Children's Mental Health Week 2025
'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'.
The aim is to encourage C&YP to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. This will help them grow and develop resilience to cope with what life throws at them.
childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
Free resources / activities
Place2Be
- Place2Be schools' pack
- Place2Be Resources for families
Others
- Thrive UK – Emotion videos / webinar / free resources register to receive resources sent directly - we love the videos exploring emotions!
- ELSA Support Know Yourself Grow Yourself free downloads
- Be Happy Resources: Inside Me My Emotions Characters activities some free to download / others free when your subribe
- MEAB My Emotions Activity Book
- BBCTeach - wellbeing videos to support CMHW
- SkyArts - Have some art activities related to CMHW for KS1 and KS2
- Kooth - are running virtual sessions for schools during the week (plus there's a pre-recorded session if you can't make the live ones) and they also have some free resources to download. (and here's a link to sign up to their mailing list to get info / resources direct)
- Mentally Healthy Schools - Primary Toolkit / Secondary toolkit
- Young Minds are running a CMHW design competition with M&S
Exploring my Emotions (Thrive)
Thrive have created some super videos for primary and secondary age pupils to explore emotions
Booklet (with links to all videos)
Indivdual videos:
Primary
Secondary
Headstart Kernow supporting Know Yourself / Grow Yourself
Much of what we do to support C&YP's wellbeing centres on helping them develop greater self awareness and emotional literacy alongside coping skills and strategies.
Our resources for C&YP, schools and parent & carers reflect this:
My Brilliant Place to be ME! activity book (KS2) which includes sections on:
- All about me
- Name it to tame it
- You've got this
Resilience Hero - our online 'visual novel' that explores the resilience framework
The recently published Resilient Moves Card Deck
"Understanding Emotions: It’s OK to Feel"
During CMHW 2025 we'll be focusing our social media and activity ideas on understanding and managing emotions.
With a different post / activity idea / challenge each day for C&YP / School Staff and Parents
- Name it to Tame It
- Worry is Normal
- Find the Joy around You
- Feeling Sad is OK
- Supporting Emotional Literacy in the Classroom
- Parents, Let's Talk about Feelings
Everyone has feelings. Feelings are simply feelings, there are no 'right' or 'wrong' / 'good' or 'bad' feelings...
Whe we can recognise and name our feeling, it can help us understand what's happening and find ways to cope with uncomfortable feelings...
"It’s normal to feel worried sometimes. You’re not alone. Talking about your worries with someone you trust can help them feel smaller. Remember we can talk about anything even if feels awful or small.
Joy can be found in small, everyday moments. Whether it's your favourite song, a warm cup of tea, or playing outside—look for little sparks of happiness!
Some top tips for school staff
Advice and information for parents about toalking to children about feelings...