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Improve your pupils' mental and physical health with impactful strategies to deepen your school wellbeing culture and curriculum
#oeWellbeing
Module 1: Wednesday 11 May 13:00-15:30 BST
Chaired by Nina Jackson, SEND, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant
Starting the conversation (13:00)
Learn effective techniques that will help you navigate opening an important dialogue with your students
Malarvilie Krishnasamy, Leadership Consultant, Coach, and Trainer
Mental health support teams (13:40)
Establish a strong, fully integrated wellbeing team in your school that can adapt to the post-lockdown landscape
Kelly Hannaghan, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant
Break (14:15 - 14:20)
Self harm and suicidal ideation (14:20)
Gain confidence in how to spot the signs of self-harming behaviour and strategies to support students at risk of suicide
Nina Jackson, SEND, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant
Module 2: Wednesday 25 May 13:00-15:30 BST
Chaired by Dick Moore, MHFA Instructor, Speaker
Community Wellbeing: Strategies for support beyond the NHS (13:00)
Ensure your students’ support network doesn’t end in school. In this session we will explore tools to cultivate a community wellbeing strategy, encouraging effective engagement with peers and parents or carers
Hugo Metcalfe, Chief Psychologist & Director of Programs at the Happy Mind Tribe
Digital worlds and wellbeing (13:40)
Understand the ever-changing digital landscape, its impact on young people's mental wellbeing, and gain valuable strategies to implement a culture that embraces, but knows the risks of, digital worlds
Alice Newton-Leeming, Founder, Mental Health Learning
Break (14:15 - 14:20)
Outdoor learning (14:20)
Enhance your students’ mental and physical health with strategies that encourage personal and social development
Mike Crossley, Head of Langley Prep School
10 features of a mentally healthy school (14:55)
Ensure your students have the conditions to flourish even when facing anxiety, stress and change
Dick Moore, MHFA Instructor, Speaker
On-demand Sessions:
Senior Mental Health Lead: Developing and supporting staff
Support your colleagues to understand, appreciate and embrace their part in wellbeing culture change through practical strategies to develop your whole school vision
Clare Erasmus, Designated Mental Health Lead Advisor
Staff Wellbeing
Embed an ethos that cares for staff as well as students with workable tools to improve staff wellbeing
Nina Jackson, SEND, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant
Anxiety
Develop strategies to support students who are anxious and worried for their future
Nina Jackson, SEND, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant