Hello and welcome to our well-being page! 

At Kingsley the well-being and personal development of our children is threaded through everything that we do. Positive relationships are our foundation and our number one rule is BE KIND.

In addition, we support pupil well-being through:

• Access to an exciting and engaging curriculum with a wide, rich set of experiences 
• Recognising and celebrating achievements through daily rewards and feedback 
• Celebration assemblies 
• Access to play therapy 
• Access to a trained counsellor to support children 
• Child yoga sessions delivered by a trained instructor
• Mindfulness
• Visitors to school, trips and opportunities to nurture, develop and stretch pupils' talents and interests
• Respecting and celebrating diversity
• RSE
• Actively promoting equality 
• Black History Week
• Wellbeing Week
• Mental Health wear yellow day
• Outdoor learning and play 
• Calm spaces around school
• Access to prayer room
• Subsidised breakfast club
• Healthy free school meals 
• A range of popular free after-school clubs
• Sporting clubs and competitions 
• Support for families – family learning, curriculum sessions, bespoke support, bilingual support, close links with Granby and Dingle Children's Centre, school health/social services

We are very lucky to have a team of amazing learning mentors who support children across the school in class, in small groups and one to one support.  

How can parents and families of Kingsley children get help for Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing?

If you need any help with your child's wellbeing, including emotional and mental health, we are here to help.

Please ask if there is anything we can do to support you. In the first instance, you could speak to the class teacher or other school staff. We may be able to offer support in school, or we may be able to signpost you to other services. We are here to help! 

YPAS 

is a Merseyside-based Charity. They support children and young people aged 5 – 25.

YPAS helps with many difficulties that children, young people, and families experience. These difficulties can often impact how we feel, affecting our everyday mental health and emotional well-being.

Common presenting issues include anxiety, depression, bullying, self-harm, sexual abuse, family-related issues, emotional abuse, neglect, bereavement, grief, loss, domestic violence, hearing voices, etc.

The wellbeing service provides a wide range of support and low-intensity evidence-based interventions designed to address the impact of mental health and emotional wellbeing. The service provides open-access groups, drop-in activities, information, advice, and guidance. Common presenting issues include anger, isolation, confidence, self-esteem, family-related issues, education, housing, benefits, etc. 

https://www.ypas.org.uk/

The Walk In Support Hub service at YPAS is facilitated from a central hub in the city centre. A child/young person/parent/carer can drop-in at our Central Hub
Monday - Wednesday 9.30am -8pm Thursday: 2pm - 8pm and Friday: 9.30am - 4pm.

You do not need an appointment or a referral to access this service.

What the YPAS team does:

Wellbeing practitioners can support children, young people and families with emotional wellbeing needs and can advise on a range of practical support issues. They will provide information, advice and guidance and in some cases will offer low intensity CBT based models of support.

Why do people attend the Walk In Support Hub?

Children, young people, and families attend the Walk In Support Hub service for lots of different reasons. Some people are seeking advice about services and what they offer, some people are struggling with different feelings and emotions this is what we would call ‘self-defined’ crisis. If you require support for any issues like this, please drop-in.

Do I need an appointment or referral to attend?

You do not need a referral to access this service, just drop into our central hub.

https://www.ypas.org.uk/what-we-do/well-being-services/crisis-drop-in/

YPAS also offers a variety of different Parenting Programmes - if you feel a programme would benefit you or your family then please make a referral into the Parenting Service.  They will complete an assessment alongside yourself and together discuss what programme would be the most appropriate for you and your family. 

https://www.ypas.org.uk/what-we-do/parental-support/

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/about/

National Children's Mental Health Week 2025 will take place from 3-9 February 2025. 

What is the theme for Children's Mental Health Week 2025?

The week’s focus is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself, with the aim to equip and empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them.

This year we're partnering with Here4You, supported by The Walt Disney Company and the Inside Out 2 characters to explore the theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.

This newsletter from LCC is full of ways to help you support your family wellbeing over winter and throughout the Christmas period 2024. 

Our whole-school approach to well-being is the ROAR response to mental health which is a program that aims to help teachers and staff recognise and address the signs of mental health problems in children. Through ROAR, our children learn to develop confidence, resilience, independence and strength of character. We recognise that we all have mental health and we know that talking about our feelings can be hard,. The more we talk, the better we understand each other and ourselves. Children learn emotional literacy and self-regulation. Together we learn how to support each other. 

We use the ROAR Rainbow to say how we are feeling from 1 – 10.  1 means we are feeling very sad or worried, and 10 means we are feeling great.  We may feel somewhere in between and may move up and down the Rainbow during the day.  

HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH?

Ask your child/children to rate themselves and how they feel along the rainbow. It is okay to not feel okay. We all have good days and bad days. This will give you a good idea of how ready and able they are to engage with whatever you are doing at that point in the day.

This could be used over a week to identify key times of the day when your child’s mental health is low.

How could you change your routine and structure of the day to change this?

Could you put in an exercise or relaxation session?

Is it time to connect with friends and family?

Is it time to go outside and enjoy some fresh air and connect with nature?

Maybe take some time listen to music or enjoy a story together.

According to research one of the key factors that determine your ability to deal with adversity, is how you bounce back from things when they are tough (resilience).

Resilience is important because it:

• Helps you to try new things.
• Encourages you to take on challenges.
• Keeps you going when things get tough.
• Keeps your dreams alive.
• Helps you to deal with failure and frustration.
• Give you the strength to get up and try again.
• Give you a ‘WHY’ to keep going for.

You can use the Resilience Framework (https://resilienceframework.co.uk/) to set targets and track your progress towards resilience. 

We use Resilient Ralph with younger children in school as a talking point for resilience

• Green hat – keep calm and relax hat.
• T-shirt to remind people to be resilient.
• Rubberband – Do you bent or break? We all have a breaking point.
• Springs to bounce back.

Occasionally we have some very special visitors!