Wellbeing Champions: A Complete Toolkit for Schools

Wellbeing Champions is a practical toolkit designed to support primary and secondary schools working with children to co-create a group of Wellbeing Champions. Full of detailed resources to support both the recruitment and training of children and young people to support others in their school settings, this book has been carefully created to ensure that emotions, self-care, resilience, communication and support systems are considered in order to promote and support positive mental health and wellbeing throughout the school setting.

Containing ideas for specific training as well as considering a whole school approach, the resources and tools have been designed to support practitioners, teachers, children and young people to find out what their school does well and to identify areas for development. With a wealth of photocopiable resources, including supervision and training sessions, risk assessments, application forms, feedback forms and certificates, this book offers:

• all the practical resources needed to recruit and interview children and young people for the role, including an outline job description and personal specifications
• a manual that enables teachers to recruit, train and develop the role of Wellbeing Champions within their school
• support to teachers and Wellbeing Champions to develop the role needed within their school
• easy-to-follow, user-friendly sections that can be easily adapted
• lessons and activities that support the Wellbeing Champions and help them understand their role and develop the knowledge and skills to support other young people

Packed full of activities to help promote and support social and emotional skills development and positive mental health and wellbeing within schools at KS2, KS3 and KS4, Wellbeing Champions is the ideal resource for teachers and practitioners, focused on pastoral development, mental health and wellbeing and social and emotional development in children and young people.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1: Thinking and finding out

2: Selection and Training: Creating Something Special Together

3: Supervision: Reflective Practice

4: Learn, Talk and Share: Developing the Role of the Wellbeing Champions