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“It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.”
What is Children’s Mental Health Week?
Children’s mental health charity Place2Be has set up Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 to highlight the importance of mental health for children and young people.
We all have mental health. Some people may have mental health problems. In fact, up to 1 in 4 of us will experience mental health problems at some time in our lives.
During Children’s Mental Health Week 2022, we can take some time to focus on mental health. Encourage children to think of how they can best look after their own mental health and how they can support family or friends with their mental health too.
When does Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 take place?
Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 will take place from February 7th to February 13th.
Schools, youth groups, various organizations and individuals across the UK will be taking part. You can get involved, too!
What is the theme for Children’s Mental Health Week 2022?
Each year there is a different theme for Children’s Mental Health Week. This year, the theme for Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 is ‘Growing Together’.
We can ask children how they feel they’ve grown so far and how else they’d like to grow in the future. This is an opportunity for children to reflect on their growth and be proud of themselves for it. It’s also great for us to praise children on how they’ve grown too!
Set some time aside for children to think about what skills they’d develop, what personal qualities they’d like to cultivate and what goals they’d like to achieve in the coming year. This will help them become even more inspired and motivated to grow!
We can also focus on ways that we can all grow together, through taking time to reflect on how we can all support others with their growth. Children can think of ideas and ways to encourage their friends and family to grow along with them, and how they can all support each other with their goals.
Some activity ideas for ‘Growing Together’:
- Children can draw a picture of how they’ve grown emotionally and personally over the last year.
- Encourage children to write down their goals for the next year. They could write these on different coloured papers and put them in a jar that they can look at to keep motivated. Alternatively, children could write these on a colourful image like a shield with a different goal in a different quarter, which you can turn into a lovely classroom display or bedroom decoration.
- Have a class discussion about mental health and ideas for looking after our well being.
- Get children to write down ideas about how to support each other on pieces of paper and put these in a suggestion box, which you can read out to the class.
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