Mental Health

Mental wellbeing describes your mental state – how you are feeling and how well you can cope with day-to-day life. Our mental wellbeing is dynamic. It can change from moment to moment, day to day, month to month or year to year.

At Allestree Woodlands School we value the importance of mental wellbeing for all of our studeRAnts, parents/carers and staff.

Here are some of the things that we do in regards to mental wellbeing:

• The Mental Health lead is Mrs Brailsford who is the DSL and member of the Senior Leadership Team.

• We proactively teach our pupils every year through our PSHE (Personal, Social, Heath and Economic) and RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) curriculum about wellbeing and resilience. This includes coping with exam stress, healthy lifestyles, mental and emotional wellbeing, managing loss, building resilience, online safety etc.

• We deliver assemblies about mental wellbeing and resilience to pupils as and when necessary.

• We strive to ensure that all of our pupils have a trusted adult in school who they feel they can talk to if they have any concerns. We have set up an email address for pupils to use if they have any concerns:  safeguarding@woodlands.derby.sch.uk

• We have display boards informing and signposting pupils to support both within school and externally.

• We provide relevant and up-to-date information for parents/carers about Mental Wellbeing.

• We have a wellbeing centre that is available for all students.