Mental Health and Welbeing

At Amport CE (Aided) Primary School we ensure that the children's emotional wellbeing and mental health is one of our priorities. Through our curriculum, conversations and whole school initiatives we ensure children understand that mental health is as important as our physical health and we need to look after it.

Nicky King has completed the DFE funded Senior Mental Health Lead Training through the charity Place2be. We also continue to work with our Mental Health Support Team who facilitate a termly coffee morning in school. This year we have Year 6 Mental Health Champions who think of ways to support our mental health and wellbeing. So far this year they have introduced a friendship bench and a kindness box. 

Please find below our Mental Health and wellbeing policy, which includes our graduated response to levels of support and links to other sources of information to support you and your child at home.

• Futurelearn: Psychological First Aid: supporting children and young people course

• Place2be
  supporting your child's mental health

• NHS Young Minds
  YoungMinds are a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents, making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need

• Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

• NHS Hampshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
  Ideas for supporting children and young people from an early stage to referral

• Hampshire Back to Basics
  Five ways to Wellbeing is an approach that can empower families to take control of their wellbeing

• The Good Mental Health Handbook
  A guide for parents and teachers

• Mind
  Information and support for adults