Student Wellbeing

Hi everyone,

Self-care is incredibly important.  It is about things we can do to look after our own mental health and well-being.

There are evidence-based steps everyone can take to support their well-being for example:

• connect with others – talk to sympathetic people about how you are feeling now
• be active – exercise changes our emotional states
• find something that calms you or makes you feel happy, and do it every day.
• do something that helps someone else – this could include volunteering
• keep learning – remembering that we can develop and grow changes our outlook on life.

The Anna Freud website also has a wide range of self-care strategies. It is important that you have a regular self-care routine. Find strategies that work for you (there are over 90 on the Anna Freud website).

You will also find lots of useful advice in the Student Health Guide magazine below.

I have also attached a wellbeing plan that might help you to focus on your self-care.

If you feel like you need additional support, please let someone know: a trusted friend, parent/carer or school mentor. Remember, it is ok not to be ok!

If you need to contact someone outside of school, there are a number of ways to do that on the childline website, as well as further advice regarding well-being.

Best wishes,

Mr Hedley