Mental Health and Wellbeing

Your child’s emotional wellbeing and mental health is very important to everyone at Netherton J&I  School. Good mental health plays a vital role in your child achieving their full potential in all aspects of their life and we would like to support you with this. As well as developing ways to support the mental health and wellbeing of our young people, we also want to help them to understand the importance of looking after their own mental health and wellbeing, and to develop strategies they can use to support this. In school, we teach children about what it means to have good mental health and wellbeing throughout our curriculum and daily practice. Our RSE curriculum focuses specifically on developing children’s social and emotional skills which can prevent mental ill-health from developing and help all children cope effectively with setbacks and remain healthy. It is about helping children to understand and manage their thoughts, feelings and behaviour and build skills that help them to thrive, such as working in a team, resilience, and self-awareness. Our goal is to raise happy, healthy and resilient children who are prepared for later life.

If  any child needs a little support with their mental health, for whatever reason, school will in the first instance talk to the parent/ carer about any concerns that school/home has.  We will then either provide in school pastoral support or make a referral to our Future in Minds support.  This is done in consultation with parents, and children may be allocated a worker who provide 1-1 support.  All support is age appropriate and may support children with strategies for managing difficult emotions and feelings and anxiety for example.