Emotional Health and Wellbeing
Bolton Brow Primary Academy Wellbeing Policy - click here
Open Minds CAMHS workshops: bookable online parent workshops around a variety of relatively common issues. Please click here to find out more & book a place.
Just like everyone has a body, everyone has mental health. It’s not just about mental illness. When children have good levels of wellbeing it helps them to learn and explore the world, feel, express and manage positive and negative emotions and form and maintain good relationships.
At Bolton Brow, we are committed to supporting the wellbeing of everyone in our school community. This page provides information and resources to help support our families.
What is wellbeing?
Emotional wellbeing can be described as:
“A positive state of mind and body, feeling safe and able to cope, with a sense of connection with people, communities and the wider environment”
— NATIONAL CAMHS SUPPORT SERVICE (2011)
At Bolton Brow we: We promote a mentally healthy environment through:
help children to develop emotional resilience and to manage setbacks 1. promoting our school values and encouraging a sense of belonging
help children to understand their emotions and feelings better 2. promoting pupil voice and opportunities to participate in decision-making
help children feel comfortable sharing any concerns or worries 3. celebrating academic and non-academic achievements
help children socially to form and maintain relationships 4. providing opportunities to develop a sense of worth through taking responsibility for themselves and others
promote self-esteem and ensure children know that they count 5. providing opportunities to reflect.
encourage children to be confident and ‘value difference’ 6. access to appropriate support that meets their needs
Resources for families
Relationships Matter - helping families and couples (whether together or separated) understand and build healthy relationships. Click on the link below for more information:
https://relationshipsmatter.org.uk/
Happy family relationships make us all feel good and help our children feel secure and loved. Often as a parent or carer, we are trying to juggle lots of things, and keep our own relationships as positive as can be. Sometimes all relationships can become difficult, and this may impact everyone. Relationships Matter has been created to provide advice, tips, and support to help keep our relationships positive and to support parents and carers.
NEW
They are now promoting a new and FREE App to download to Apple or Android devices, that separating or separated parents may benefit from. The main one being the improvement of communication and better management of their relationships to reduce conflict around children. Click on the link below to find out more:
https://www.oneplusone.org.uk/separating-better
Separating better is a brand-new FREE mobile app, which can help guide you through the separation process, find effective ways of co-parenting, and sort out disagreements, all with the wellbeing of your child in mind.
Wellbeing resources
Support for you and your child with anxiety
Links to further sources of information and support
Worried about a child?
Find out about how we keep children safe and what to do if you have any concerns about the safety of one of our pupils, whether in or outside of school.