Mental Health and Well-Being

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Five Steps to Well-Being

Leeds Beckett Carnegie Mental Health Award:

We are excited to announce that we achieved the Bronze award in May 2022. The pastoral support that we offer to our pupils along with the curriculum that we have in place were highly praised. We were incredibly close to receiving the Silver award and this is something we will continue to work towards in the future.

Mental Health and Wellbeing at Glebe Junior School

Here at Glebe, we know that children learn best when they are happy and feel safe. As a school, we aim to ensure all our pupils feel supported, encouraged, motivated and ready to learn. We understand that the children we teach and work with daily, will face different challenges as they grow up. These challenges could be: academic, social, emotional or developmental.

At Glebe, the mental health and wellbeing of your children is extremely important to us and we work hard to create a learning environment that supports and nurtures the social, emotional and mental wellbeing of the children in our care. How do we do this? The Senior Leadership Team, Senior Mental Health Lead, PSHE Lead and Pastoral Teaching Assistants work collaboratively to identify children who may need additional pastoral support and offer the appropriate provision when required. This could include interventions such as:

Me Time
Lego Club
Drawing and Talking
Anger Gremlins
Anxiety Gremlins

Our staff have also been trained in how to support children who are emotionally dysregulated using the Emotion Coaching approach to help each child in need, as well as being trained in how to spot the early warning signs of poor mental health. Together, staff will work to find the most appropriate method or technique to support each child’s individual need.

Children are taught about mental health and wellbeing in Learning for Life lessons through the delivery of child-friendly PSHE lessons and by supporting recognised National Mental Health days. Children are encouraged to share their thoughts, feelings and worries with teaching staff as a way to support their mental health. To help promote, nurture and support emotional regulation, children also have access, in their classrooms, to: