Mental Health & Wellbeing
Mental Health Team
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Mrs E Smith Mental Health Lead |
Mrs H Griffin Senior Mental Health Lead |
Mr A Soulsby Learning Mentor |
At Rice Lane, we are committed to promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing to all students, their families and members of staff and governors. Our dedicated Mental Health and Wellbeing Team are always on hand to offer support and advice. We work closely with a wide range of external support services and Education Mental Health Practitioners.
Please don’t hesitate to contact any of our team for advice or support.
At Rice Lane, we promote a whole-school approach to health and wellbeing as we understand that a healthy body and mind will enable our children to reach their full potential and to become lifelong learners. Our open culture allows students’ voices to be heard, and through the use of effective policies and procedures, we ensure a safe and supportive environment for all affected – both directly and indirectly – by mental health issues.
Our Wellbeing Team work closely with children, parents and carers to help support their emotional wellbeing and help promote a healthy family lifestyle. Children will have the opportunity to attend a number of different sessions including Calm Start, lunch time and after school clubs and take part in activities during special awareness and celebration days. Parents and carers will also have the opportunity to come along to parenting courses, coffee mornings and various activities throughout the year.
At Rice Lane, we are always developing our curriculum to include additional learning linked to wellbeing and we have recently rewritten our own bespoke PSHE curriculum.
Mental Health and wellbeing updates can be found on our school website and in our weekly newsletters.
Please see helpful links below:
Mental Health Champions
All KS2 children have recently taken part in a virtual launch of our new Mental Health Champions program. Over the next few months, we will be embedding this course throughout the school and electing Mental Health Champions in each class. Children will discover simple and practical ways to support their own mental health and that of others,
Our mission is to continue to create a supportive and resilient school community, while providing our children with the tools they need to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.
Over the past couple of years our school have took part in the NOW festival and we have won this is previous years.
The NOW Festival is a competition that celebrates mental health through performing arts. School across Mersyside, each get a 10 minute performace around their chosen theme and perform it to judges and other schools.
Check out or performance from 2025 where our children discussed the theme of ‘Mental Health and the Impact of Covid 19’.
We are lucky to have a Relax Kids after school club programme run in school each term.
Mrs Gilligan offers a 7 Step Programme which helps explore the benefits of the following:
– Movement
– Mindfullness
– Stretching
– Peer Massages
– Breathing
– Affirmations
– Visualisations
Relax kids has been a well loved practice at Rice Lane Primary School for multiple years and helps support children, and adults too, with their mental wellbeing.
For more information view their website: https://relaxkids.com/learn/ or Wellbeing with Lisa via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1B7iHY3sVV/?mibextid=wwXIfr