Children's Mental Heath
At Pakefield Primary School we ensure children learn about their mental health, what this is, means, how and where to get help. . This will allow our children to fully thrive and achieve their ambitions.
We decided what was of most importance and these are the key areas that we believe are key to supporting good mental health and wellbeing:
- Emotions
- Sleep
- Physical activity
- Eat and drink healthily
- Screen time
- Talk time and positive interactions
- Managing positive friendships
- Hobbies
As a school we will be working on these over the year through circle time, assemblies and within our daily curriculum offer. Throughout the year we will also have awareness days or weeks where more focus will be placed on mental health.
The Senior Mental Health Lead is – Mrs Rachel Carman
The Mental Health First Aider is – Mrs S Bacon
If you would like any further information, please speak to Mrs Carman or Mrs Rodwell, or alternatively take a look at the following websites.
What is mental health?
This video helps parents and school staff explain what mental health is to children.
Please click on images to get to the following websites:
Wellbeing Hub
Just One Norfolk
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