Making Voices Matter for Children’s Mental Health Week
We spoke to charity, stormbreak, about supporting children’s mental wellbeing and raising self-worth
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and charity, Place2Be has launched its national awareness campaign aimed at promoting good mental wellbeing in our schools.
This year’s theme is My Voice Matters focused on helping children believe that whoever they are and whatever they have to say, it matters.
At Davies Sports, we believe that movement, activity and sport is good for mental wellbeing and that active children are happy children. It doesn’t mean everyone has to be an Olympic athlete, but partaking in a team challenge requires communication, coordination and adaptation. It also requires resilience which is key to establishing a healthy mental attitude. When children feel part of something their self-worth increases.
We’ve been speaking to stormbreak, a charity that works with trusted adults in education, health and social care to support primary aged children's mental health and emotional wellbeing through movement, for their approach to movement and positive mental health. Their inspirational content encourages all kinds of movement, not just through sport and PE, to help children understand and express their feelings. Have a look at their suggestions and try stormbreaking in your school during Children’s Mental Health Week.
To empower children to use their voice, self-worth matters. Children with healthy self-worth show an ability to recognise their value and are confident of their place in the world. They believe in themselves.
As trusted adults living with, working with and caring for children, we can use positive language to help children describe who they are, encourage giving and accepting compliments. A strong sense of self-worth empowers children to fulfil their goals, and have hopes and dreams for the future..
Listen to Victoria Stamp, Director of Emotional and Emotional Wellbeing at stormbreak, who explains what self-worth is.
Try these stormbreak activities in your classroom
To explore self-worth with children, share and watch this animation.
Try compliment collection, a movement activity to help children voice and grow their self-worth.
To help children to recognise and respond to their feelings try out stormbreak’s movement activity, Glitter Jar.
Try some of these products with your stormbreak activity
To discover more about stormbreak visit them on their social and help them to create more happy, healthy humans.
@hellostormbreak
@hellostormbreak
Facebook.com/hellostormbreak
For more ideas, visit the website at daviessports.co.uk/primary
