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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 Bingo resource
Sign up for your FREE pack containing a Bingo resource which links with the theme of Children’s Mental Health Week this year (7th – 13th February 2022): Growing Together. The pack includes a GIF version, and a fillable PDF which is perfect for remote learning. Great for schools and children anywhere in the world!
Follow this link to claim your pack.
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Mental Health Check-In Board Template
A mental health and wellbeing check-in board template for your students, for daily or weekly use, to monitor how they are feeling in terms of their mental health and emotions, and to help identify those in need of extra support for their emotional wellbeing. Taken from our fully planned evidence-informed student programmes. Instructions: students write their name on the back of the sticky note, underneath the sticky part (for privacy reasons, so that they feel more comfortable sharing their true feelings). Mental Health Check-in Board
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Teacher self-care reminder
A self-care wellbeing reminder for teachers, school leaders and other school staff. The 'occupational phenomenon' of burnout has now been confirmed as a major international concern within education according to recent research, and is one of if not the highest predictor of teachers' intentions to leave the profession. Systemic change, together with self-care techniques, are so important for teacher and educator mental health and wellbeing. Please feel free to share this resource on social media if you wish. PDF version: Rest self-care reminder PDF GIF version (right click and 'Save image as...'): Rest self-care reminder GIF For more resources and teacher wellbeing tips, download our FREE Teacher and Staff Wellbeing Toolkit resource pack.
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Sample of Ages 7-13 Mental Health Skills Programme
Receive a FREE sample download containing 3 weeks of content from our Ages 7-13 Mental Health Skills Programme (18 weeks in total) to improve mental health and wellbeing in schools. Download 3 weeks of lesson plans, PowerPoints with audio and animated GIF instruction, posters, PDF worksheets and homework. Your free sample will contain Week 3 (Mindfulness skills unit), Week 11 (Emotion Regulation skills unit) and Week 16 (Emotion Regulation skills unit) content for you to peruse. Click here for your free sample.
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Stress Bucket
This Stress Bucket printable worksheet / poster provides a visual aid for understanding the build-up of stress and worries. It's a key resource for helping improve mental health in schools. We recommend that children use this Stress Bucket sheet together with the "35 Healthy Coping Skills poster" in the FREE Stress Awareness Month pack, to help learn emotion regulation skills to reduce levels of stress they may experience. Alternatively, download just this Stress Bucket PDF here: My Stress Bucket sheet
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Self-Compassion Poster
This cartoon poster is taken from our fully planned comprehensive programmes, and contains tips and reminders for practising mindful self-compassion and kindness to oneself, to help improve mental health in schools. Self-compassion is a key skill, and this sheet is an ideal visual resource for students and staff alike, to help cultivate practices that improve children's wellbeing, as well as the wellbeing of teachers and staff.
Loving Kindness and Compassion to Self Poster
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Child & Staff Wellbeing visual aid
A trauma-informed infographic containing key things which schools can try to focus on through the pandemic and beyond in order to promote and safeguard children's mental health and emotional wellbeing, as well as staff and teacher wellbeing. Please feel free to share this resource on social media if you wish. PDF version: Child Teacher Staff Wellbeing PDF Animated GIF version (right click and 'Save image as...'): Child Teacher Staff Wellbeing GIF
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