Emotional Wellbeing in Schools: Feedback about the MindMate Champions Programme – November 2018
Planned, carried out and reported with the help YouthWatch volunteers, this project looks at what school staff and students thought about the MindMate Champions programme, a programme designed to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools.
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Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) in schools
After speaking to 655 children and young people and staff in 13 schools, these were some of our findings, to see the full picture, read the report on the left.
Findings
MindMate lessons were generally very well received very well by primary school staff and students
Feedback from secondary school staff and students was more mixed
Staff made some really useful suggestions about how the programme could be improved
Interactive Map
Click on our interactive map to see how individual schools told us they were finding the MindMate programme
Infographic
Check out our cool, young people friendly, infographic (made by one of our YouthWatch volunteers), summarizing some of the key findings
Action Plan - Social, Emotional and Mental Health in Schools report
Highlights
Work with the Specialist Inclusive Learning Centres (SILCs) to create a specific resource bank for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) that could be used alongside the MindMate lessons.
Develop a resource bank for each of the six MindMate lessons themes to make it easier for schools to tailor the resources to better meet their needs
Create a MindMate Champions guidance pack for schools and use our interactive map to share good practice
Service Provider Response - One year on what's changed?
A year after we made our recommendations to the Health and Wellbeing Service about the MindMate Champions programme, we checked in with them to see what they’d done. As well as the highlights below, you can read the full update by clicking on the document on the left.
Highlights
The Health and Wellbeing Service are working with Space2 and a number of schools on a MindMate Ambassadors toolkit which will give schools a guide full of ideas and resources to empower their students to lead and evaluate SEMH (social, emotional and mental health) provision in their schools. Once distributed, it will enable them to give tailored support to schools.
They created a MindMate Guidance pack and got in touch with all schools to make clear the offer of support that can be offered with MindMate Champions process. They also offered several MindMate Champions guidance sessions across the academic year.
A consultant is currently in the process of reviewing all the resources and lesson plans and a newly launched online Knowledge Hub will serve as a network for PSHE teachers and schools to feedback improvements on the lessons.