EH&WB: Teaching and Learning Materials (Secondary)

The Be Real Campaign’s mission is to change attitudes to body image and help all of us put health above appearance and be confident in our bodies. They have produced a toolkit for schools because it is essential that body confidence begins from an early age. Secondary schools are a key setting for young people to discuss and challenge body confidence issues, with both teachers and students playing an important role in how this happens. Somebody Like Me and In Your Face research show that body confidence has a direct impact on students’ academic performance and general wellbeing.

A selection of resources to raise awareness of steps young people can take to support their physical and emotional health whilst recognising the influences, limitations and constraints on these decisions.

A toolkit of resources to support mental health of young people.

Free resources for parents, professionals and others interested in mental and emotional wellbeing. 

Free resources to provide a specific but flexible pathway to enable children to consider ways to develop resilience, reducing risk-taking and considering safer options. 

The Mind Matters Team (applying mindfulness) has been helping people to improve their health, well-being, and personal / team performance in: individuals, organisations, education (secondary schools) and the NHS

MindEd is a free educational resource on children and young people's mental health for all adults.

FREE BBC Resources.

Stonewall provide resources to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in education environments and help create more inclusive spaces.

DigitalApps library brings together a number of digital tools that you can use for your health and care.

The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), in partnership with the Anna Freud Learning Network, has developed its first ever online eLearning module.

‘Measuring mental wellbeing to improve the lives of children and young people’

This eLearning aims to increase the awareness, understanding and confidence of non-specialist and school staff who support the wellbeing and mental health of children or young people to access the benefits associated with measuring mental wellbeing. This free interactive short course aims to demystify and simplify the whole process of using outcomes and feedback measures to monitor mental wellbeing and is laid out in six easy to follow parts:

1. Understanding mental wellbeing
2. Introduction to outcome measures
3. The benefits of measuring mental wellbeing
4. Selecting and using measures
5. Best practice using measures
6. Using and interpreting data

Outcome measurement has become a focus of funders, commissioners and policy makers, as a tangible and reliable way in which to assess the welfare of children and young people in the care of wellbeing services and schools. The process can also have important benefits for the children and young people themselves as well as for associated professionals, projects, interventions and services.

This course features engaging activities and quizzes to illustrate how staff can choose and use measures to monitor wellbeing and how to analyse wellbeing information to drive improvement and demonstrate effectiveness.

To access the course please download these instructions and go to eLearning.corc.uk.net