Wellbeing Newsletters
Take a look at our weekly Newsletters on our dedicated Wellbeing website.
Archbishop Holgate’s approach to Wellbeing?
At Archbishop Holgate’s School we have packaged our Wellbeing programme into the ‘AHS 4 steps to Wellbeing’. This is summarised in the poster below:
It explains that:
- #AHS Cares: School provides an outstanding experience every day we aim to support all our students.
- #Self-Care: Self-care means taking some time out of your day for YOU. Caring for yourself and putting yourself first is so important! We have highlighted 5 areas to help you look after your own wellbeing.
- #Self-help: Sometimes you may struggle with your wellbeing even if you do look after yourself. What can you do if you are in that situation? There are lots of useful apps and websites that can help but we chosen the best ones to support you. These can be used in partnership with the #Self-Care ideas.
- #Support: At some point you may need to seek support from external sources. This is where school and professional services may help. Talk to your FT, HOY or PSW and they can you find the support you may need. We now have the following available:
- School Counsellor – CLICK HERE to find out more
- School Nurse – CLICK HERE to find out more
- Wellbeing service provided by CYC
To find out more about the ‘AHS 4 Steps to Wellbeing’, please visit: https://sites.google.com/archbishopholgates.org/4steps2wellbeing/home
We are currently:
- Completing the work towards gaining the ‘Wellbeing Award for schools’. CLICK HERE to find out more.
- Training our students to be Wellbeing ambassadors, so they can support others with their wellbeing. CLICK HERE to find out more.
If you need support?
If you need support please:
- Talk to a member of the pastoral team. We are there to help and offer advice. We can direct you to the most suitable resource.
Special Educational Needs
Emotional Health is related to many Special Educational Needs. to find out more please visit:
Self-care techniques and general lifestyle changes can help manage the symptoms of many mental health problems. They may also help prevent some problems from developing or getting worse. Here are some tips for looking after yourself that you might find helpful.
- Think about what is affecting your wellbeing
- Build positive relationships
- Take time for yourself
- Look after your mental health
- Look after your physical health
- Ask for help if you need it
How Can parents and Carers Help?
Here are some of the best practices for parents to help improve the wellbeing of their children:
- Share worries and seek out support from friends and family.
- Live a healthy lifestyle by eating well, exercising, having fun and getting enough sleep.
- Stay well informed by finding out more about topics that concern them.
- Never stop talking and listening to their child through good times and bad.
- Seek help or advice if you are worried about your child.
What the School can do to Help
- We are completing Well-being activities every morning.
- Educate staff, parents, and students on symptoms of and help for emotional and mental health problems.
- Promote social and emotional competency and build resilience.
- Help ensure a positive, safe school environment.
- Teach and reinforce positive behaviour’s and decision-making.
- Encourage helping others.
- Provide students with training to become mental Health Champions in school.
- Provide students with clear information of who they should speak to if they feel they need support.
- Clearly advertise in school what support is available for students.
- Regularly update parents/carers about how we can help.
- Make referrals to other agencies on behalf of the family if required.
Useful Links and resources
Relate
RELATE offers relationship support, helping people of all ages, backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities to strengthen their relationships. Find out more about what they do and how they can help you here. They also offer Live chat for young people. Visit: www.relate.org.uk
Childline
Childline is available on the phone, online anytime. You can phone 0800 1111 or visit https://www.childline.org.uk/ to get support and advice.
Samaritans
Need support?
NHS
This site gives you really practicle and useful ideas about how to look after your own emotional wellbeing.
Action for Children
A website for parents offering support and advice for supporting teenagers:
www.actionforchildren.org.uk
CAMHS resources
A website full of resources for both students and parents.
Young Minds
Another site full of excellent resources: https://youngminds.org.uk/
Parent helpline: 0808 802 5544
Student helpline: Text the YoungMinds Crisis Messenger, for free 24/7 support across the UK if you are experiencing a mental health crisis. If you need urgent help text YM to 85258
York Mind
Any young person in the York area aged between 11-21 who is struggling with their mental health can text 07483167931 to arrange speaking to us around their mental health. They will get a text back within 48 hours to either arrange a phone call or a text conversation with us depending on their preference. If the young person wants to, they can then refer into either our 1-1 or group support.
There are Visual Arts and Self-Esteem, Wellbeing Toolkit, Words & Wellbeing and Mindfulness groups on zoom open to referrals for 11-15 year olds and 16-21 year olds.
To find out more visit: https://www.yorkmind.org.uk/how-we-help/refer/
Mind Shift
MindShift is a free app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it. Lists symptoms of anxiety. Offers strategies to manage worry, panic, conflict, ordinary anxiety, and three specialised categories of anxiety: test anxiety, social anxiety, and perfectionism. Also contains relaxation exercises.
https://www.anxietybc.com/resources/mindshift-app
Headspace
Teaches you the basics of meditation and mindfulness.
Download the app or visit: https://www.headspace.com/
For me
An ‘app’ designed by ChildLine to support young people up to the age of 19. The app covers many issues including self-harm, anxiety, bullying and body image issues.
Clear Fear App
The fear of threat, or anxiety, is like a strong gust of wind. It drags you in and makes you want to fight it or run away.
Instead, face your fear with the free Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.
www.clearfear.co.uk
Calm harm
Calm Harm is an award-winning app, using the basic principles of an evidence-based therapy called Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT).
Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can make it private by setting a password, and personalise the app if you so wish. You will be able to track your progress and notice change.
Stop, Breathe & Think
This app for meditation & mindfulness, has a unique approach that allows you to check in with your emotions.
The Mix
The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people. We are here to help you take on any challenge you’re facing – from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via our online community, on social, through our free, confidential helpline or our counselling service.
Think Ninja
This is a mental health app designed for 10 to 18-year olds to help them develop skills and resilience to stay well.
Kooth
Kooth is an online mental wellbeing community. Here you can access free and anonymous online support and counselling from accredited counsellors.
Calm
This app is fantastic for sleep, meditation, and relaxation.
