Mental Health and Wellbeing Info

Upcoming Events

Upcoming online parent/carer workshops. Topics include anxiety, stress and coping strategies, depression, eating disorders, risk taking behaviours and learning disabilities and autism.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

What is mental health?

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

At Sandgate School we put equal weight on mental and physical health.

How do we support mental health at Sandgate School? (Students)

We support our students’ mental health by providing a curriculum and environment that meets their individual needs.

We support our students’ mental health by helping them build strong relationships with staff and peers based on mutual trust and respect.

We support our students’ mental health by liaising with parents and carers.

We support our students’ mental health by viewing behaviour as communication.

We support our students’ mental health by viewing communication as an essential human right and seeking ways for all students to access this.

We support our students’ mental health by respecting their choices.

We support our students’ mental health by meeting their sensory and vestibular needs.

We support our students’ mental health by encouraging them to identify, understand and name their emotions. We support students to find effective ways of regulating their emotional needs.

Examples of approaches used with school are :

The incredible 5 point Scale

Decider skills
Child Mental Health First Aiders on staff team.
Staff trained to Level 2 Child and adolescent Mental Health
Level 3 trained Child and adolescent counsellor
Staff trained in Drawing and Talking Therapy

Work with Moving Mindsets including a designated school support worker
Visits from therapy dogs
Weekly targeted music therapy
Student/staff debriefs including storyboards and comic strips
KS3 + Mental Health support group
LGBTQ+ student support group
Worry boxes in each class room
Designated student mental health support email addresses
SoSafe programme
Working with wider agencies and support networks

How do we support mental health at Sandgate School? (Staff)

Designated staff mental health support email addresses
Trained Mental Health First Aider in workplace
Colleagues trained in suicide awareness

Ongoing professional development opportunities
An internal HR and Pay advisory service
Employee benefits including self-referral for occupational health support including mental health and physical health as well as physiotherapy
Cycle to work scheme
Access to support and counselling through schools’ insurance scheme