Our Focus on Your Mental Health & Wellbeing
At St Gregory’s, we are committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of our pupils, parents and staff.
We know that everyone experiences life challenges that can make us vulnerable and at times, anyone may need additional emotional support. We take the view that positive mental health is everybody’s business and that we all have a role to play.
Our Wellbeing Policy can be located here
James Stanford is our qualified Senior Mental Health Lead. The SMHL champions efforts to promote and support mental health and wellbeing, bringing about strategic change to deliver an effective whole school approach.
At St Gregory’s we use Trick Box as part of our well-being approach, across the school. This is a fun and effective personal development programme. Children will be introduced to 24 ‘tricks’, designed to give them positive habits for life. The tricks will help the children to build their confidence and communication skills, manage emotions and find solutions to challenges. They practise the tricks at school and home.
- Recognise and manage emotions
- Develop effective coping mechanisms
- Develop mindful awareness and relaxation
- Problem solve, develop perspective and create solution-thinking
- Build motivation and enhance personal learning
- Set and achieve positive goals
- Develop communication and interpersonal relationships
- Develop empathy and contribution
- Recognise and build on strengths in self and others to develop character
- Create long-term empowered thinking, autonomy and resilience
As a school, we will be offering in the Summer term an opportunity for parents to engage with the Trick Box, parent programme, which covers x4 areas: Stress, Confidence, Assertiveness and Goals. This programme is designed to support parents themselves and also for them to be able to support their children.
At our school we:
- help children to understand their emotions and feelings better
- help children feel comfortable sharing any concerns or worries
- help children socially to form and maintain relationships
- promote self-esteem and ensure children know that they count
- encourage children to be confident and ‘dare to be different’
- help children to develop emotional resilience and to manage setbacks
We offer different levels of support:
Universal Support– To meet the needs of all our pupils through our overall ethos and our wider curriculum. For example, developing resilience for all.
Additional support– For those who may have short term needs and those who may have been made vulnerable by life experiences such as bereavement.
Targeted support- For pupils who need more differentiated support and resources or specific targeted interventions such as wellbeing groups or personal mentors.
