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This guide provides actionable strategies to help foster a positive and supportive environment where staff feel valued, energised, and empowered. When staff feel well-supported, they are more engaged, motivated, and able to provide the best outcomes for students.
This tool is designed to give you a brief snapshot of how mentally healthy your school is and to help you prioritise areas for development. This audit tool and the ideas in this guide are taken from ‘The Mentally Health Schools Workbook’ which was written by Dr Pooky Knightsmith, one of Creative Education’s directors.
We hope you find the ideas here helpful and we wish you the best of luck with your journey towards becoming a more mentally healthy school.
When we take steps to meaningfully
engage children and young people in the work we do each day, we are able to adapt our practice, curriculums, approaches and settings to best meet their needs. Whilst children can’t give us all of the answers, taking time to really tune into their voices lets us hear from the expert in our students: the students themselves.
Becoming a trauma informed school is vital because we now recognise that one in three diagnosed mental health problems in adulthood are known to directly relate to childhood traumatic experiences. In this guide, expert Betsy deThierry provides practical steps for schools and colleges who wish to take a trauma informed approach.
This guide, written by Pooky Knightsmith, explores simple steps we can take to promote pupil wellbeing when learning is happening remotely.
When someone significant in a child’s life dies, we find ourselves wanting to help but often don’t know how. The activities I’ve created here are to help you bridge that gap and help you to help a child. This guide has been kindly sponsored by SAPHNA, the school and public health nurses association. You can learn more about SAPHNA’s work and become a member at https://saphna.co
