Children's Mental Health Week 2025: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself

This year, in assemblies and in class, we have been discussing how important it is to know and name your emotions in order to help manage them. The children loved watching video clips of Inside Out' and were fantastic at thinking of different emotional vocabulary to describe Riley's emotions. Children were then challenged to create an alphabet of emotions. See our progress below!

We also welcomed Inspirations Dance in to school where they ran dance workshops around the theme of emotions for years 1-6. The children absolutely loved it. To end our week, we joined in with the Young Voices Worldwide Singalong to celebrate what would have been Bob Marley's 80th birthday. The children joined in beautifully with school all over the world to sing a medley. What a week!

Mental health and wellbeing at HCCPS: A whole-school, staged approach

At HCCPS, promoting and supporting good mental health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff is an integral part of our vision and values. At our school, we aim to promote positive mental health and well-being for our whole school community; pupils, staff, parents and carers, and recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives in just the same way as physical health. We recognise that children’s mental health is a crucial factor in their overall wellbeing and can affect their learning and achievement. 

Our role in school is to ensure that pupils are able to manage times of change and stress, be resilient, are supported to reach their potential and access help when they need it. We also have a role to ensure that pupils learn about what they can do to maintain positive mental health, what affects their mental health, how they can help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues and where they can go if they need help and support.