In a whole school approach, wellbeing and mental health are 'everyone's business,’ with genuine engagement across the entire community: staff, pupils, governors, parents and external services.
The approach involves multiple components including early identification and intervention; staff wellbeing and development; and skills-based work for pupils, but above all it adopts a positive and universal focus on wellbeing.
Adopting a whole school approach
* Early identification and intervention
* Skills-based work, such as self-compassion
* Care about the wellbeing and stress of staff
* Helping students with change and transitions
* Targeted responses and clear referral pathways, such as to CAMHS
* Professional learning and staff development
* Understanding the roots of challenging behaviour
* Supportive, robust policy and clear boundaries
* Parents, families, governors, children, support staff - all included
* Long term approach
* Encouraging pupil voice
* Positive and universal focus on wellbeing
Professor Katherine Weare