Boing Boing
Boing Boing is a Community Interest Company (CIC) who works alongside children, young people, families and adults exposed to social disadvantage. They use resilience research and practice to help people having particularly tough times and have achieved success in Blackpool and Brighton. We recommend using their free academic resources and resilience framework.
www.boingboing.org.uk/academic-resilience-approach
Heads together. Mentally healthy schools
Mentally Healthy Schools is a new website to help primary school staff support the mental health of your pupils. There is a range of expert and practical information and resources to help all primary school staff understand, promote and deal confidently with children’s mental health issues: jargon-free information on what can undermine and what can help emotional wellbeing; tips and strategies to help; and specific advice on vulnerable groups.
www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk
Premier League Primary Stars
The PSHE Association worked with the Premier League to write a series of PSHE packs to enable teachers to develop pupils’ essential skills and attributes around the themes of resilience, identity, values, self-esteem, teamwork, inclusion and behaviour. With clear learning outcomes linked directly to the PSHE Association Programme of Study, each pack contains a short film and a complete lesson plan with a variety of interactive and practical activities for pupils, and includes insights from children and sporting personalities.
Rise Above
The Rise Above website and social media channels host exclusive content from vloggers and YouTubers, including films, interactive videos, animations and quizzes. The content tackles topics that young people are most concerned about, such as puberty, relationships, smoking, drinking, alcohol, peer pressure, exam stress and body image.
Rise Above for Schools
Rise Above for Schools from PHE provides new PSHE resources to support secondary school teachers when promoting positive health, wellbeing and resilience among young people aged 11 to 16. By using video content featuring influential young people, such as vloggers and YouTubers, the resources will help specialist and non-specialist teachers to facilitate open and informed conversations about sensitive topics among their students.
campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/schools/topics/rise-above/overview
Samaritans
The Deal (Developing Emotional Awareness and Listening) programme is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people around 14 years and over. Lesson plans, activities, hand-outs, DEAL digital resources, teachers’ notes and staff training materials can all be accessed and downloaded at any time from Samaritans website.
Young Minds
Young Minds is the UK’s leading charity championing the wellbeing and mental health of young people. We also recommend using their free Academic Resilience resources.
youngminds.org.uk/resources/school-resources/academic-resilience-resources