Meet our Wellbeing Champions.

At St Brendan’s, we recognise the influence positive mental health and wellbeing can have on all members of our school community, especially our pupils’ development. The UN Rights of a Child also inform us that pupils should have a voice that is listened to. the role of our Wellbeing Champions is to ensure our children’s opinions on mental health and wellbeing is respected and influences the wellbeing provision of the school.

Our Wellbeing Champions are from years 4, 5 and 6 which means they have the experience and maturity to provide peer to peer support. They work closely with Mr McQuaid, our Mental Health Lead, to promote positive mental health and wellbeing to the whole school community by:

• Achieving the Wellbeing Award for Schools and being recognised for the effective wellbeing provision provided for pupils, parents and staff.
• Being a positive role model and promote a healthy lifestyle, especially the importance of exercise, a balanced diet and responsible screen time.
• Providing our pupils with the knowledge and skills on how to look after their own wellbeing. For example promoting the 5 ways to wellbeing.
• Promoting our Golden Values around school and help ensure our anti-bullying policy is followed by all.
• Informing fellow pupils with updates around mental health and advising others with wellbeing tips. They do this by leading assemblies and creating a wellbeing working wall in the corridor.
• Keeping parents up to date with relavent information regarding their child and wellbeing. They do this by handing out leaflets during parents evening, providing updates on the school newsletter and creating a list of wellbeing/ mental health links on the school’s website.
• Planning and leading themed days around national and international events like Children’s Mental Health Day.

More information can be found on our Wellbeing at St Brendan’s webpage by clicking here

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