Mental Health and Wellbeing
Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing at Inglehurst Infant School
At Inglehurst Infant School, we care about the physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing of every member of our school community. Life can bring challenges, and sometimes we all need a little extra support.
We believe that positive mental health is everyone’s responsibility, and together we can create an environment where children, families, and staff feel supported and understood.
Why Mental Health Matters
- Around 1 in 10 children and young people experience mental health difficulties such as anxiety or depression.
- Good mental health helps children build resilience, cope with life’s ups and downs, and grow into healthy, confident adults.
- Research shows that more young people face mental health challenges today than 30 years ago, often due to changes in lifestyle and society.
Dealing with Change
Most changes—like starting school or moving house—don’t cause mental health problems on their own. But for some children, big changes or traumatic events can be triggers.
Starting school can feel exciting for many children, but for others, it may bring anxiety. We understand these feelings and are here to help.
The last few years have brought huge changes for everyone, making mental health support more important than ever.
Our Mental Health Offer
For details about our school’s mental health and wellbeing support, please visit our SEMH page as part of our Early Help offer.
Ms Pochin is our Senior Mental Health Lead. She works with staff, families, and governors to ensure our mental health provision meets the needs of our whole school community.
Mrs Parker our Attendance, Welfare and Child Protection Officer and Edwina Osborne, our Family Support Worker are both trained as Mental Health First Aiders.
Where to Find Extra Support
Here are some trusted resources for children, young people, and families:
Calm Harm https://calmharm.co.uk/
An app which provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm.
CAMHS https://www.camhs-resources.co.uk/
A site created for young people, carers and professionals to pool together lots of helpful resources from across the internet that are available to help support your mental health and wellbeing.
Young people’s mental health support https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Non-health-professionals-Mental-health-support-across-LLR-At-a-Glance-6-Nov-25.pdf - I think that this is for professionals to use not to send to parents.
My Self-referral LLR https://www.myselfreferral-llr.nhs.uk/
Mental health support for young people, on this website you can access information to support yourself and refer yourself to mental health support if you fall under certain criteria.
Early Intervention Service (Relate)
https://www.relateleicestershire.org.uk/children-young-people-counselling.htm
The Early intervention Service is an emotional wellbeing and therapeutic support service for children and young people between the age of 5-18 years old living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland with low/moderate mental health needs. They offer the Flourish (8-17) and Prosper (parents of children) groupwork programme which aims to equip people with a better understanding of mental and emotional health. To access this service, you can ask your GP or refer yourself through https://www.myselfreferral-llr.nhs.uk/
Heads Up https://www.headsupleicester.org.uk/https://www.headsupleicester.org.uk/gettingonbetter.html
Can help with young people and their parents/ carers with challenging behaviour, Parental Conflict, mental ill-health, anxiety and/or social, emotional, or behavioural difficulties.
Stop Breathe Think. https://www.stopbreathethink.org.uk/
Mental health support, access to free 1-1 counselling and text support service.
Teenage Help Line https://teenagehelpline.org.uk/
The Mix https://www.themix.org.uk/
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.
Get Self Help https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/
This website provides CBT self-help and therapy resources.
Head Strong Mental Wellbeing for Young People- Utube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@beheadstronguk/shorts
Minded for Families https://mindedforfamilies.org.uk/young-people/
Safe and reliable advice about young people’s mental health, created by experts and parents together.
Sunrise Wellbeing CIC https://sunrisewellbeing.co.uk/
Provides information, advice and support for people living with Panic, Anxiety, Phobias and OCD.
www.nopanic.org.uk Helpline: 0844 967 4848 (10am-10pmevery day).
An app that helps young people manage emotions and reduce urges to self-harm. It includes a mood diary, toolbox of techniques to reduce distress and automatic routing to emergency numbers if urges to harm continue.
https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/blueice/
Learn to meditate and live mindfully with hundreds of themed sessions on everything from stress to sleep. Bite-sized meditations for busy schedules and SOS exercises in case of sudden meltdowns. Free trial then monthly or yearly subscription.