Mental Health Parents’ Information Advice & Guidance Evening Tuesday 8 th October 2019
School Development Plan • Supported to succeed • Wellbeing represents 1 out of the 5 areas • All staff and all pupils
Adolescent Mental Health • 20% of adolescents may experience mental health issues every year • 50% of mental health issues are established by the age of 14, 75% by age 24. • 90% of school leaders have reported an increase in the number of students experiencing anxiety or stress over the last five years. • Mental health issues in children are increasing while child wellbeing is deteriorating due to young peoples having to navigate a complex and ever-changing world, facing challenges and pressures in numerous aspects of their life.
Personal Social Health and Citizenship Education Key Stage Lesson Provision Content Key Stage 3 Two lessons of Personal, Building positive relationships – Friendships (Y7) Years 7-9 Social and Religious Personal Safety Education per week with Body Image two terms dedicated Relationships and Sex Education (Y8/9) – Sexuality, contraception, healthy solely to PSHCE relationships Drugs Education (Y9) Key Stage Lesson Provision Content Key Stage 4 Two lessons of PSHCE Relationships and Sex Education – building and sustaining healthy relationships, Years 10-11 per week taught on a relationship pressures, consent, sexuality and identity modular rotation Mental Health Y10 module – Mental health disorders – causes, symptoms and treatments, revision and exam pressures Life beyond Hardenhuish (Y11) Drugs Education (Y10)
2020 Relationships and Sex Education Update • Relationships and Sex Education has been a part of our PSHCE curriculum for many years. • From 2020 the Department for Education have taken the decision to make it compulsory for all schools in England and Wales. • Our curriculum updates will include newly mandatory topics such as the law surrounding sexual offences, female genital mutilation and pornography.
Successful Lives • Tutor time programme which takes place during two sessions each week. Topics include wellbeing, communication and participation. • Every year group completes a wellbeing programme of learning during Successful Lives at least once per year. • The wellbeing programme offers practical wellbeing related strategies to support pupils in an age-appropriate way.
Mental Health Awareness Check your dials daily Jeremy Thomas dashboard
Where we can go for help? • Tutor • Pastoral Manager • Teacher • School Nurse • Matron • Key Centre • Nurture • The Resource Centre
The Student Leadership Team Wellbeing Representatives
World Mental Health Day th October Thursday 10 th Staff and 6 th Form students can • wear yellow • All pupils can accessorise their uniforms with yellow items • Yellow cake sale • Yellow themed photo booth with yellow props
The role of the Pastoral Manager Our role is looking after the wellbeing of pupils in school, and that includes looking after their mental health needs. • No teaching responsibilities • 6 Pastoral Mangers one for each year group who stays with them from Y7 – Y11 • Parents are able to contact us by phone or email with concerns/important information • All MHFA (Mental Health First Aid) trained
Every ryone has Mental Health We can help by: • 1:1 conversations with both pupils and parents • Suggest various strategies to try • Time out cards to allow a pupil to leave a classroom is necessary • Provide a “safe” place to sit quietly/talk through anything • Alert teachers to the difficulties that the pupil is experiencing Each student is different and there is no “one size fits all” in terms of what we can do to help.
See the Pastoral Manager for referrals to these other services Signposting to other services We can arrange for the relevant referrals to be made to: • Nurture – a quiet place to visit in the House. • Medical officer - who runs a triage and then organises the school counsellors waiting list (counsellors are in school 2 days per week) • NHS School Nurse – offers a drop in session but we can also arrange 1:1 sessions. • Tutor Mentoring • Specialised support - Referrals to other agencies, for example CAMHS. • Signpost to other agencies/online resources
Becky McInnes Senior Mental Health Practitioner
CAMHS Child and adolescent mental health service.
We are a specialist mental health service with a diverse and multi disciplinary team. We offer various therapy’s and approaches to support different needs. These will be best practice for the presenting need. CAMHS: We are an evolving service who have been adding new ways to enable young people and families to access the right service for their needs. We offer signposting to the correct service to ensure families feel supported and find the relevant help and support needed for their family.
If a frontline service has not been successful a specialist service maybe required. You can call to find out if CAMHS is the right How to access service prior to filling in the request for service forms. This will help ensure you don’t CAMHS. have to fill in forms that are irrelevant. Access the our website at oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Linda McCann STOP parenting linda.m .mccann@oxfordhealth.n .nhs.uk
Tsara Hodson & Hannah Smart School Nurses
Rachel Potter In Integration & Participation Worker Kooth.com
Niamh Taylor Mental Health Champion
Support • Alison Tretheway – School Counsellor • Julia Penrose – School Counsellor • Gemma Sampson – Medical Officer (Matron)
How you can get involved? • Join the Parent Focus Group to contribute to our wellbeing plans and improvements – coming soon….. • Complete the parent evaluation survey following this evening Home
Wellbeing Governor – Sheila Copeman • Mental Health issues have drastically increased over my 10 years as a governor • Every Governor or Committee meeting included discussions around Mental Health and Wellbeing and we, as Governors, weren’t doing anything about it. • In discussion with our Chair, I became the Wellbeing Governor. • Fits well with the business that I run as I see, on a daily basis, the benefits of exercise on Mental Health. • The Wellbeing Award is a starting point to recognise all the work everyone already does regarding wellbeing. • Going forward - to ensure wellbeing is fully considered when we make any decisions about the future of the school.
Thank you Please feel free to ask questions to any of the speakers or member of staff here tonight
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