Mentally Healthy Schools
From Anna Freud Centre
Resource type: Lesson plans and teaching aids, CPD resource
Price band: Free
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5
Region(s): All of UK
Mentally Healthy Schools is the UK’s first mental health information and resource hub for schools. The website provides free access to hundreds of mental health resources to help school staff understand, talk about and support good mental health in their school.
Information and resources cover five main areas:
- Mental Health Information: provides information on the different conditions that might affect children and young people, as well as risk factors that may undermine a young person’s mental health.
- Whole-school approach: guidance and advice for each UK country to help implement a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.
- Resource hub for classroom and wellbeing support: a library of quality-assured lesson plans, assemblies and other resources to support classroom teaching.
- Resource Hub for a whole-school approach: practical resources and tools to enable mental health leads to embed a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.
- Targeted support: Guidance and tools to help schools provide effective targeted mental wellbeing support.
Cost: Free.
About Mentally Healthy Schools: Mentally Healthy Schools was originally developed as a collaboration between the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, Young Minds, Place2Be and The Royal Foundation. In April 2020, the Anna Freud Centre took full responsibility for developing and delivering the website.
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- All the resources have been quality assured by mental health experts at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
- Teachers can create their own library of useful links and resources by registering on the site. Registration also provides access to a monthly newsletter containing guidance and toolkits curated by the Mentally Healthy Schools team.
- A free one-stop site providing advice, information and resources to support mental health in primary and secondary schools.
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