Mental Health e-learning ‘Train the Trainer’ Course

This has been designed in conjunction with CYPS and is an incredibly accessible tool.

Course Aims

To help all primary and secondary school staff to understand the more common mental health problems children and young people may face.

To recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems

To guide a child or young person towards the right support

To help children and young people cope and manage their lives.

This course is for:

All primary and secondary school staff wishing to develop their knowledge and skills around Mental Health. It is intended that after receiving training, delegates will then ask questions on how to then deliver the package themselves. All participants will need a laptop or tablet and internet access to complete the session, which lasts 90 minutes.

If you would like the trainer to come in to school to deliver this FREE training, to arrange a date please email us with your name, school name, phone number and possible dates to ghll@Gloucestershire.gov.uk

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Primary Reslience resource - Make Me a Superhero

Make Me a Superhero is a new resource written by the GHLL team. This practical session introduces this primary resource for promoting personal resilience and to help children gain a better understanding of how we all have 'super' skills or talents that shape our interactions with the world and enrich our relationships with one another. The resource is suitable for Key Stages 1 and 2.

Are you wanting to develop your Anti-bullying and Equalities work in your primary school?

Do you want ideas for activities for anti-bullying week as well as a scheme of work for all year groups?

This training will provide delegates with the newly updated Anti-bullying and Equalities GHLL scheme of work, including a range of practical activities and ideas for lessons for Reception to Year 6 pupils. We will also aim to address any concerns you may have about issues surrounding bullying and equality, as well as sharing general good practice.

Please bring along your school’s current Anti-Bullying Policy if possible, as we will also be looking at effective policies and their impact.

This interactive CPD session shares the implementation, and outcomes, of GHLL’s positive playtimes practice. With the introduction of zoned playgrounds, that directly link to the ‘5 ways of wellbeing’, incidents of isolation and poor behaviour have dropped dramatically. These zones not only provide a wellbeing boost for all pupils, but also through planning with the midday supervisors, enable more vulnerable pupils to get targeted boosts in their specific areas of need. This Positive Playgrounds practice not only gives schools the tools to target pupils who need wellbeing boosts, but also shares what wellbeing is, why it is important and how to assess the wellbeing impact you currently have on your pupils.

Get ready to connect, be active, know yourselves, learn something new and give your time

Following on from the publishing of our FREE Planning and Resource Pack for Relationships and Sex Education, we are offering a half day training session to provide teachers with the knowledge and confidence to plan and deliver a progressive programme of RSE across the primary age range.

Led by GHLL Lead Teachers, the session will cover:

*Current statutory requirements for RSE, including policies and curriculum

*Understanding the importance of good RSE teaching

*Clear guidance for good classroom practice, including ideas for activities

*Suggestions for dealing with awkward questions, setting ground rules and managing parental concerns

If your setting has already collected their new RSE Resource please bring it with you. Alternatively if it has not been collected, please let us know when booking so we can make sure it is there for you on the day.

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

FREE TRAINING

For professionals working in Gloucestershire schools/colleges.

What does it mean to be trans, gender neutral or an MSM?  We invite you to explore gender fluidity and sexual orientation with us including the impact discrimination and ignorance can have on people's lives.

To book a place: please email Naomi.Cooper@eddystone.org.uk 

This course is open to all professionals who work with secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

Tea and coffee will be provided but please bring your own lunch.

9.00am Registration and tea/coffee.      9.30am Start of Training

A valuable training opportunity as part of our response to what CYP have said in the OPS about emotional health and wellbeing as well as something that will count towards schools accreditation for GHLL. This course will lift the lid on the mystery that surrounds mental health and shows teachers and support staff how to deliver sessions that encourage children to talk about mental health.

Delegates will each receive a copy of The Primary Mental Health Handbook. It is a very comprehensive resource with background reading and information, a DVD and lesson plans for Key Stage 2. The handbook contains all the worksheets and plans that may be photocopied and staff attending the training will have the opportunity to try out some of the activities to enable them to feel more confident.

Please note that the £30 GHLL charge for this course is a contribution towards the cost of the Primary Mental Health Handbook.

'Keeping Myself Safe' is based on the Protective Behaviours programme and is a school-based resource designed to teach KS1 and Upper KS2 children:

• that they all have the right to be safe all the time
• how to recognise situations where they do not feel safe
• how to manage unsafe situations
• how to recognise their network of support

The resource can be used alongside other GHLL resources to help schools deliver elements of the PinK Curriculum, and in particular the ‘Developing Risk Management’ theme at both KS1 and KS2.

Relationships and sex education (RSE) should be delivered by competent and confident educators.

This new resource has been written and collated by lead teachers from GHLL and a specialist sexual health nurse. It is suitable for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.

GHLL offers this course for delivery of Secondary RSE to support the continued professional development (CPD) of teachers, PSHE leads, school nurses, youth workers and others involved in teaching RSE and providing one-to-one advice to children and young people.

The training shows guidelines in what to deliver in the Secondary RSE programme, sample lessons, some resources available, useful links, and PowerPoints. Also, guidance on how to deal with sensitive issues.

The course will take staff through the resource showing how it can be used by new staff in it’s entirety or as a pick and mix for those with more experience who want information and resources for a specific area.

It will allow staff to deliver the RSE programme with confidence. It will also give suggestions on the essential RSE polices and information to parents.

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Primary Reslience resource - Make Me a Superhero

Make Me a Superhero is a new resource written by the GHLL team. This practical session introduces this primary resource for promoting personal resilience and to help children gain a better understanding of how we all have 'super' skills or talents that shape our interactions with the world and enrich our relationships with one another. The resource is suitable for Key Stages 1 and 2.

This MHFA course will teach you how to:

• Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
• Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
• Provide help on a first aid basis
• Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
• Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
• Help a young person recover faster
• Guide a young person towards the right support
• Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

Are you wanting to develop your Anti-bullying and Equalities work in your primary school?

Do you want ideas for activities for anti-bullying week as well as a scheme of work for all year groups?

This training will provide delegates with the newly updated Anti-bullying and Equalities GHLL scheme of work, including a range of practical activities and ideas for lessons for Reception to Year 6 pupils. We will also aim to address any concerns you may have about issues surrounding bullying and equality, as well as sharing general good practice.

Please bring along your school’s current Anti-Bullying Policy if possible, as we will also be looking at effective policies and their impact.

This interactive CPD session shares the implementation, and outcomes, of GHLL’s positive playtimes practice. With the introduction of zoned playgrounds, that directly link to the ‘5 ways of wellbeing’, incidents of isolation and poor behaviour have dropped dramatically. These zones not only provide a wellbeing boost for all pupils, but also through planning with the midday supervisors, enable more vulnerable pupils to get targeted boosts in their specific areas of need. This Positive Playgrounds practice not only gives schools the tools to target pupils who need wellbeing boosts, but also shares what wellbeing is, why it is important and how to assess the wellbeing impact you currently have on your pupils.

Get ready to connect, be active, know yourselves, learn something new and give your time

This course is open to all professionals who work with secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

Tea and coffee will be provided but please bring your own lunch.

9.00am Registration and tea/coffee.      9.30am Start of Training

This course is open to all professionals who work with secondary age young people in Gloucestershire, including teachers, senior leaders, pastoral managers, tutors, learning support workers and parent support advisors.

These courses are facilitated by Satveer Nijjar BSc (Hons) Psychology, a motivated and inspirational speaker.

Topics covered include:

• defining self-harm
• statistics on self-harm
• what leads to self-harm in young people
• what the functions of self-harm are for the young person
• myths and language use in relation to self-harm
• risk in relation to self-harm
• supporting someone who self-harms, including practical strategies

Tea and coffee will be provided but please bring your own lunch.

9.00am Registration and tea/coffee.      9.30am Start of Training