Supporting mental health during transition
e-Sgoil have collaborated with the mental health experts at Headstrong to create some exciting live online learning opportunities to support learners with their mental health during transition from P7 to S1. There will be two live online class-based transition workshops and two live online family learning sessions.
- 2 x P7 Live Online Transition Workshops – each 45 minutes duration
- 2 x Online Parent Workshops – each 30 minutes duration
- Live Q and A – Questions can be submitted live or sent in prior to the event via email at e-sgoil@gnes.net
- all workshops will be recorded as an online resource that can be accessed on demand after the event.
The live sessions will be broadcast as follows:
Monday 30th May
9.30 – 10.15am Online classroom workshop. Here is a video introduction for teachers https://vimeo.com/712822537
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Monday 30th May
6 – 6.30pm Online evening family learning session. Here is a video introduction for parents so please share with them https://vimeo.com/712822460
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Monday 6th June
9.30 – 10.15am Online classroom workshop.
6 – 6.30pm Online evening family learning session.
How do I sign up? There is no need to register for the learning sessions you simply follow this link (https://e-sgoil.com/mentalhealth/) and click on the live Vimeo panel at the time of broadcast, it is that easy. Once you are part of this Scotland wide learning session send us a message to say who you are and what school community you are part of and you might get a mention live on air. Further details of each learning session can be found below.
Pupil Session 1 – Why Don’t Brains Like Change?
A session where we talk about what happens to our mental health when we go through any big change. Can we do anything to prepare? What do I do when unexpected things happen? Is it normal to not feel 100% confident about what’s about to happen?
In this first session Brian will talk about how our brains learn new things and why it’s really important to give our brain time to catch up when our world changes.
Pupil Session 2 – Brain Training For Secondary School
In this session we’ll teach some simple strategies for dealing with common mental health problems by discussing how our mental health is an ‘inside out’ process. What this means is our mental health is not really about what is happening to us. It’s much more about how we think about what’s happening to us.
Brian will cover a range of simple strategies and understandings such as “What if…” spirals and how our brain makes all our emotions from thoughts not things.
Parent Session 1 – Understanding The Mind of Your Child
The move from Primary to Secondary is, for many children, the biggest change they will have experienced in their lives. They will move from the comfort of Primary where they have grown up, made friends, been around the same teachers day in day out, to the much faster world of High School and its hectic world of new people, subjects, teachers, timetables and pressures.
In this session Brian will talk about the psychological changes that happen for our Primary 7s as they begin the next stage in their journey. What should you expect as a parent and how can you prepare for the next stage of your child’s life.
Parent Session 2 – Saying the right things (and at the right time!)
Every parent has felt the pain of saying what they thought was the right thing only to find it, somehow, makes the situation worse or gets the instant feedback that it was very much the wrong thing. And this gets worse and more frequent the older they get.
In this session Brian will cover how to know the right thing to say and when the perfect time to say it is. Knowing just a few key, powerful questions can make you seem like parent of the year rather than a parent facing a temper tantrum.
