HEALTHY MINDS

At Porter Croft C of E Academy, we are part of the Healthy Minds Project in Sheffield. Healthy Minds is a school-based project aims to support the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people. It puts emotional resilience at the heart of children’s health and wellbeing and recognises its impact on their learning, attainment, behaviour and future employability. By providing a stable, nurturing and protective environment, we can help children learn how to regulate their emotions and develop healthy relationships with other children and school staff. These abilities will have a huge impact on their emotional resilience and satisfaction with their lives.

WHAT WE DO TO SUPPORT HEALTHY MINDS?

As a school we have been given techniques to support everyone both teachers and students to be able to identify how they are feeling and techniques to improve our moods.

Each class, from Y2 to Y6, have two healthy Mind Champions. These children have worked with an Educational Psychologist to develop techniques to help regulate ourselves when we are feeling lackluster or calm down when we are feeling over stimulated.

ZONES OF REGULATION

As a whole school we have introduced Zones of regulation which complements the work we have been doing as a Healthy Mind School. Please see our Zones of Regulation area on the website. For more information about the Healthy Minds Project please click here.

CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH WEEK 7-13TH FEBRUARY

Children’s Mental Health Week (CMHW) is due to take place 7th – 13th of February 2022

Please find attached a resource that we have created and also a resource created by Place2Be

Grow together emotion tree

Grow together Primary activities

Storytime happiness activity pack

Also here are some great tips to support parents in the booklet below

Mental Health- tips for parents

Find advice on how to support your child’s #MentalHealth visit #ThisMayHelp This website gives easy-to-follow advice developed by NHS professionals and parents who’ve been through their own child’s mental health journey.