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By Logan, Year 12 This week our Mental Health Champions travelled a stones throw to our St James Trust sister school to attend an assembly led by the mental health charity “Mind”....
On Tuesday 23rd May students that were successful in their applications to be Mental Health Champions spend the day in training. The day entailed sessions on recognising their own...
We are now half way through the Watford Inspires programme. Students have had sessions on developing social skills, management skills and creating a positive attitude. All this...
This week’s theme of the week has been about mental health and what we can do to boost our own mental health and that of others. Exercise has been proven to boost mental...
Monday 15th May marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week. As a school we are passionate about raising awareness about the importance of...
Over the weekend many households, families and communities will be coming together to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. As part of the celebrations a new...
It’s the time of year when the key focus us on revision. Teachers of Year 11 and 13 are coming up with innovative ways to help the students revise and support them through the...
CDCs had training on the Unifrog Software, a career package that we have been using successfully with our older students. We will be rolling the programme out with our younger...
On enrichment day Year 10 had a two hour session called Mental Health Matters. This session was delivered by external speakers all working in the field of Mental Health,...
What a way to start the half term. On Friday afternoon the SEND team put on their musical extravaganza. With songs and dances from the musicals the SEND students, under the...
This week our Mental Health Champions travelled a stones throw to our St James Trust sister school to attend an assembly led by the mental health charity “Mind”. In this assembly they went through all the essential skills and knowledge about mental health and introduced their new app, With YOUth. This contains a varied bank of resources, information and enticing work sheets based around building positive habits lifes skills and coping mechanisms in order to deal with the changes and stresses that life has to offer. These skills can be taken into through all stages of life. With a flurry of excited volunteers the mind representatives also introduced a space based video game called “Lumi Nova”. Approved and developed in partnership with the NHS this video game aims to help children with anxieties such as separation anxiety and phobias. The app included various challenges to complete and a comprehensive management to ensure a positive amount of screen time is maintained. After discussing the apps the mental health champions have agreed to trial each app and give feedback.
Within the Mind Hertfordshire Network there is lots of support on offer for people, not just young people, struggling with their mental health from workshops and drop in to apps and instant messaging for people in crisis.
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