Wellbeing

Mental Health and Wellbeing

At Seabridge Primary School, we aim to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for our whole school community (children, staff, parents and carers), and recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives in just the same way as physical health. We recognise that children’s mental health is a crucial factor in their overall wellbeing and can affect their learning and achievement. All children go through ups and downs during their school career and some face significant life events.

Over the course of their education, children spend over 7,800 hours at school. With such a huge amount of time spent in the classroom, schools provide an ideal environment for promoting good emotional wellbeing and identifying early behaviour changes and signs of mental distress. At Seabridge, we feel that the social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that young people learn in the classroom can help them to build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their mental health through their lives.

At Seabridge we continuously promote emotional health and mental wellbeing through the following:

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) is central to the curriculum across the school. PSHE assists children to cope with the changes at puberty, introduces them to a wider world, manage transitions and enables them to make an active contribution to their communities.
Mindfulness colouring club
Radio
Choir
Daily sports clubs at lunchtime and after school: Football, Cross country, Netball, Rounders, Badminton, Time4Sport (Alternative Sports, Multiskills), BeeActive (Football, Yoga, Gymnastics)
Chess club
Celebrate differences through assemblies
Healthy snacks
Healthy relationship workshops are delivered by the school nurse and outside charities
TalkTime sessions (lunchtime)
Health and Wellbeing Week focussing on the five ways of wellbeing
Regular wellbeing assemblies covering topics such as coping with stress
Timbertrails on all playgrounds accessed by children during break and lunchtimes
Planned healthy cookery sessions for each year group (1/2 termly)
Planned Forest School sessions (1/2 termly)

Wellbeing Ambassadors

This year we have enrolled Wellbeing Ambassadors in all Key Stage 2 classes. The role of the Wellbeing Ambassador was decided by the team and is shared below:

To spread happiness and peace throughout the school
To welcome new staff and children to the school
To be kind, caring and helpful towards others
To always treat others as you would like to be treated yourself
To promote and put into place the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’. (Connect, Take Notice, Give, Keep Learning and Be Active)
To help plan Wellbeing Week 2020

Useful weblinks

Bereavement

Child Bereavement UK

http://bereavement.lgfl.org.uk/

Suicide

Shout is the UK’s first free 24/7 text service for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere.

https://www.giveusashout.org/

PAPYRUS is the UK charity for the prevention of young suicide (up to the age of 35) . For PAPYRUS HOPELINEUK call 0800 068 4141 (open 10am-10pm weekdays, 2pm -10pm weekends and bank holidays).

https://papyrus-uk.org/

MIND charity

https://www.mind.org.uk/