https://www.childwallvalley.org/online-safety

The Department for Education (DFE) outlines the risks associated with new technologies:

"The use of technology has become a major factor in many safeguarding issues, including child sexual exploitation, radicalisation, and sexual predation. Technology often acts as a platform that facilitates harm. The range of online safety concerns is broad, but they can be categorized into three main areas of risk:

-Exposure to illegal, inappropriate, or harmful material

-Harmful interactions with other online users

-Personal online behavior that may lead to or cause harm.''

We understand that you may also need guidance at home, so we have provided the following links and resources.

·         Connect

·         Be active

·         Take notice

·         Keep learning

·         Give

Our Well-Being team is made up of children, parents, teachers, teaching assistants, SLT and governors. If you would like to join our Well-Being team please get in contact with Mrs Merrison.  

We recognise the impact of mental health and well-being on our whole lives.

We recognise that children's mental health is a crucial factor in determining their overall well-being and affects their ability to learn, develop and achieve.

We ensure that our children are able to manage times of change and stress and are supported in accessing help when they need it.

We also aim to ensure that all children learn about what they can do to maintain positive mental health, what affects their mental health, how they can reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and who and where they can go to, if they need help and support.

Over the course of their education, children spend over 7,800 hours at school.  With such a huge amount of time spent in the classroom, schools provide an ideal environment for promoting good emotional wellbeing and identifying early behaviour changes and signs of mental distress. The social and emotional skills, knowledge and behaviours that young people learn in the classroom can help them to build resilience and set the pattern for how they will manage their mental health throughout their lives.  Emotional wellbeing is a clear indicator of academic achievement, success and satisfaction in later life. Evidence shows that mental health and wellbeing programmes in schools, can lead to significant improvements in children’s mental health, and social and emotional skills. Wellbeing provision in schools can also lead to reductions in classroom misbehavior and bullying. 

We are aware that mental health difficulties can be extremely hard to talk about but urge you to speak to someone if you or your child need any support.

Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Merrison or Mrs Hoos, SENCO, Safeguarding and Mental Health Lead, if you need any support or advice.