Mental Health & Wellbeing

Rowan Park Schools are committed to providing a caring, healthy and inclusive environment that promotes and supports positive mental health and wellbeing for our pupils, staff and parent/guardians. We take the view that positive mental health is everybody’s business and that we all have a role to play. As a school, we will constantly strive to find a range of tools that will help the whole school community with their emotional wellbeing. Positive mental health is vital to what we do at school; it underpins the crucial work carried out to support pupils and their families.

 At our school we:

• help children to understand their emotions and feelings
• help children socially to form and maintain relationships
• promote self esteem
• encourage children to be confident
• help children to develop emotional resilience and to manage setback

This year Rowan Park Schools will be working towards the Wellbeing Award for Schools.

This whole-school award focuses on ensuring effective practice and provision is in place that promotes the emotional wellbeing and mental health of both pupils and staff. The award focuses on changing the long-term culture of a school, and embeds an ethos where mental health is regarded as the responsibility of everyone.

By working towards this award, our school can:

• Show our commitment to promoting mental health as part of regular school life
• Improve the emotional wellbeing of our school community
• Ensure mental health problems are identified early and effective support provided
• Offer provision and interventions that matches the needs of our school community
• Engage the whole-school community in the importance of mental health awareness
• Obtain the views of parents, students and staff on mental health