my Happy mind

We are proud to be a myHappymind school!  

myHappymind is a whole school programme that teaches our children to understand how their brain works to control their thoughts and feelings. It focuses on understanding neurodevelopment and neuroplasticity in a child friendly way. It is an NHS-backed curriculum in primary schools, secondary schools, and nurseries and is focused on building resilience, self-esteem, and happiness in children. This ties in closely with our school values as well as our PSHE curriculum.

It is an award-winning programme that has received national recognition for its exceptional work with schools, nurseries, families, and organisations across the UK. The programme is backed by NHS and uses wellbeing strategies firmly rooted in science, research, and the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology.

Learn more here: https://myhappymind.org/ myHappymind

Happy Breathing

One of our favourite tools to make us feel happier and settled is happy breathing. Children are taught that when we feel scared or anxious, the amygdala part of our brain takes over and stimulates our fight, flight or freeze reaction. The only way to turn this off is to bring as much oxygen as you can to your brain, so we breathe in and out slowly; this is happy breathing! Ask your child about happy breathing – they will be happy to show you! 

The children work through 5 modules: 

	Meet Your Brain Understanding how your brain works and how to ensure we look after it so that we can manage our emotions and be at our best. Growth mindset is a key part of this too.
	Celebrate Understanding your unique character strengths and learning to celebrate them. This is a fantastic module for building self esteem.
	Appreciate Understanding why gratitude matters and how you can develop gratitude as a habit. Gratitude is key to wellbeing and resilience and we’re all about making it a habit!
	Relate Understanding why positive relationships matter and how to build them. We’re focussed on the building blocks of good relationships and friendships.
	Engage Understanding how to set meaningful goals that matter and how to keep resilient in times of challenge. This module is all about building self esteem and resilience too.

We are proud to announce that we are a myHappymind Bronze Accredited school!

This means that as a school we consider the mental health and wellbeing of our children as one of our top priorities. We have created a whole school culture that helps build our children's resilience, confidence and self esteem as well as teaching them how to self regulate in those stressful times.

 This Accreditation badge has been awarded thanks to all the effort our staff, children, governors and parents have put in to bring the lessons of myHappymind to life all around our school!

To Learn more about the myHappymind for Schools programme visit their website here - https://myhappymind.org/

Parent App Information:

We will share the Parent App Code with you individually but below is the link to the Parent Introduction Video that may be helpful:

https://myhappymind.lpages.co/myhappymind-parent-app-introduction