How to Support Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

Mental health and wellbeing go hand-in-hand and are not only central to promoting effective learning and future successful, independent living, they are ESSENTIAL for helping children and young people develop and thrive.

Focusing on improving a child’s mental health and wellbeing will help them to cope with key life events such as stress, trauma and physical ill-health. Not only are children with better mental wellbeing more likely to be engaged in lessons, better behaved and make more progress but they are also more likely to deal better with stressful events and recover more quickly from illness.

Our Book Talk & Mood Boosting Bingo resources were created to support our blog post How to Support Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools, read the full blog post here

The article looks at questions such as:

• Why is mental health and wellbeing more important than ever?
• What is the difference between wellbeing, mental health and physical health?
• What does good mental health and wellbeing look like for children?
• What does poor mental health and wellbeing look like?
• How do you measure a child’s wellbeing?
• How can health and wellbeing be supported in school?
• What can be done to support mental health and wellbeing outside of school?