Category: Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical Wellbeing

MESP Third and Fourth Level Links

Resources from Australia: For students, learning how to support their peers and talk about how they feel is an important life lesson, so where better to start than in the classroom? These resources for primary, secondary and tertiary educators and institutions will help students everywhere start a conversation.

Child Bereavement UK

Support for schools and children to cope with bereavement

Respect Me

These resources are designed to help you spark conversation and inspire action among children and young people in your setting. For maximum impact they should be used as far as possible within a whole-setting approach to anti-bullying.

Anna Freud

Information, lesson plans, powerpoints, animations for staff to lead discussions around mental health

Oxfam

Access learning and activity resources, aimed at teachers, to bring the issues Oxfam works on to life, both in the classroom and the wider community.

Red Cross

These curriculum-linked activities, sessions and teaching packages are ideal for PSHE, Citizenship, English, Art, Geography and informal learning time. They help primary learners develop empathy with others, learn to help others, develop their resilience and gain many other life skills.

Hands On Scotland:

Hands on provides help and practical advice for supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Better Eating Better Learning
Guidance to support schools and all stakeholders to work in partnership to make improvements in school food and food education

Mood Cafe:

A web based source of information and support for young people and their families on a number of health related topics.

Teenage Cancer Trust

Resources and information on a range of topics associated with teenage cancer

Mental Health Foundation- Make it Count

This guide is for teachers to help them create a classroom and school environment where children can thrive with good mental health.

Brake- Road Safety

Our guide for educators will help you teach important road safety messages to children age 2-18 and meet curriculum goals. Free sign up required to access the resources

CEOP

Child Exploitation and Online Protection command. Information for keeping young people safe online

No Knives Better Lives

Knife Violence Prevention Scotland – No Knives Better Lives. NKBL is a Scottish national programme that aims to deter young people from carrying knives. It is a collaboration between Scottish Government and YouthLink Scotland (the national agency for youth work in Scotland).

Nil By Mouth

Resources to support teaching about anti-sectarian behaviour in Scotland. Includes the opportunity for a free school workshop for pupils.

Ditch the label

Exploring why people can become bullies and how we can prevent this

Samaritans DEAL resource

DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people.

See Me- Resilience Toolkit

motional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme.

NHS information site on anxiety in children

This resource includes sections on how to spot signs of anxiety and gives tips on how to help. There are useful links to films on building self-esteem in children and to another website that explains relaxation techniques to use with children.

Falkirk Educational Psychology Service

This Blog is intended to provide practitioners working in Falkirk with easy access to materials, links and advice that will assist in their assessment and intervention.

The materials and guidance section provides useful resources and we publish information on how we deliver a service in Falkirk, including our training courses in the service delivery section.

Coping skills for children and young people.

This website provides strategies used by child therapists for calming anxiety, including ideas to calm down, books to read and videos that can help.

Young Scot- Aye Feel

Find information about how to look after your emotional wellbeing, support from organisations around Scotland and tips on how to promote a positive mindset.

MESP Third and Fourth Level Lessons

See Me- On Edge

On Edge aims to tackle the myths that surround self harm, reduce the stigma associated with it by increasing understanding of its function, reduce the barriers to help seeking by raising awareness of sources of support and promote a consistent humane response to a behaviour which is a manifestation of distress.

Dove- Self Esteem Resources

Information and exercises relating to self-esteem and body image

Bounce Back

A whole-school program from P1 to S2, Bounce Back! provides students with practical strategies and life skills to handle challenges and adversity encountered.

Crossing The Line

This lesson and accompanying film explores the issue of cyberbullying with an LGBT focus. Through the toolkit activities students will define cyberbullying and recognise examples of it; exploring when actions have crossed the line. In addition to this there is clear signposting to advice and support on how to respond to and deal with issues of cyberbullying.

Anna Freud

Information, lesson plans, powerpoints, animations for staff to lead discussions around mental health

Samaritans DEAL resource

DEAL is a free resource for teachers and other educational professionals designed to help develop resilience in young people.

Brake- Road Safety

Our guide for educators will help you teach important road safety messages to children age 2-18 and meet curriculum goals

No Knives Better Lives

Direct link to the presentations available for knife crime prevention work with young people

ShunBurn – Teenage Cancer Trust

Protecting skin and avoiding skin cancer. Register for a free downloadable teacher resource pack

STOP Stigma – Cornwall Healthy Schools

STOP Stigma aims to increase students’ awareness of stigma linked to mental health problems, the role of the language in stigma and increasing knowledge and understanding of mental health problems

Dinnae Stress

Rise Above – Department of Education England:
There are resources covering the following areas, however, these are based around Key Stages 3 & 4 as rather than CfE: Social media, Sleep, Dealing with change, Transition to secondary school, Puberty, Bullying and cyberbullying, Smoking, Online stress and FOMO, Alcohol, Exam stress, Body image in a digital world and Forming positive relationships

Return to School Resources

Place2Be has put together a series of resources focused on community recovery, to help headteachers and school staff start to bring their schools back together following recent challenging times. Drawing on themes including hope, gratitude and connectedness, these assembly and class activity ideas are intended as a universal resource for all children, and staff are invited to use them as starting points to promote emotional wellbeing and resilience for all.

Facts about mental health – third/fourth level | Health and wellbeing activities | Resources for practitioners | Scotland Learns | National Improvement Hub (education.gov.scot)

By learning facts about mental health, young people will be able to explore and challenge their own values and attitudes to mental health. This learning activity is based on third/fourth level experiences and outcomes.

Why We Need Sleep

Young people will learn about the importance of sleep in maintaining positive wellbeing and health.e.

Better Sleep Routines

Young people will be encouraged to investigate ways to improve the quality of their sleep to maintain positive wellbeing and health.

They will learn information and techniques to help them get a great night’s sleep.

How Much Quality Sleep Do I Get?

Young people will be encouraged to think about their own sleep patterns and how they can make slight changes which may have a significant impact on their wellbeing and health.

Identifying Coping Strategies

Dealing with different challenging situations can cause a range of short and longer term emotional responses for everyone at times. This activity helps young people to identify coping strategies to help them to manage when they face challenging personal circumstances.

Creating a Sensory Box

Dealing with different challenging situations can cause a range of short and longer term emotional responses for everyone at times. This activity helps young discuss using a sensory or self-soothe box as a strategy to help cope with difficult personal circumstances.

Managing Anger

Dealing with different challenging situations can cause a range of emotional responses, including anger, for everyone at times. This activity helps young people to think about the kinds of things that make people angry and ways to cope with these often intense feelings.

Thinking about Worrying

Here you will find some ideas to support you to design an activity to help young people to explore the kinds of things that people worry about at different stages in their life.

Worry, Stress and Anxiety

Here you will find some ideas to support you to design an activity to help young people to think about the differences between worry, stress and anxiety.

Developing Coping Strategies

This activity helps young people to explore the different ways that people cope with feelings of worry and anxiety. It also helps them to reflect on how well they themselves cope.

MESP- Senior Phase Other

NHS Forth Valley Self Help Guides

Self help guides covering a range of topics including: self harm, anxiety, stress, sleeping, panic and food for thought.

Mental Health Foundation – Make it Count:

This guide is for teachers to help them create a classroom and school environment where children can thrive with good mental health.

Free podcast from The Centre on the Developing Child at Harvard University. The first guest of this special series is Centre Director Dr. Jack Shonkoff. He and host Sally Pfitzer discuss how to support healthy child development during a pandemic, including the importance of caring for caregivers. They also talk about what we’ve already learned as a result of the coronavirus, and what we hope to continue learning.

Meditation and Sleep Made Simple – Headspace App

An app to help you be: Less stressed. More resilient. Happier. It all starts with just a few minutes a day.

Mindshift App- Anxiety Canada

A free app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety.

Calm App

Meditation techniques to aid with stress and sleep.

Apps to Support Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

This is a collection of apps that are designed to support young people, adults and families with their mental health and well-being. If you click on the image it will open the app site in a new window. Some of these do need a paid subscription to use them while others have been made freely available during the Covid situation.

Clear Fear app
The fear of threat, or anxiety makes you want to fight it or run away. Instead, face your fear with the free, Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions. The app was developed for teenage mental health charity stem4
by Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and uses the evidence-based treatment Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).The app can be personalised and can track progress and notice change. You can download the app, and the guide on using it during Covid-19, on the website below.

MESP- Senior Phase Online Learning

SeeMe: Mental Health – Stigma and Discrimination module
A resource from SeeMeScotland helping young people to understand mental health and have a more positive attitude towards dealing with it.

Transferring the Emotional Load webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGR69hYvfw0&feature=youtu.be

HWB Recovery Plan Webinar (West Lothian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSr41GUOf2g

SAMH module for teachers:

‘We all have mental health: an introduction for teachers’, to provide teachers with an introduction to mental health; equip them with the skills and knowledge to recognise and respond to a pupil who is experiencing a mental health problem; and lead a conversation about positive mental health.

Free Stress Management Course (NHS Fife):

This is an online and modified version of Step on Stress for managing our stress and anxiety during the current COVID-19 pandemic. This online resource has four sessions 1) Introduction and Wellbeing 2) Managing Your Body 3) Managing Unhelpful Behaviours 4) Managing Your Thoughts. To get the maximum benefit of this online course, we would encourage everyone to watch each of the four sessions in the running order (1-4).

Psychosocial First Aid

Key resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of you and your staff members. Includes sections on managing stress, coping and resilience.

Webinars on Teen Sleep during COVID-19

These webinars are a partnership production between the Emerging Minds Network and The Mental Elf and were recorded on 27 May 2020. They were delivered by experts in the field who shared their knowledge and experience and answered questions during the webinars. The aim of the webinars were to share what research says about sleep and mental wellbeing in children and young people and to explore the potential practical implicationsfor families. There are 3 available through the link below, the 3rd one is a combination of the first 2 along with a question and answer session. https://emergingminds.org.uk/podcast-teen-sleep-during-covid-19/

Health and wellbeing video resource – Self-reporting on progress | Learning resources | National Improvement Hub (education.gov.scot)

This video resource exemplifies young people from early to senior phase self-reporting about their health and wellbeing. They describe and illustrate the skills, knowledge and capabilities they have in relation to health and wellbeing experiences and outcomes which are the responsibility of all.

MESP- Senior Phase Links

OXFAM

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/handle/10546/620557

The second link takes you to theOXFAM Library of digital resources. Access learning and activity resources, aimed at teachers, to bring the issues Oxfam works on to life, both in the classroom and the wider community.

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Red Cross:

These curriculum-linked activities, sessions and teaching packages are ideal for PSHE, Citizenship, English, Art, Geography and informal learning time. They help secondary learners develop empathy with others, learn to help others, develop their resilience and gain many other life skills.

Child Bereavement UK

Support for schools and children to cope with bereavement

Hands On Scotland:

Hands on provides help and practical advice for supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Better Eating Better Learning
Guidance to support schools and all stakeholders to work in partnership to make improvements in school food and food education

Mood Cafe:

A web based source of information and support for young people and their families on a number of health related topics.

Falkirk HWB Blog:

A blog covering all aspects of HWB, maintained by the curriculum support officer for health and wellbeing in the Service and School Improvement Team.

Breathing Space 0800 83 85 87 or https://breathingspace.scot/

FDAMH – Falkirk District Association for Mental Health – Online resources https://www.fdamh.org.uk/find-online-help/

Education Scotland- staff wellbeing wakelet: https://wakelet.com/wake/7ae44302-d330-413c-b1b1-7ba25b786c7b

Clear Your Head has produced tips to help you look after yourself and get through these uncertain times. With ideas about how you can keep moving, create a routine, find things you enjoy and keep connected with friends and family – finding time for any of these will help to clear your head. https://clearyourhead.scot/

EIS HWB resource https://www.eis.org.uk/Member-Support/HWResource

Talking and Listening Skills through HWB during our recovery phase:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/fa/LiteracyStrategy/2020/07/17/talking-and-listening-skills-developing-and-applying-through-hwb-during-our-recovery-phase/