Children’s Mental Health Week (3 to 9 February 2025)

Children’s Mental Health Week runs from Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th February. The theme for 2025 is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. The aim is to equip and empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. It is an opportunity for children and young people to discover how getting to know who they are can help them build resilience, grow and develop.

Place2Be has created lots of resources and activities for your school to use throughout the week!

They have partnered with Here4You, supported by The Walt Disney Company and the Inside Out 2 characters to explore the theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.

Resources include a school pack with lots of fun activities, slides to use at assembly and ideas for fundraising.

> Download the resources for schools

Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week
Get involved using #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week 3 - 9 Feb 2025
Place2BE's Children's Mental Health Week Schools Pack 3 - 9 February 2025

Empowering SEND Students to access music making

In specialist education settings, providing students with the tools to express themselves musically can be life-changing. CMPSR and Arrownotes, developed by Digit Learning, are designed to break down traditional barriers in music education, offering a fully accessible, inclusive music-making system that empowers students with disabilities to engage with music on their own terms. Creating a collaborative environment for children and young people to make music together is a great way for them to get to Know Yourself, Grow Yourself!

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Students using the CMPSR joystick for musical collaboration.

CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Supporting pupil mental wellbeing with Stix’ interactive technology

Recorded: Thursday 7th March 2024

In this 30 minute recorded session find out about Stix Remotes. Stix are a sensory product designed to provide families with the tools to support and maintain their mental wellbeing.

Audio instructions combined with sensory feedback guide children through activities that teach mental health coping strategies that children enjoy playing.

Liam from Stix talks through how the technology works to support wellbeing, the mindfulness activities involved, and the impact the Stix Remotes are having on children in the school setting.

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CENMAC's Thursday Thirty Session; Supporting pupil mental wellbeing with Stix interactive technology Date: Thursday 7 March 2024 Time: 15.30 to 16.00 (GMT)

Widgit resources to support children and young people’s mental health

Widgit has created a great Wellbeing Pack of symbol-supported books and activites to support children’s wellbeing. The pack was produced in partnership with Dr Jerricah Holder, Educational Psychologist, and contains symbolised books and activities to support children’s understanding of wellbeing and self-care.

Access the resources

Widgit symbols

www.widgit.com/resources

Urgent Mental Health Support
– 24/7 Crisis Support

 

Every mental health trust in London has put in place a 24/7 crisis line for people of all ages – children, young people and adults. The lines which are free to call can provide advice to those in a crisis. These crisis lines are supported by trained mental health advisors 365 days a year. You can find the 24/7 crisis line numbers using the NHS Service Finder (link below) but the table provides all of the telephone numbers in London.

> Urgent Mental Health Helpline


Download the table below:
Urgent Mental Health Support For Children Young People And Families

Urgent Mental Health Support

Partnership for Children

Partnership for Children is an independent charity which promotes the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children, both in the UK and in many countries around the world. We produce mental health promotion programmes for primary schools that teach children skills for life: how to cope with everyday difficulties, how to communicate with and get on with other people, and build self-awareness and emotional resilience.

Zippy’s Friends and Apple’s Friends programmes have been independently evaluated and found to improve children’s coping skills, social skills, emotional literacy and reduce bullying. There is also an adapted version of Zippy’s Friends for pupils with SEND.

If you are interested in delivering Zippy’s Friends or Apple’s Friends to your class, please visit Partnership for Children’s website for more information about training courses for teachers. Our website also has free downloadable resources to help children talk about feelings and cope with difficult situations.

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