Mental Health & Wellbeing

At Little Houghton CE Primary School, we believe that we provide a safe and supportive environment for building life skills, wellbeing, resilience and a strong sense of belonging to the school.

Our approach to teaching and embedding wellbeing in our school aims to protect positive mental health, enhance the capacity of children to cope with difficult situations and reduces the likelihood that a mental health problem will develop.

We aim to achieve this through:

• Having a fully trained Senior Mental Health Lead in school
• Ensuring positive relationships with parents, teachers and other stakeholders
• Developing a positive school climate, a sense of belonging and a sense of security and safety
• Having effective school policies and a strategic plan that embeds mental health and wellbeing
• Developing problem solving skills, coping and resilience though a number of specific programmes
• Focusing on the positive mental health of teachers and school staff as well as children and young people.