Our Mental Health and Wellbeing Vision

At Hangleton, we value mental health and physical health with the same importance. We teach our children that although we can not always see how well someone’s mental health might be, we all have our own mental health that we have a responsibility to tend to and care for.

We want our children to understand that all the emotions we feel are valid and need to be met with curiosity, reflection and empathy. Developing the language to talk through these emotions is the key to managing our mental health and wellbeing. We want all of our children to understand the need for a personal ‘tool belt’ that gives us the resilience to navigate this journey.

We equally understand that emotional resilience itself is a strategy that needs to be learnt, and we want to create a community that listens and that both children and staff have a clear network that they can access the appropriate support needed. Ultimately, we hope to equip our pupils with a strong understanding of what mental health and wellbeing is and a clear set of strategies that work to support their own development and growth.

Wellbeing for Parents

 

Keeping Active

Below, you can find lots of different ways to keep you fit and healthy at home. Lots of the activities can be accessed by all children in school, but some activities are more suited to our younger children and some are more suited to our older children.

Forest Schools Activities for Home

In these times when we are all spending more time on screens, click the link below to read about 10 fantastic activities to get your children out and about and away from the screen!

Forest School Ideas

Walking Bingo challenge by Bike It Brighton

Use these great bingo cards to help you look out for different things when out for your family walks. You will look around at the environment in your local area whilst out on your daily exercise. There are four bingo cards and one quiz.

You will need:

• Paper
• Pens
• Colouring pencils or felt tips (optional)
• A copy of this PDF from Bike It Lucy

The PE Hub

The PE Hub has lots of fun fitness activities and active games to try at home.

Try to do one fitness session and play one game each week if you can.

For Fitness – Click on the Fitness tab and start with session 1.

Watch any short video clips before you start so you know what to do, 3 things to remember:

1. Try your best
2. Rest when you need to
3. It’s okay to miss out an exercise if it’s too hard

For Games – Click on the Games tab and start with game 1.

Active 60 Home Challenge

Click here to find out how you can take part in the Active 60 Home Challenge at home. Can you complete 60 minutes of physical activity each day to reach 'Gold' level? 

NHS Change for Life

Change for life – 10 minute shake up games to do indoors are inspired by popular Disney characters.

BBC Supermovers

Just for Fun – has a wide variety of active videos and dance routines featuring famous faces from the Premier League and BBC.

Hangleton Daily Activities

Daily Activities – A list of great activities to do at home.

Daily Mile At Home

The Daily Mile at Home – brings you 3 new activities each week to do as a family. And remember, if you can't go outside with members of your family to complete your Daily Mile, you can all jog or power walk on the spot for 15 minutes in your home or garden instead. You can do it whilst listening to music, or even when watching TV! 

Youth Sport Trust

The Youth Sport Trust has lots of resources and videos to help you continue with PE at home, maintain physical activity levels and use active learning to teach a range of other subjects during the school closures.

Joe Wicks

PE with Joe – Join Joe Wicks for his famous PE lessons aimed at kids.