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Improving your pupils' mental health – two case studies

Mental health Pastoral issues
Supporting children’s emotional wellbeing in primary school is vital to ensuring pupils can grow into happy and healthy adults. Two winning schools from the Resilience and Results Awards explain how they prioritise their pupils’ mental health

King’s Hedges Educational Federation

Barbara Stoneman, deputy headteacher, King’s Hedges Educational Federation, Cambridge (Resilience and Results Winner 2013)

Kings Hedges works hard with its resources to demonstrate exceptional provision for students across all aspects of supporting wellbeing. The awards judging panel was quick to pick up on our careful and innovative use of external services and resources, considered measurement and evaluation of achievements, and strong evidence of placing pupils’ voices at the heart of our decision-making strategies.

We believe that early intervention is the key. Questionnaires on entry to early years are undertaken as part of a two-year FAB Project (family happiness and wellbeing) and this screening process identifies early signs of mental health problems. Home visits are valuable in gaining the parents’ perspective on the needs of the child and gives the staff an insight to the child’s home and family life. 

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