Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School
Mental Health and Well-being
At Bishop Martin are very proud to announce that we have acheived the Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Award. This award recognises all the wonderful support that is in place to ensure our children are happy, healthy, active and mindful.
It is testimont to all the healthy eating initiatives that take place, the supurb pastoral care that is provided, how hard everyone works to build reslilience, how important we view mental health and wellbeing, celebrates our enrichment activities and support that is in place for children with SEND.
PARENTS AND CARERS - Please see the attached link for our next Mental Health Support Team virtual coffee event. Book ypur place now on the Eventbrite link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/virtual-coffee-morning-managing-anxiety-tickets
- Parent Support - Parents can access help and advice to support children's health and wellbeing from 'Place Be' by clicking on this link https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/ There are lots of useful videos and short reads to hlp parents with those challenges around mealt times, healthy gaming, sibling rivalry, routines and rituals, gender identity, anxiety and much more more.
- Please see below our Mentally Healthy School Policy and some useful documents relating to Mental Health and Well-being.
- Neurodiversity We celebrate all our differences, strengths and challenges whenever we can. We make sure this is a focus during Neurodiversity Week each Year! Parent resources https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/parent-resources
- Children's Mental Health We take part in Children's Mental Health Week each year, engaging in fun exciting activities to promote positive wellbeing and strategies to cope and manage our feelings and emotions when we are experiencing challenges and worries.
- For Children's Mental Health Week we thought about growth and self growth, how have we changed and grown? What can we do now that we once found hard? Who helps us to grow emotionally, who is in our support bubble. We learnt to express ourselves through art, our clothing, music and sports.
- Hello Yellow - See pictures below of us saying 'Hello Yellow.'
Family Wellbeing Parent Pack
Please scroll down to the 'Files to Download' section of this page to access the Family Wellbeing pack from the CPR Group. The pack contains leaflets, tips and QR codes which help us all to live a better, healthier life and has emergency first aid help too. The information and videos via the QR codes are update constantly so scan when ever you can.
Mental Health Awareness
Click on the link below to find out how to connect with nature and improve our mental health and well-being.
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/mental-health-awareness-week?
Yoga
Fun and Relaxation Yoga for Children from Birth to Age 12 with @MitchTitchYoga . Click on the link below for familiar yoga sessions that the children will recognise from their weekly yoga lessons in school.
