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Mental Health

We will be celebrating World Mental Health Day - Thursday 10th October 2024!

To celebrate, we will be asking all children to come into school dressed in yellow to support #helloyellow and raise money for mental health charities.

Check back in to find out all of the fun things we do to support the day!

At Woodland Community Primary School, we use myHappymind to help create a positive mental wellbeing culture where children can build resilience, self-esteem, and character. myHappymind uses the latest research, science and technology to help children develop lifelong habits and learn to thrive.

myHappymind is taught across the whole school in weekly sessions, and consists of 5 units:

Meet Your Brain – Learning about how our brains work.

Celebrate – Understanding our character strengths and celebrating ourselves.

Appreciate – Developing gratitude as a habit.

Relate – Building positive relationships.

Engage – Engaging with the world.

Look out for more information, pictures and quotes from the children as we roll out myHappymind across our school.

Happiness Heroes for 2024 - 2025 have been decided!

Mikey	Y1 – Holly
Poppy	Y1 – Beech
Lilie-Mae S	Y1 – Oak
Ella	Y2 – Aspen
Luke	Y2 – Hawthorn
Wiktoria	Y2 – Birch
Claudia	Y3 - Maple
Amelia	Y3 – Cherry
Maisy	Y3 – Yew
Sam	Y4 – Hazel
Ronnie-Mae	Y4 – Elm
Ameliya	Y4 – Juniper
Matylda	Y5 – Rowan
Archie	Y5 – Willow
Kai	Y5 – Ash
Leighton	Y6 – Sycamore
Ruby	Y6 - Spruce
Aaron	Y6 - Cedar

Woodland Community Primary School continues to ensure that the mental health and wellbeing of our students is a top priority we have appointed a member of the teaching staff to act as the Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead and representative for our students.

In support of this, Youth Mental Health First Aid Training has been completed by two members of the Inclusion Team and further training is to be considered. Our Mental Health & Wellbeing Lead is working collaboratively alongside the members of the Inclusion Team to implement a whole school offer for Mental Health and Wellbeing that will act as thorough guidance and policy to support the teaching and therefore learning of all students.

The delivery of Place2be sessions continue on a weekly basis where identified children are supported through 1:1 play and mental heath support. We continue to deliver

additional support session such as Drawing and Talking Therapy and Wellbeing Dominoes.

CPD continues to be considered for all staff at school who support children with additional mental health and well-being needs. Teachers and Teaching assistants have received a range of CPD (provided by the Local Authority) such as 5 ways to Wellbeing, Social Stories, Separation Anxiety and Comic Strip Sessions.

Further training will continue throughout the academic year to fully support and reinforce the interventions that are being planned throughout school.