Wellbeing
At Fairfield Community Primary School we aim to promote positive health and wellbeing for our whole school community (children, staff, parents and carers), and recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives.
At Fairfield, we use My Happy Mind to help create a positive mental wellbeing culture in which children build resilience, self-esteem, and character. Grounded in positive psychology and neuroscience, myHappymind is a whole school approach that aims to develop resilient, confident, independent children and enables them to understand how to keep mentally healthy.
We have embedded the myHappymind programme across school to teach our children the science behind their thought and behaviour processes and give them the skills and knowledge to develop their self-regulation and successfully support their mental wellbeing.
myHappymind is science-backed, NHS commissioned programme for schools, grounded in the latest science and research about what it takes to create positive wellbeing. It’s taught to every single child and there’s a curriculum for every year group from Early Years to Year 6. It builds on the work children cover on mental health within the PSHE curriculum. myHappymind covers 5 modules over each year. Each one introduces a new set of content and habits to help children build resilience, self-esteem and confidence:
To learn more about the myHappymind for Schools programme visit their website at myhappymind.org
myHappymind Module Descriptions
- Meet Your Brain: Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
- Celebrate: Understanding your unique character strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self-esteem.
- Appreciate: Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to well-being and resilience and we're all about making it a habit!
- Relate: Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We're focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
- Engage: Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to keep resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self-esteem and resilience too.
This half term we have been completing the module 'Meet Your Brain'. Please click the link to read the parent newsletter and find out more!
Below you will find some helpful links that focus on how we can all look after our mental health and emotional well-being...
BBC Five steps to help with children’s wellbeing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/five-ways-to-help-childrens-wellbeing/zfb2d6f//
NHS Five Steps to Wellbeing
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/improve-mental-wellbeing/
Health for Kids provides a fun and interactive way to learn about health for children with a separate adults area
https://www.healthforkids.co.uk/
Young Minds has a resource library full of useful toolkits, publications, reports and policy information about children and young people's mental health
Change for Life provides lots of ideas which promote a healthy lifestyle
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life#MQ7y3jpc3qMmhftQ.97
Daily Mile provides lots of information about how physical activity and being outdoors can improve health and well-being
Bury Council health and wellbeing
Our most recent Wellbeing Newsletter........