Archive for the ‘Mental Health’ Category
April 27th, 2010 | 
Author: Topic: Mental health
Target Age Group: P7 – S4
Title of Resource: How u feeling?
Type of Resource: Education Pack
Purpose of Resource: To enable 11-16 year olds to take part, and to fit in with the PSHE / PSE / PD / Health and Wellbeing curriculum and to raise children and young people’s awareness of how to get help and support when they need it.
Content: The Education Pack contains lesson plans, activities and curriculum resources. To enable 11-16 year olds to take part, and to fit in with the PSHE / PSE / PD / Health and Wellbeing curriculum, we have produced a teachers’ pack, including:
- easy to use instructions
- an assembly presentation, including two short mini movies
- a lesson plan, including an interactive whiteboard exercise and paper-based alternative.
Support required: None
How to source: A copy of the Education Pack is available from this website and copies of the mini movies and interactive whiteboard exercises are available from
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/resourcesforteachers/classroomresources/how_u_feelin_wda69833.html
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Topic: Mental health
Target Age Group: P1 – P7
Title of Resource: Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment
Type of Resource: Learning Pack
Purpose of Resource: To help children control impulsive behaviour, improve their emotional and social well being and improve their capacity to learn.
Content: The programme sets out a series of health and wellbeing outcomes and expected behaviours. Children are asked to perform tasks following a set of rules, these tasks include problem solving and analytical thinking. FIE materials are organised into a series of 14 workbooks, called “instruments”. The instruments are free of subject matters, they comprise paper and pencil tasks, and each instrument focuses on a specific cognitive function. The tasks gradually increase in difficulty level and abstraction. By using these tasks students develop strategies to solve problems which they can apply to life.
It helps children understand the impact of their behaviour on themselves and others and encourages them to adopt key cognitive attitudes to their classroom activities which are designed to improve their attitude to learning and their capacity to learn. The programme is designed to support vulnerable children and children with emotional and behavioural difficulties
Support required: Training is required before the programme can be implemented.
How to source: Information on the programme can be obtained from http://www.feuersteintraining.co.uk
Topic: Mental health
Target Age Group: P1 – P7
Title of Resource: R U? series
Type of Resource: Leaflets
Purpose of Resource: To help children express their feelings.
Content: A series of guides aimed at children to help them cope with stressful situations. Topics include being worried, being sad, dealing with friends and bereavement
Support required: None
How to source: Downloadable from website:
Topic: Mental health
Target Age Group: P1 – P7
Title of Resource: The Big Bag of Worries
Type of Resource: Book and cards
Purpose of Resource: To help children express their worries and begin to overcome them.
Content: The Huge Bag of Worries Book shows Jenny who, wherever Jenny goes, her worries follow her – in a big blue bag! They are there when she goes swimming, when she is watching TV, and even when she is in the loo. Jenny decides that they will have to go. But who can she get to help her?
Once the children have read the book the each child then writes down a worry on the worry cards included. The children put the worry in the worry bag and then you can pick one out at a time and discuss them in the class. This is a good way to discuss children’s worries anonymously.
Includes 32 worry cards.
Support required: None
How to source: The Big Bag of Worries is available from
http://www.specialdirect.com/Product.aspx?cref=TTSPR596687
at a cost of £33.09 (inc VAT)
Topic: Mental health
Target Age Group: P1 – P7
Title of Resource: Blob Tree
Type of Resource: Diagram and game
Purpose of Resource: To help children express how they feel.
Content: The Blob Trees illustrate a range of different emotions which children then use to explain how they feel. The Blob Tree can be used before and after any interventions which allow you to determine what impact your support has had on the child’s emotional health and wellbeing.
Support required: None
How to source: Downloadable PDF from website