Harthill Primary School
Mental Health & Wellbeing
My Happy Mind
We are thrilled that we are a My Happy Mind school.
My Happy Mind is an award-winning programme that is grounded in neuroscience and scientific research. It is a preventative programme designed to support the development of good mental health habits, resilience and self-esteem.
All our children have a My Happy Mind lesson each week and are encouraged apply the strategies they learn to their daily lives.
You can find out what they have been learning and further support the development of these good mental health habits at home through the My Happy Mind parent app. The app includes videos so that you can follow along with the children's learning, audio breathing exercises, stories and fun activities that you can do together at home.
There are 5 Modules which will take place throughout the year:
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Meet your brain - Meet Team HAP! Team HAP helps children learn all about 3 key parts of their brain: the hippocampus, the amygdala and the pre-frontal cortex.
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Celebrate - children build self-esteem by learning all about their character strengths
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Appreciate - children are supported to develop an attitude of gratitude which has a proven, positive impact on mental wellbeing
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Relate - children learn to improve their listening skills so that they are better able to communicate and understand each other
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Engage - children will build resilience through setting and achieving goals.
For more information please visit My Happy Mind
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Scan the QR code to download the parent app and ask in school for our unique activation code!
Healthy Relationships
We value Healthy Relationships highly at our school and regularly discuss what these mean to our children though our curriculum, how we implement our behaviour policy, and through our values of belonging and kindness. Children are taught about how to show kindness, empathy and respect to each other as well as being taught what signs to looks out for if a relationship is not healthy. Our teaching about healthy relationships also extends to online relationships and the importance of staying safe in the digital world.
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Good physical health requires good mental health. Below you will find a list of useful links that may be used to support this:
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An online learning portal covering a huge range of mental health issues written for and with parents and carers in mind – a great resource.
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The UKs leading child and adolescent mental health charity. The information for parents is especially good.
Their subsite HeadMeds gives general information about mental health medication.
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Information and support, empowering people to understand their mental health.
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A website about mental health aimed at and co-developed with young people which includes:
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Youth Wellbeing Directory: Since April, the directory has seen a 7- fold increase in visitors to the site since relaunch in April.
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Jargon Buster: To help young people understand medical terms in simple language
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Receiving Support: Videos & Q&As about what a young person can expect when working with a service
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Understanding Referrals: Videos & Q&As about the referrals process
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Helping Someone Else: Top tips and advice from young people about how to help a friend or family member
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Know Your Rights: Allows young people to feel empowered a to make informed choices.
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Useful Links for parents and children
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A website that allows you to enter your postcode and gives you all the local mental health services/counselling services.
Education Support Partnership
The UK's only charity providing mental health and wellbeing support services to all education staff and organisations.
Commissioned by the young royals this website is a portal to pastoral and curriculum resources related to mental health. Everything on the site has been quality assured – it links to a lot of other sites and training. It was initially aimed only at primary schools but much of it is more widely relevant and secondary school resources are currently being reviewed and quality assured.
The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust
CWMT provide free mental health resources and training to school staff
