Mental Health and Well-being for Families
Our mental health and wellbeing vision
Springmead School is committed to promoting and protecting emotional wellbeing and mental health in our school. Our overall aim is to help children and adults develop resilience and coping strategies to support their overall wellbeing; now and in the future. We will make this happen by:
- Effectively working with parents and carers to forge a strong partnership, including providing opportunities to develop their own knowledge and understanding around emotional wellbeing and mental health.
- Helping children to become resilient learners through supportive strategies including strategies to help regulation
- Teaching children, through our ‘Personal Health and Social Education’ (PHSE) curriculum, the social and emotional skills to support their positive mental health and wellbeing.
- Early identification of support for children who have mental health needs, to support them. This includes working with multi-agencies and specialist services.
- Supporting staff to develop their skills and resilience.
- Recognising the stigmas surrounding mental health issues. The school works hard to create an open and positive culture in our whole school community.
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A short video outlining the help our School Family Worker Service can give our families.
For more information or to refer to the service click on the link above.
School Nursing Service - HCT
This video is about HCT's School Nursing Service.
Children and Young People's Digital Wellbeing Service
10 mental health tips for parents
How to relax | 8 relaxation tips for your mental health
Exploring relaxation can help you look after your wellbeing when you're feeling stressed or busy. Have a look at these tips and ideas to see how relaxation c...
A link to the mind.org website and advice to improve personal wellbeing
A leading UK mental health support database provided by the charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place using an easy postcode and subject search.
The National Sleep Helpline 03303 530 541
The National Sleep Helpline helps anyone with sleep issues including adults, parents and young people. The helpline is available from 7pm and 9pm, Sunday to Thursday on 03303 530 541.
Poor sleep can affect anyone and it can be a major stress for parents whose own sleep can be impaired by their children's difficulties getting to sleep, staying asleep or staying in their own bed, leading to greater stress.
Having a sleep issue is surprisingly common. At any given time this affects up to 40% of adults and 50% of children (this rises to 80% with a SEND diagnosis). These problems are typically persistent and do not resolve themselves without intervention. Contact the National Sleep Helpline to nip sleep issues in the bud.
Flyers_ParentsWebinars from the NHS Foundation Trust
A selection of webinars aiming to provide educational and practical help to support you to learn relevant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to make positive change in your life.
Healthier Together in Hertfordshire
Healthier Together website for child health information The new NHS ‘Healthier Together’ website provides clear, reliable local health information and advice for parents and young people
Developing A Growth Mindset - a good clip to watch with your child and to discuss how they can have a growth mindset at school.
This is a story of two seeds - both planted on the same day, in the same soil, in the same garden bed. One has a growth mindset-with a curious desire to grow...
Young Minds Crisis Messenger
The YoungMinds Crisis Messenger text service provides free, 24/7 crisis support across the UK. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text YM to 85258.
We know that finding the right support is important, especially if you need someone to talk to right now. We aim to connect every texter to a trained volunteer promptly to provide crisis help. They will listen to you and help you think more clearly, enabling you to know that you can take the next step to feeling better.
It is free and confidential to text our service from the following major networks:
EE, O2, Three and Vodafone.
These include - BT Mobile, Tesco Mobile, Virgin Mobile, iD Mobile, Sky, Telecom Plus, Lebara and GiffGaff. Some Android phones issue a warning that you will be charged for texting us, provided you are on one of these networks this warning is incorrect and you will not be charged. If you text us from a network that is not on this list there is a possibility that you may be charged for the messages and that they may appear on your bill, this is because some networks do not provide the capability to message short codes.
For more information: https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/get-urgent-help/youngminds-crisis-messenger/#youngminds-crisis-messenger
Useful websites
MindEd Hub MindEd is a free educational resource on children and young people's mental health for all adults
Every Mind Matters Feeling stressed, anxious, low or struggling to sleep? Every Mind Matters and One You can help with expert advice and practical tips. Start the fightback to a healthier you today.
We All Have Mental Health
Talking Mental Health
Talking Mental Health is an animation designed to help begin conversations about mental health in the classroom and beyond.The animation and accompanying res...