with respect by learning to respect themeselves first. They learn to be role models to others and how to demonstrate positive ways to deal with emotions.

SHINE

All children should feel they are valued,loved and respected. We help our children to become confident in themselves, to celebrate their achievements no matter how small and to be given the opportunity to share their positivity with others. All interventions to support mental health promote positive wellbeing and provide children with a deeper understanding about their emotions relating to different parts of their lives so they can learn to shine.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

The school's apporach to mental health and wellbeing is to support our families and makae a difference to their emotinal outlook about themselves ad others. Our interventions, personal support and nurture are carefully structured and managed so that every child is considered unique and individual and therefore are responded to with personal love and care to enable our children to flourish.

Further support document can be found HERE

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Thrive model. How we use this approach to support our school community and promote positive mental health

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The next mental health awareness week 2024 is 21-24th May 2024

The theme is ' Anxiety'

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/event/mental-health-awareness-week-2024#:~:text=May%2015%2C%202024%20%2D%20May%2021%2C%202024&text=In%20the%20UK%2C%20Mental%20Health,on%20providing%20help%20and%20advice.

The next mental health awareness week is 15th-21st may 2023

The theme is 'Anxiety'

https://mentalhealth-uk.org/mental-health-awareness-week/

The next Mental Health Awareness week is 10-16th May 2021

The theme is ' Connect with Nature'

Please find out more on this link:

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week

Child Mental Health Awareness week: 1st - 9th February 2021

Please view this fantastic Resource for mental Health awareness week.

The theme is Express Yourself

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/news/children-s-mental-health-week-2021-resources-available-now/

Origami is a great resource for well-being. Try some of these activities here: