Place2Be
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity with over 25 years’ experience working with pupils, families and staff in UK schools.
Place2BeHealth and Wellbeing
At Eppleton Academy, the wellbeing of our children is so important. We want every child to feel valued and supported. We have lots of useful information and resources available for children over on our Mental Health Matters page in the Kid's Zone. We feel it is vital children understand their own mental health and how to look after it. We have also created this Health & Wellbeing page to provide you as Parents and Carers with information and resources for you to support your child's mental health. We hope you find it useful.
Place2Be Children's Mental Health week 2023
Information for Parents & Carers
Dose Magazine is an amazing website for Parents, families and teachers, which provides wonderful resources and information designed to support children's mental health and wellbeing. You can sign up for free which will allow you to access a wide range of fun, age-related resources which can be used at home.
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity with over 25 years’ experience working with pupils, families and staff in UK schools.
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Cbeebies- Keep CalmFor World Mental Health Day 2023 we took part in some Creature Comforts wellbeing sessions. Amanda from Creature Comforts brought in a range of animals to work with the children. Studies show that spending time with animals can calm the mind and increase endorphins in the body, making you feel happy. The children loved spending time stroking and caring for animals such as rabbits, mice, rats, lizards, snakes and a tortoise. It was lovely to see how the animals had such a positive impact on the children and the staff.
Children’s Mental Health Week 6 – 12th February 2023 The week is run by children’s mental health charity Place2Be to raise awareness of the importance of children and young people’s mental health. The theme was 'Let’s Connect'. Let’s Connect is about making meaningful connections, and for Children’s Mental Health Week 2023. Place2Be is encouraging people to connect with others in healthy, rewarding and meaningful ways. Our assembly was all about making connections and our Breakout sessions this week, were designed to give children time to connect and make meaningful connections with their friends and school staff. In our Breakout sessions, each class spent time making meaningful connections with their peers. The children took part in some games to help them with this. One game required the children to hold hands in a circle, this represented the connections between the children. Then they needed to pass a hula hoop around the circle without breaking the connection. This was lots of fun! The children also played Connect Bingo and another game which gave the children topics to discuss to try and find connections between themselves and others. Some of our younger children even went to another classroom to make connections with children in Nursery and Reception class. It was such a fun afternoon and there were lots of amazing connections made.