TEACHER STANDARDS

Mental Health Awareness in a Primary School

This course provides an overview of mental health awareness in a primary school setting. It covers essential topics, such as understanding mental health, implementing a mental health curriculum and effective communication strategies. Participants will learn to identify signs of struggle in pupils, promote self-reflection and utilise strategies to empower children. The course also addresses signposting and safeguarding procedures, and emphasises the importance of a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing, including staff wellbeing.
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Becky Dawson & Hannah Wigram

2 hours

Online Course

By completing this course, you will:

define mental health and its legislative and curricular responsibilities;
confidently recognise indicators of potential mental health and wellbeing struggles in children;
describe methods to empower children facing mental health challenges;
effectively signpost and safeguard children with mental health needs;
explain the importance and elements of a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Course Lessons

Becky Dawson

Becky Dawson has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She spent 16 years in mainstream education as a drama teacher, SENDCo, Safeguarding Lead and Assistant Head, and 5 years as Resilience Training Lead in Newham, implementing a whole-system mental health approach. She contributed to the Zinc Venture project, aimed at improving mental health for 300 million children globally. She has also developed an alternative education programme for children with SEND and is a visiting lecturer for Weston College. She partners with South London and Maudsley Hospital “Be Well” hubs and the Charlie Waller Trust. She is the National Wellbeing Lead for Twinkl, with a focus on ensuring all education stakeholders have access to high quality resources, to ensure wellbeing in education is central to their work.
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Hannah Wigram

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Hannah Wigram is a former primary teacher and PSHE lead. As Educational Content Lead at Twinkl for Primary PSHE & Wellbeing, she is responsible for developing innovative content that promotes educator and pupil wellbeing. With a background in educational research, Hannah is passionate about supporting children and young people to meet the challenges of today's world with confidence.