I am the SEMH Lead in a secondary school in Northamptonshire with a passion for promoting a mental health curriculum that is accessible for any educational setting.
I create complete programmes of study and one-off sessions for your unique setting including corresponding resources and progress tracking aids.
If you are looking for an outstanding whole-school approach to SEMH, please get in touch for advice, guidance or access to a multitude of SEMH programmes, strategies and resources.
I am the SEMH Lead in a secondary school in Northamptonshire with a passion for promoting a mental health curriculum that is accessible for any educational setting.
I create complete programmes of study and one-off sessions for your unique setting including corresponding resources and progress tracking aids.
If you are looking for an outstanding whole-school approach to SEMH, please get in touch for advice, guidance or access to a multitude of SEMH programmes, strategies and resources.
This is a mindfulness activity that aims to broaden students’ understanding of safe mobile phone usage, with a particular focus on downloadable apps. This activity empowers young people to think differently about the kind of apps they may download onto their devices and instead create apps that promote wellbeing and self-care.
This is a short, reflective activity that promotes critical thinking and peer discussion that will engage students considering their own thoughts and feelings in a range of situations.
The prompt cards can be cut out and asked by peers if working in a small group or students can work independently if in a 1:1 setting to work through each card.
The activity can be adapted as necessary.
This activity empowers students to use real-life scenarios to create a social media post that they would actually post on their feed.
This worksheet explores a range of scenario based questioning, enabling students to consider and explore how they might react in each situation/ what they might do.
This activity creates fantastic peer discussion opportunities and is also a great way to get a better understanding of the interests of the students you are working with.
This activity helps students to navigate their way around the Facebook app safely, using a range of commonly used functions, such as ‘check-ins’, 'hashtags’and ‘emojis’.
Students will use this activity to create a post that either inspire their younger selves a younger generation.
Students will be able to reflect on the first thing they might have posted and how they would feel if they were to read it a number of year later.
This is a short exercise that has been designed to generate high quality peer discussions.
This is a short exercise aimed at coaching young people on appropriate social media usage through using a range of scenario-based questioning.
This activity can be used to generate high quality peer discussion, hot seating opportunities and extended writing tasks.
This resource can be used as part of a whole-school activity for Children’s mental health week or as a one of activity to help students engage and discuss any feelings they are keeping inside.
Students should think about all of the feelings they are bottling up, these could be, worry, fear, loss etc. Students can also think about how this might look when those feelings fizz/spill out- does this look like angry outbursts, crying, self-isolating.
This is a safe and non-invasive method of promoting a basis for talk therapy. Students can work independently, in a 1:1 setting with a teacher or in a small group to complete this activity.
This is a short festive activty to complete with mixed age range/ability groups.
Students have to think of gifts of kindness that they could give to someone they care about.
Students can embellish and colour these worksheets to create a beautiful festive display.
This activity is a great opportunity for students to reflect on things that they are grateful for.
Students can get creative and decorate/ embellish each bauble with festive patterns and designs.
This is an A3 self-care activity for students to complete during the festive period.
Students need to make 25 self-care/ mindful promises for each day leading up to Christmas.
Students can write or draw into each window of the calendar or a combination of both. This can then be coloured in or decorated in festive colours, glitter etc.
Teacher can print to A4 or enlarge as necessary.
A useful tool to aid teachers and support staff who are delivering SEMH intervention to monitor and track sessional progress.
This spreadsheet allows you to enter a session-by-session RAG record of how students have accessed the intervention, with options to add further steps/ steps for future learnings.
You can then use this record to create a complete overview of their time on the programme, which can then be used as supporting evidence to signpost onto additional interventions if necessary.
School leaders may also use this as a prompt to use for meetings with parents or external services so underpin specific areas where specialist or targeted support is required.
This tracker can be edited to facilitate/ reflect your provision’s unique requirements.
This booklet has been put together as a whole-school resource for Children’s mental health week.
This can be printed and used during tutor times/ assemblies/ personal development lessons.
The booklet contains. a wide range of mindful activities, grounding techniques, advice and tips for managing mental health and well in school.
A complete programme of support for young people to develop confidence and social safety online.
The programme is complete with a scheme of work, worksheets and recommended extension tasks.
This resource is the ‘Bible’ that all Year 11 students need in preparation for their GCSEs.
Packed with useful, tips, tricks and advice on topics like time management, organisation and strategies to manage exam-nerves. Students will feel prepared and in control when exam season arrives.
This handbook also contains a wealth of mindful activities, prompts and accountability boosting activities that will build your students’ resilience. help them manage their stress and equip them with the tools to excel in their exams.
This complete intervention programme will provide up to 12 weeks’ worth of supportive study for students who are experiencing identity or gender worries or issues.
This programme of study has been carefully compiled to to empower students with up-to-date knowledge, advice and guidance.
Students and young people undergoing this programme of study will explore a wide range of person-centred activities that boost self-esteem and individuality. Students will gain confidence in understanding their own bodies and feelings and be able to identify the correct channels to access support.
This programme of study is complete with suggested starter activities, extension tasks and ‘big questions’. The resources are beautifully coordinated to represent inclusivity, with hidden messages and uplifting affirmations.
The programme of study can adapted to be used on a 1:1 basis, in small groups, as part of tutor time sessions or even in assemblies.
If you are looking for a whole-school approach to LGBT intervention, which can be differentiated for primary students all the way up to further educational settings, this is the perfect toolkit to use with your young people.