Good sleep is key to children’s learning and well-being, but many struggle with it. This section offers simple tips and advice to help your child build healthy sleep habits and wake up ready for the day.
The theme of this year's Mental Health Awareness week is anxiety.
Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but sometimes it can get out of control and become a mental health problem. Lots of things can lead to feelings of anxiety, including exam pressures, relationships, starting a new job (or losing one) or other big life events. Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems we can face.
Focusing on anxiety for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week will increase people's awareness and understanding of anxiety by providing information on the things that can help prevent it from becoming a problem. At the same time, we will keep up the pressure to demand change - making sure that improving mental health is a key priority for the government and society as a whole. (source mentalhealth.org.uk)
Here are some resources to help us understand a bit more about anxiety and how we can help those who are experiencing it.
The festive season is often associated with feelings of excitement and happiness, but for some it may not always be a positive time.
The shorter days, colder temperatures and the pressures associated with this time of year can impact many people, adults and children alike.
In these resources, from Mentally Healthy Schools, you will find activities to help boost winter wellbeing for children and tools to help them manage their emotions.
A support and self-help guide for children, young people and their families produced by the Norfolk and Waveney Children and Young People's Mental Health Service.
Here are a collection of websites that are designed to help young people with mindfulness.
Created by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, this booklet draws on the existing evidence base around self-care and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to think about how we can support children and young people struggling with anxiety. It is aimed at supporting adults who are playing a more significant role than ever in their child’s education at a challenging time.
Created by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, this leaflet features an introduction from their Patron, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge who supported the You're never too young to talk mental health campaign stating the campaign's resources "demonstrate how we can help children express their feelings, respond appropriately, and prevent small problems from snowballing into bigger ones."
A Norfolk County Council resource created to help equip children and young people of all ages with strategies to support emotional health and wellbeing behaviours.
