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PBR: Exploring the incorporation of well-being into the primary school…
PBR: Exploring the incorporation of well-being into the primary school curriculum
Mental health
Promoting good mental health
Giving students the tools to improve mental health from an early age
Lowering stigma
Providing students with strategies/coping mechanisms
Anxiety
Depression
Helping students to understand - what is mental health
Creating a nurturing environment
Providing breaks from work
Promoting the importance of taking breaks/having free time
Less emphasis on assessments
Allowing children a break from the constant assessments from an early age
Lowering chances of anxiety related exam stress (SATs)
Bad mental health can have an impact upon academic attainment
Increasing rates of problems with mental health
Depression/anxiety have increased by 70%
Increasing rates due to COVID-19 lockdown
Isolation
Not seeing friends
Could be in a vulnerable environment
Importance of school within child development
Critical years alongside home life for development
Bad mental health can have an impact upon academic attainment
Good mental health = increase in resilience
Recommendations
Inclusion of observation of well-being in ofsted reports
Influences school wider behaviour
'Personal development' in Ofsted framework
Individual grade needed for wellbeing impact within schools
Training for teachers
Mental health workshops (for children and staff)
Increase in government funding for well-being services
Counselling
Online counselling (MSc dissertation)
Strategies
Mindfullness
Physical education
PSHE
Resilience training
Mental health lessons
'Schools in mind'
Animations for understanding mental health