This week is Children’s Mental Health Week (7th – 13th February 2022).
The Red Cross promote Kindness Teaching Resourses: Celebrate the power of kindness. Children and young people are encouraged to learn about and practise kind acts with our range of kindness resources. They will learn the importance of being kind to others as well as themselves. It also explores resilience as kindness can help us to cope with any challenges and changes. They offer many free activity packs including:
- 5-14 yrs. Kindness Activity Pack – includes activities around kindness, coping, recognising feelings and learning new skills.
- 7-18 yrs. Tackling loneliness – Uses a range of mixed media resources to explore loneliness and how we can help people who feel lonely.
- 5-11 yrs. The Snowman™ & Snowman Dog Kindness calendars. Children are encouraged to learn about and practise kindness this December with The Snowman™ and The Snowdog in our new kindness calendars.
- 7-18 yrs. Wellbeing Activities – Managing Stress – Uses activities for young people and children to explore the resources they have to manage and understand stress.
- 7-18 yrs. Summer of Kindness calendar. Quick activities to encourage simple acts of kindness, build resilience and cover topics such as mental wellbeing and loneliness that will help children and young prepare to go back to school.
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity with over 25 years’ experience working with pupils, families and staff in UK schools.
They provide mental health support in schools through one-to-one and group counselling using tried and tested methods backed by research. We also offer expert training and professional qualifications. They report:
- 1 in 6 children and young people have a diagnosable mental health problem, and many continue to have these problems into adulthood.
- 50% of those with lifetime mental health problems first experience symptoms by the age of 14.
- 1 in 10 boys aged 5-19 with a mental health condition are excluded in some form from school.
Their free resources will help you take part in the week. All of the ideas can be adapted for use in school, for home-schooling, online lessons or independent learning. Click HERE for more information.
