Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing
At Coppice Primary School, we aim to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for our whole school community (children, staff, parents and carers), and recognise that mental health and emotional wellbeing is as important in our lives as our physical health.
Children’s mental health is a crucial factor in their overall wellbeing and can affect their learning and achievement. Children can face difficulties from time to time with some facing significant life events during their school journey.
We take a whole school approach to promoting positive mental health that aims to help children become more resilient, happy and successful and to prevent problems before they arise.
This includes
- Creating an ethos through our CARE values, policies and behaviours that support mental health and resilience, and which everyone understands.
- Helping children to develop social relationships, support each other and seek help when they need it.
- Helping children to be resilient learners.
- Teaching children social and emotional skills and an awareness of mental health.
- Early identification of children who have mental health needs and planning support to meet their needs, including working with specialist services.
- Effectively working with parents and carers including providing opportunities to develop their own knowledge and understanding around emotional wellbeing and mental health.
- Supporting and training staff to develop their skills and their own resilience.
We also recognise the role that stigma can play in preventing understanding and awareness of mental health issues. We therefore aim to create an open and positive culture that encourages discussion and understanding of these issues.
Mindfulness
What is the Derbyshire Research Mindfulness Project?
To find out more go to Psychology for Children
Children learning through Mindfulness:
Take a look at some of our ideas to support your child displaying anxiety
/docs/Coppice_Anxiety_Guide.pdf
https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/schools/primary-school/mindfulness-hub/
https://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-for-kids/
Useful contacts for mental Health and Wellbeing:
Emotional Support Helplines for Children and Young People
If you don't feel you are ready to speak to someone face to face just yet, then you can find information online and help, support and advice from the following places:
Derbyshire Mental Health Support Line - 0800 028 0077 - Open 24/7.
Childline - 0800 1111 - Free confidential helpline for children and young people and online chat .
Samaritans - 116 123 - Free helpline 24 hours per day Email: jo@samaritans.org - Emotional support if experiencing distress, despair or suicidal thoughts.
Kooth - Free, safe and anonymous mental health and emotional wellbeing online support for young people aged 11 to 25.
BEAT - Student line: 0808 801 0811 - Youth line: 0808 801 0711 - Helpline: 0808 801 0677 and web chat. Information, help and support if you are affected by eating disorders.
First Steps Derbyshire - Derbyshire's only eating disorders charity, supporting people affected by eating difficulties and disorders.
Young Minds - Text YM to 85258 – Free 24/7. For young people looking for support and needing urgent help with their mental health.Free Parent helpline: 0808 802 5544 - Young Minds Parents Webchat.
Papyrus - Hopeline UK helpline: 0800 068 41 41Text: 07860 039967 or email pat@papyrus-uk.org. Confidential support and advice to young people under 35, experiencing thoughts of suicide and to anyone worried about a young person at risk of suicide.
Self-harm UK - Information and support around self-harm including an online support group.
Safespeak - Safe Speak – Relate
A Confidential Counselling Service run by Relate for Children and Young People
Hope Again helpline: Freephone 0808 808 1677 for young people from Cruse Bereavement Team.
Child Bereavement UK helpline: 0800 02 888 40
Email: helpline@childbereavementuk.org