This month we have had a fantastic start to the year. The wellbeing ambassadors have assembled and welcomed new year 7 volunteers into the fold. We have elected our 2 lead Wellbeing Ambassadors, a huge congratulations to Olaf (y11) and Ashton (Y8).
Our first events of this academic year have been Youth Mental Health Day (19th September) and our first Brew Monday. For Youth Mental Health day we raised awareness with support slides on the screens over break and lunch this week along with our mental health stand in the café at break time, here pupils were able to pick up leaflets with ideas for support and suggestions for how to check in on those we care about. Our Wellbeing Ambassadors have kicked this off this week by visiting our year 7 forms to see how they are all settling in and invite them to our upcoming events. It was lovely to see new year 7s at our Brew Monday in T04, enjoying a hot chocolate or milkshake with some biscuits while catching up with friends, this week the play doh and playing cards proved very popular. If you would like to come to our next Brew Monday, it is free to attend and we would love to see you there. We will be in T04 at 3.15 on Monday 13th October.
Year 11 and your exam periods can be a very stressful time, Kooth is a support network designed for 11-25 year olds, offering advice and support when you need it.
Kooth is a free safe and anonymous online platform for young people to find online support with their mental health and wellbeing. It is there if you are looking for advice or aren’t feeling yourself.
Kooth has a lot of different features available:
- You can access the magazine to read creative pieces, personal experiences and different opinions.
- Kooth’s moderated discussion boards have lots ideas for relaxing and dealing with stress
- You can set goals and tracking your achievement towards these.
- You can use their journals, designed to be like a personal diary to help you track your mood and identify behaviours or events that make you feel good or less positive.
- Kooth chat and messenger are available to chat to one of the team about how you are feeling.
To sign up to Kooth you just need to fill in a few details, these are not details that can be used to identify you, just overview details such as general location, year and month of birth.
