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Mental Health Blog February 2025

5th February 2025


 

Welcome to our monthly wellbeing blog!

February 2025

 

We aim to support our children and families as much as possible! We hope you find some activities or advice here that you find useful!

 

Please click here to visit the Wellbeing section of our website:

https://www.colleylaneprimary.org.uk/our-school/safeguarding-and-wellbeing/wellbeing/

Or contact

wellbeing@colley.windsoracademytrust.org.uk to speak to a member of the pastoral team.

 

Action for happiness

Action for happiness releases a monthly calendar to help support children's mental health and wellbeing. This month is New Ways November Please click the link below to find the interactive version of the calendar.

https://actionforhappiness.org/calendar


 

What we do at school

We try to practise Mindfulness in our classes during each week. Each blog will contain a link to a popular mindfulness activity that has been used within school.

This month's choices are:

 

A Cozy Winter Day - Mindful Meditation With Hot Chocolate Breathing - For Kids!

 

 

Snowflake Body Scan! 8 Minute Calming Mindfulness Meditation For Kids

 

 

Story Corner

We also have a story to support mental health and wellbeing each month, each story will look at a different feeling, emotion or experience.

Click the link below to hear this Month's story: Kindness is My Superpower

 

Kindness is My Superpower | Read Aloud by Reading Pioneers Academy

 

Community Corner

 

 

Dudley Family Hub Network offers support and advice for families in Dudley with children aged 0 to 19.Family hubs are local and accessible, there is also an online support system.

Where is my local family hub?

There are currently five local family hubs around the borough that can offer support to you and your family. They are open Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm. They are located at:

    Stourbridge  - Forge Rd, Stourbridge, DY8 1XF, 01384 818780

 

    Lye - Lye By-Pass, Stourbridge, DY9 8HT, 01384 813954

    Brierley Hill - 18 Parkes Street, Brierley Hill, DY5 3DY, 01384 813322

    Coseley - Bayer Street, Bilston, WV14 9DS, 01384 813096

    Dudley - Selborne Road, Dudley DY2 8LJ, 01384 812440


Also this month:

 

We will be celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week 3rd -  9th Feb 2025. The theme this year is ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, with an emphasis on the importance of self awareness and expressing emotions. We want to encourage children to get to know who they really are and enable them to build resilience, to develop and to grow as individuals.

During this week the children will be taking part in various mindfulness activities including yoga, colouring and positive self-awareness worksheets. There will be top tips added to Dojo each day, so please keep an eye out for those and also a non-uniform day on Friday 7th.

 

Place2Be has some fantastic family resources to enable you to take part in Children’s Mental Health week from home, please take a look:

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/families/

 

Also this month…

Our next Parent workshop session with NHS Reflexions will be taking place on Wednesday 26th February from 9 - 10am in the small hall. This workshop will focus on Anxiety, what it is and how best to support your child, there will be resources available to take away with you and the session is open to all parents and carers, there will be forms available at the office if you wish to register your interest.

There will be more information added to Dojo closer to the time, please keep a look out!