Emotional Health and Mental Well-being

Over the course of their education, children spend over 7,800 hours at school.  With such a huge amount of time spent in the classroom, schools provide an ideal environment for promoting good emotional well-being and identifying early behaviour changes and signs of mental distress. The social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that young people learn in the classroom can help them to build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their mental health throughout their lives.  Emotional wellbeing is a clear indicator of academic achievement, success and satisfaction in later life. Evidence shows that mental health and wellbeing programmes in schools, can lead to significant improvements in children’s mental health, and social and emotional skills. Well-being provision in schools can also lead to reductions in classroom misbehaviour and bullying.

At Gosforth we recognise that supporting the well-being of our children, families and staff is vitally important. We hope you will find the links and documents below useful. If you need any additional support, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher or contact our Senior Mental Health lead Mrs Sarah Layzell.

NHS: Top Tips to Improve Your Mental Wellbeing

Anna Freud: Self care for parents and carers

Psychology Cumbria: Mindfulness

Mindline Cumbria: Resources

BBC: Parent's toolkit