At Greet we aim to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for our whole school community (children, staff, parents and carers), and recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives in just the same way as physical and emotional health.
We recognise that children’s mental health is a crucial factor in their overall wellbeing and can affect their learning and achievement. All children go through ups and downs during their school career and some face significant life events.
Our role in school is to ensure that children are able to manage times of change and stress, and that they are supported to reach their potential or access help when they need it. Part of this support is that we have Milly's Bubble for children to access when they need emotional and well being support.
We also have a role to ensure that children 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;
- where they can go if they need help and support.
Our aim is to help develop the protective factors which build resilience to mental health problems and to be a school where:
- All children are valued
- Children have a sense of belonging and feel safe
- Children feel able to talk openly with trusted adults about their problems without feeling any stigma
- Positive mental health is promoted and valued
- Bullying is not tolerated.
We take a whole school approach to promoting positive mental health that aims to help children become more resilient, happy and successful and to prevent problems before they arise. We therefore aim to create an open and positive culture that encourages discussion and understanding of these issues. The children are at the heart of the Greet family.