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Mental Health Blog January 2025

8th January 2025

 

Welcome to our monthly wellbeing blog!

January 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 81878

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





























Get Moving in January

Some of the free healthy moving activities that run in the borough will be starting again in January. Click the link below for more details.
Park Active sessions are 45-minute outdoor fitness classes for all fitness levels.

Check out Healthy Dudley for positive lifestyle changes and ways to improve health and wellbeing. Home - Healthy Dudley The website has up-to-date public health information and news as well as information on aging well, healthy communities and much more.



Discover what’s happening at your local family hub:

What's on at your family hubs? | Dudley Council

Organiser:

Family Information Service

Telephone:

01384 814398

Website:

Family Information Directory

Email:

fis.cs@dudley.gov.uk

Address:

Directorate of People Services, The Council House, DUDLEY, West Midlands, DY1 1HF

 

The Family Information Service provides free, up to date information, advice and contacts for families across Dudley Borough. 

They hold details of Ofsted registered childcare and information on free childcare for 2, 3 and 4 year olds. You can also find things to do and places to go with details of events and activities taking place for children, young people and families.

They also hold information on family support and can signpost to both local and national support groups.