My Happy Mind
We are proud to be a part of the myHappymind Family! Every Monday, we have a myHappymind lesson and then practise the skills we have learnt all week.
As a whole school program grounded in science and dedicated to building positive mental wellbeing, myHappymind helps children understand how their brains work and creates a culture that helps to build children’s resilience, confidence, and self-esteem. myHappymind also teaches the children how to self-regulate and manage their emotions in stressful times, allowing them to be their very best selves!
Learn more here: https://myhappymind.org/
These are the modules the children will be studying:
- Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
- Celebrate: Understanding your unique character strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self esteem.
- Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we’re all about making it a habit!
- Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We’re focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
- Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to keep resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too.
Commando Joes
All children have the opportunity to take part in ‘Commando Joes’ lessons where children have to work together in a team to solve ‘missions’. These happen either inside the hall or outside. Children have to navigate themselves across shark-infested waters, build dens and towers and solve other fun missions. We assess children using the RESPECT framework:
- Resilience
- Empathy
- Self-Awareness
- Passion
- Excellence
- Communication
- Teamwork
The Story Project
For the remaining elements of the PSHE curriculum, we will be using stories carefully selected for our school to teach children about things such as feelings, getting on and falling out, being healthy, fire safety, online safety, cultural identity, rules and laws, self image and much more.
Learn more here: About Us – The Story Project (story-project.co.uk)
Health and Wellbeing Workshops
We also have workshops where other professionals come into school from either Coram Life Education, the NHS school nurse team, the Emotional Wellbeing Team and West Yorkshire Police. Families will be informed of these visits in advance.