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Mentally Healthy Schools

Mentally Healthy Schools brings together quality-assured information, advice and resources to help primary, secondary and FE settings understand and promote children’s mental health and wellbeing. The website was originally developed in partnership between Anna Freud, Young Minds, Place2Be and The Royal Foundation, and continues to be a key part of Anna Freud’s mental health and wellbeing offer to education settings across the UK.

The Mentally Healthy Schools website features a resource library for classroom and wellbeing support with over 200 free, practical resources, as well as a mental health lead resource hub to help develop a whole-school or college approach to mental wellbeing.

You can also sign up for a free account which allows you to save the resources you like best and receive a monthly toolkit of curated resources on a theme like Children’s Mental Health Week, transitions or exam stress.

http://www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/

Service children’s quotes

"As soon as we get used to a house, you get moved - I’ve been to four schools and moved six times."

Aiden

"I lived in Nepal, then we went to Brunei, then Malaysia."

Ashim

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Chloe

"I’m used to moving now and mixing with the children... I’ve done it so many times, it’s just a normal thing now."

Chloe

"It's ok talking over skype and that, but sometimes you just want a hug when Dad is away."

Georgia

"I’ve enjoyed going around to lots of places around the world, it's adventurous and exciting."

Harry

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Ieuan

"My mum got a chalk board and it says how many sleeps on it with chalk, every minute it’s getting closer for him coming home."

Mia

"I don’t want him to get promoted... I want him to get promoted but I don’t want to leave."

Oliver

"I might be going to boarding school so that I don’t change schools every few years."

Ryan

"I've been to seven different schools; I’ve not stayed put in one school long enough."

Shana

"He has been away for six months and he is back for two weeks, then he goes away again."

Sianed

"My parents were in the Army. My mum is a like a nurse and my dad went to the war in Afghanistan. I actually didn’t really know what he was doing so I was like, ‘Cool Dad, go there,’ but then I found out and thought, 'Thank God he came back alive.'"

Sanjog

"He signed off last week, so he will be done by the end of this year. He’s done 24 years. I find that better because he will be around a lot. He likes watching us playing rugby, so he will get to see us more."

Lewis

"I’m going to a new place entirely. They don’t know anything about me and that’s a big restart and that’s really good for me."

Piaras

"I moved to Wales because my dad was posted in the Army. I thought I would get bullied and I was shy when you meet new people, but I made some friends."

Dan