Mental Health & Wellbeing
Overview
Good mental health and wellbeing helps students:
- Develop
- Attend School
- Engage in Learning
- Fulfil their Potential
School contributes to wellbeing by providing:
- A Safe, Calm and Supportive Learning Environment
- Early Targeted Support for Pupils and Learners who need help
We promote positive wellbeing and raise awareness of the importance of talking about our mental health through personal development lessons, assemblies, form time activities, mentoring, student voice activities and June activity day sessions.
A range of other individual & group sessions are provided by our internal pastoral and Alpha Centre inclusion team and external providers on a variety of themes:-
- Anger Management
- Bereavement
- Self-Esteem
- Resilience
- Eating Disorders
- CBT
- Positive Relationships & Friendships, Bullying
- Social Chat Group
- Young Carers Group
- LEGO Therapy
- Drawing & Talking Therapy
- Social Stories & Comic Strip Conversations
- Zones of Regulation
- Emotional Literacy
- Anxiety Clinic
Mental Health Staff Support
In addition to form tutors and key workers, the following people are available to students and parents to talk about their mental health and refer students for specialist support with our internal and external counsellors in school and other organisations.
- Miss J Williams - Our Senior Learning Mentor & Mental Health First Aider (Alpha Centre)
- Miss B Naughton - Pastoral Mentor & Mental Health First Aider (Alpha Centre)
Both provide our invaluable triage and one-to-one emotional support in school and liaise closely with CAMHS and other agencies.
Heads of Year:
- Miss L Tompson (Year 7)
- Miss G Lister (Year 8)
- Miss B Kearns (Year 9)
- Mrs R Addison (Year 10)
- Mr B Evans (Year 11)
Pastoral Heads of School:
- Mr M Leadbeater
- Miss K Wells
The Safeguarding Team:
- Miss J Halliday (Child Protection Officer & Designated Safeguarding Lead)
- Miss E French (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
- Miss C Stringer (Designated Lead for Looked After Children)
Senior Mental Health Leads:
- Miss C Eastwood
- Miss L Chatburn
Mental Health Online Resources
Further Support for Students & Parents
Kooth.com
Frequently asked questions for parents and carers
Is a free, safe and anonymous online support and counselling service for young people aged 11-18, to support mental wellbeing.
Mind Tameside, Oldham & Glossop (TOG)
A service with an extensive variety of services to support young people and their families.
YoungMinds Parents Helpline
0808 802 5544 - available 9.30am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday
For parents, guardians and carers.
YoungMinds Crisis Messenger
Text YM to 85258. Texts are free from most phone networks
Provides free 24-hour crisis support
BEAT Youthline
0808 801 0711 (Weekdays 9am-8pm; Weekends & Bank Holidays 4pm-8pm)
www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Offers online chat and telephone support to young people struggling with an eating disorder.
HOPELINEUK
Contact: 0800 068 4141 (9am-12am; 365 days a year)
www.papyrus-uk.org/papyrus-HOPELINE247
For young people experiencing suicidal thoughts.
SHOUT
Text SHOUT to 85258
Provides free, confidential, 24/7 text message support for anyone struggling to cope and anyone in crisis.
Childline
24-hour helpline 0800 1111
www.childline.org.uk/get-support/1-2-1-counsellor-chat
Provides a confidential telephone counselling service for any child under 19.
Self Help
They offer a wide range of support, services and opportunities for people living with mental health difficulties.
A user-led mental health charity based in the North of England. They offer a wide range of support, services and opportunities for people living with mental health difficulties.
CALM
The CALM service run by the Department of Health has a free, confidential helpline that runs from 5pm to midnight, Saturday to Tuesday. CALM is targeted at young men aged between 15 and 35, suffering distress due to mental health difficulties and/or drug dependency, but the helpline is open to anybody and calls will not show up on landline telephone bills.
Charlie Waller Trust
We work with young people, parents and carers, schools, colleges, universities and employers. All our work is based on sound evidence. It gives people the confidence and skills to look after their mental health.
Childhood Bereavement Network
www.childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk
The Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) is the hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK.
Cruse Bereavement Support
We help people through one of the most painful times in life – with bereavement support, information and campaigning.
Anxiety UK
We’ve grown to become a national organisation with an international reach, whilst retaining a user-led ethos – being run by and for those with anxiety. Many of our small staff team have their own lived experience and understand the distress, isolation and misery that anxiety can cause.
Depression Alliance
For almost 40 years, Depression Alliance has been bringing people together to end the loneliness and isolation that can come with depression. Raising awareness and campaigning to improve attitudes towards depression has been central to Depression Alliance's work. We are continuing to support the delivery of the 60 Depression Alliance self-help groups. Together, we won't give up until everyone with depression gets the support they need and the respect they deserve.
Citizens Advice
Free advice for a variety of problems that people may be facing.
Welfare Rights
www.tameside.gov.uk/welfarerights
We advise Tameside residents on a range of benefit and tax credit entitlements. The advice given by the service is completely independent, impartial, confidential and free. We have no ties to benefit agencies or other interested parties. The service recognises that individuals must make their own decisions, and that the role of the service is to give people the information they need to be able to exercise their rights. Benefits Freephone Advice Line. Mon, Tues & Thurs 9:30am-12:30pm.
Carer’s Centre
www.tameside.gov.uk/carers/centre
We can make sure you get the right support at the right time, to make life feel a little easier. Our Wellbeing Advisors can offer advice, guidance and signposting to meet the needs of you and the person you care for.
NSPCC
Help and advice for adults concerned about a child. It's never too soon to talk to us. And what you share could make a life-changing difference to a child.
The Proud Trust
The Proud Trust is a lifesaving and life enhancing organisation that helps LGBT+ young people empower themselves, to make a positive change for themselves, and their communities.
Mindline TransPlus+
www.mindinsomerset.org.uk/our-services/adult-one-to-one-support/mindline-trans
Mindline Trans+ is a confidential emotional, mental health support helpline and signposting service for people who identify as Trans, A Gender, Gender Fluid, Non-binary. We are also able to offer support to friends and family. We support everyone dealing with any Transgender issues, be it for they themselves, their parents, siblings, colleagues, friends, or professionals.
PAPYRUS
PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.