Colley Lane Primary Academy, Colley Lane, Halesowen, B63 2TN

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September 2024 Health and Wellbeing Blog

11th September 2024

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Welcome to our monthly wellbeing blog for

September 2024

We aim to support our children and families as much as possible. We hope you find some activities and 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 July. Please click the link below to find the interactive version of the calendar.

Calender

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:

Rainbow Relaxation: Mindfulness for Children

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:

A story about respecting people, places and things.

📕Kids Book Read Aloud: A Little Respectful SPOT: A Story About Respecting People, Places, and Things

Community Corner

Dudley Council has an Early Help and Family Information Service Directory. This service offers information about funded childcare, activities, services and events taking place across the borough and information about NHS health services for children, young people and families.

Please check the link below for more information.

https://www3.dudley.gov.uk/Synergy/FSD/

Dudley also has a public health website.

www.healthydudley.co.uk is the new address for guidance from Dudley Public Health and Wellbeing.

From recipe ideas, cancer screening and immunisations to healthy pregnancies or ageing well, the website provides insight for all the family.

The website provides information and resources for improving health and wellbeing, covering all life stages from pregnancy and early life to healthy ageing.

Get the latest wellbeing information and join in with campaigns, projects and local activities that promote health and wellbeing. Use free resources to help plan for later life, cook healthy recipes, and tools to manage stress and cope with bereavement.

The website is also a tool to become more active, stop smoking and stay a healthy weight.

Healthy Dudley website

Did you know that Places of Welcome exist across Dudley borough?

Places of Welcome are run by local community groups who want everyone in their neighbourhood to have a place to go for a friendly face, a free hot drink and a conversation if and when they need it.

Each Place of Welcome is unique but all provide a place for people to connect with one another, find belonging and offer gifts and skills that interest them.

Places of Welcome take place in a variety of different venues including churches, community centres, libraries, mosques, temples and other community group buildings.

If you are visiting a Place of Welcome for the first time, check with the venue that they will be open as usual.

Find out more about Places of Welcome or join the Dudley Network by going to the Places of Welcome Webpage

Protection from winter illnesses

Boxing gloves

Summer may not yet be over, yet health professionals are already looking to protect people from winter illnesses.

Flu vaccination

From September the people invited to have their flu vaccination will include:

Pregnant women
Children aged two and three
School children from reception to year 11
Children with clinical risk

From October the invite will extend to:

Those aged 65 and over
Care home residents
Front line health and social care workers

Look out for invites from your GP surgery and consent forms from your children’s schools.

RSV

Two new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programmes will be introduced in September.

1) To protect infants by vaccinating pregnant women (from 28 weeks)

2) For older adults aged 75 to 79 years old

RSV is a common virus, but for some, it can be much more serious. The new vaccination will help to prevent thousands of cases of RSV, GP visits and hospital admissions.

Social Media Latest Updates.

Dudley Council has made it easier than ever for you to keep up-to-date with all of the latest Health and Wellbeing news by following Health Dudley on Facebook and X.

FREE Five to thrive sessions for parents, carers and grandparents

Blocks

Brain development in babies and children relies on good relationships with others, especially parents, carers and grandparents.

FREE interactive 'Five to Thrive' sessions are being held online on Monday 9 September 11am – 1pm and Tuesday 8 October 6 -8pm.

The sessions will focus on the five parts of five to thrive - Talk, Play, Relax, Engage and Respond. You can watch this video to find out more and book a place online now.

Book a place

During the month of September we will be focusing on welcoming the children back to school and supporting their transition into their new class.