Mental Health Blog June 2025
5th June 2025
Welcome to our monthly wellbeing blog!
June 2025
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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 - Mrs.Edwards and Miss. Parkes. |
Action for happiness
Action for happiness releases a monthly calendar to help support children's mental health and wellbeing. This month is Joyful June 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:
FLOWER🌼Breathing//Calm & Focus for Kids! A Quick Relaxing Mindfulness Exercise
STAR // 30 Second Breathing Exercise. SUPER SHORT & SIMPLE!
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: The way I feel
The Way I Feel - Animated Read Aloud Book
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?
● 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
News from Dudley Council Health and Wellbeing Bulletin:
New wellbeing walk
Are you free on Mondays? Do you fancy an hour’s stroll, chat and cuppa? If so, the new wellbeing walk from Russells Hall Park, could be perfect for you.
The nature walks, which start on Monday 7 April, begin at 12pm. Meet at Russells Hall Park picnic bench, which is by the car park off Middlepark Road.
Contact Debbie Parkes for more information on 07757 602071.
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Adult Social Care In Dudley
National Carers Awareness Week takes place next week from 9 - 15 June. It aims to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families. It also helps people who don't think of themselves as having caring responsibilities to identify as carers and find support.This year the awareness week is focused on 'caring about equality', calling for an equal society where carers are valued, recognised and supported. The campaign is highlighting the inequalities faced by carers, including a greater risk of poverty, social isolation, poor mental and physical health.Are you a carer?
Do you provide care or support to a parent, child, partner, relative, neighbour or friend who has an illness, disability, addiction, or is older and frail? If the answer is yes, then you are a carer.Here in Dudley borough, Dudley Carers Hub, run by Dudley Council, offers information, advice and practical support to unpaid carers of all ages. Support on offer includes:● Advice on respite services● Specialist training courses for carers● Information on financial and legal rights● Help with arranging a carers assessment● A specialist Dudley Young Carers Service● Support with getting out and about, including social groups and carers groups
There are two carers hubs located at Queens Cross Network in Dudley and Brett Young Centre in Halesowen. Open 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.● Call: 01384 818723● Email: dudleycarershub@dudley.gov.ukDuring Carers Week staff from the hub will be highlighting the support they offer. Carers can drop into the carers hubs any day to ask for information, advice or support. Staff from the service will also be out and about manning ‘Say Hello’ benches on Hagley St, Halesowen (9/6), Foster St, Stourbridge (10/6) and Dudley St, Sedgley (12/6) next week, carers can come along have a chat and find out about the help on offer to support them in their caring role. They will also be at Russells Hall Hospital's information hub (in the foyer) next Monday (9/6).
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