• Whole school mental health strategy

Supporting senior leadership to create a bespoke whole school approach to mental health specific to the school’s needs, and in line with DFE guidance.

• Trauma and attachment                                             

Equipping participants with a working knowledge of how the quality of children/young people’s earliest relationships with caregivers informs ongoing patterns of relating to the world and other people.

• Bereavement

Understanding the different ways children/young people grieve and how they rely on adults to support them as they process their loss.

• Understanding and supporting Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Equipping participants with a deeper understanding of how SEND and neurodiversity can interact with student development, mental health and wellbeing.

• Staff wellbeing and emotional support

Enhancing team collaboration and creativity, focusing on nurturing both individual, and collective emotional wellbeing within the workplace.

• Mentally healthy communication for all stakeholders

Providing understanding of communication challenges in some children/young people and equipping staff with skills and strategies to listen and communicate effectively.

• Identifying and understanding mental health needs

Learning how to identify and recognise a child/young person who are demonstrating mental health needs.

• Identifying and supporting young people’s mental health

Equipping staff with the knowledge to spot signs and symptoms of mental health difficulties and provide them with easy-to-use strategies to support children/young people in daily school life.

• Trauma informed practice

Understanding and learning how to respond to children/young people, who have been impacted by trauma in early life, with compassion and consider the communication behind all behaviours.

• Attachment

Providing crucial knowledge to understand different attachment styles and why some children/young people find relationships challenging and how to equip them with the skills to navigate relationships.

• Building safe and trusting relationships

Helping staff to understand why relationships are important and provide them with the skills to build relationships with children/young people, especially those who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties.

• Mentally healthy communication

Supporting staff to develop children/young people’s emotional literacy through explicit and implicit teaching.

• Supporting the mental health of children/young people with SEND

Understanding the additional challenges faced by children/young people with SEND and develop a range of tools and skills to support them.

• Supporting children/young people in crisis

Supporting staff in understanding the physiological and neurological impact of being in crisis and equip them with the resources, tools and skills to work together to support the child/young person to recover.

• Bereavement and loss

Understanding the different types of loss and grief, bereavement models and factors that can affect children/young people’s behaviours in response and provide the skills on how to start difficult conversations and offer support through active listening.

• Reflective practice

Supporting staff to reflect on the emotional impact of their work, consider their own wellbeing and create the opportunity to offer and receive support from colleagues.

• Supporting children/young people’s emotional wellbeing and helping them to achieve their full potential

Exploring the basics of mental health and children/young people’s development while providing skills and strategies to help them express their feelings and communicate their needs.

• Looking after our mental health as a parent/carer

Exploring some regulating techniques to support both parents/carers and children/young people when feeling overwhelmed.

• Managing challenging behaviour

Supporting parents and carers in understanding challenging behaviour as a form of communication, and helping them to establish appropriate boundaries.

• Supporting the emotional wellbeing of children/young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Providing parents/carers with an understanding of the links between SEND and poor mental health, and delivering strategies, resources and tools that they can use to support themselves and their child/young person.

• Supporting your child/young person with exam stress – Secondary school focus
  Understanding the adolescent brain and body and what happens when adolescents feel stressed and how to support them

• Year 6 transition

Preparing children for the changes ahead and supporting them in their transition to Secondary school.

• Understanding my mental health

Understanding how children/young people can aid their mental health well-being.

• Communicating my feelings

Helping children/young people to develop emotional literacy through a range of creative activities.

• Managing conflict in peer relationships

Supporting children/young people to understand the function of healthy conflict and practise strategies for handling it.

• Managing exam stress

Providing children/young people with tools to help manage exam stress and anxiety.

• Mental Health Lead

Supporting schools in developing a trauma-informed, whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Sessions: 3 x 1.5 hours

• Wellbeing Leads

Supporting schools to create a Wellbeing Team.
Sessions: 3 x 1.5 hours

Following this training, Wellbeing Leads will be equipped to provide direct support to children/young people, and their families. They will be able to:

• • Deliver wellbeing interventions to children/young people
  • Monitor the impact of these interventions
  • Liaise with families
  • Support staff wellbeing
  • Deliver regular staff CPD on children/young people’s mental health

• Community Leads
  Supporting schools in developing Community Leads: Parents/carers are trained to support those lesser heard parents/carers and create a bridge between them and the school.

Sessions: 3 x 1 hour

• Peer Leads
  Supporting schools in developing Peer Leaders who can provide playground support and deliver regular check-ins with children/young people in need.

  Sessions: 3 x 1 hour