Wellbeing Dates & Activities
Please see below for a Powerpoint detailing Maple Tree's Whole School Mental Health Approach shared with staff in Summer 2022 :)
There is also a SEND & Wellbeing Calendar 2022-2023, which incorporates a monthly mental health focus for the children across the school - perhaps you can try some of these with your children at home :)
All children across the school use the check-in strip below at register times to let staff know how they are feeling. Children from Reception to Yea6 use the strip below. Our children in preschool use a thumbs-up, down or sideways, to show how they are feeling. Staff then check-in with children to find out why they have chosen a number, particularly if it is 4/5. This is proving invaluable as children are now learning from a young age to open up and talk about their feelings, thus leading to more self-resilience when they reach our older age groups.
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Please follow this link for World Mental Health Day (10th October 2022) info and resources:
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/world-mental-health-day
Please have a look below for mindfulness and mental health activities:
Mindfulness meditation for kids, breathing exercise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_qU7l-fcU
Children's Mental Health Week (6th - 10th February 2023)
Please follow the link to Place2Be activities and resources for parents. There is information about some of the activities the children will be doing at school too:
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/families/
Classes will also be doing the following mediations:
5 mins meditation for Fir/KS1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL_22TU80Hs
9 minutes meditation for LKS2: (start from 30 seconds onwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIRabf12InE
12 minutes meditation for UKS2:
