Whole School Approach

We offer a range of support to develop your whole school approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health.

8 principles wheel

We offer a range of support to develop and enhance your whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing for school staff, senior leaders and governors, parents and carers, children and young people.

We can provide bespoke whole school approach activities to meet the needs of your setting as well as offer a universal offer that will enhance each of the 8 areas of the wheel.

  • We provide psychoeducational workshops exploring mental health and emotional wellbeing themes including sleep, transition, self-care, anxiety, and exam stress. Thought-Full staff are able to lead and to attend assemblies to promote the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) and broader mental health awareness you would like to focus on for your community need.

    We can support student-led engagement projects to contribute to your whole school approach around developing peer to peer support for wellbeing.

    There is training for pupil Mental Health Ambassadors for both primary and secondary settings. The training consists of 2 sessions, or one full day training and the areas covered are:

    • what is wellbeing?
    • understanding common mental health difficulties
    • listening skills
    • safeguarding
    • 5 ways to wellbeing
    • understanding local services

  • Our CPD workshops cover a range of themes within mental health and wellbeing:

    • sleep hygiene – building routines to support children & young people and their families
    • stress & trauma – exploring the signs and supportive approaches
    • self-compassion – creating a nurturing environment for all
    • building resilience for all within the school/ college setting
    • selective mutism – situational speaking when to intervene
    • emotion coaching an approach for staff to support wellbeing and resilience

    We aim to create a safe and supportive ethos and environment in schools which respects diversity and inclusion, including supporting schools to support LGBTQ+, autistic and BAME pupils.

  • We offer psychoeducational based workshops which aim to be interactive for parents and carers for both primary and secondary young people.

    Themes include:

    • supporting your child with fears and worries
    • exploring anxious feelings
    • emotion coaching for parents
    • coping with transitions – support for parents
    • the teenage brain
    • exam stress
    • talking to teens about mental health and wellbeing

    We also have opportunities for parents to talk with practitioners at open evenings, parent evenings, coffee mornings and a range of drop-ins that the school supports.