Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mental Health Support Team
The Mental Health Support Team support the mental health of children and young people in Reading schools. They offer the following courses for parents:
Children's Mental Health Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Week is an anual mental health awareness event launched by children's mental health charity, Place2Be. The week exists to empower, equip and give a voice to all children and young people in the UK.
This year, Children's Mental Health Week 2025 was held in February and focussed on Know Yourself, Grow Yourself to encourage children, young people and adults 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.
This year, Place2Be have partnered with Here4You, supported by The Walt Disney Company and the Inside Out 2 characters, to explore the theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.
In school we explored this theme over the week, concentrating on the importance of self-awareness and expressing emotions.
Place2Be also offer activities for families:
Sport in Mind
As part of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Sport in Mind visited on the school on Tuesday 4th February.
They ran a whole school assembly and workshops for children in Years 4, 5 and 6.
Sport in Mind ® is an award winning mental health charity that was formed in Reading in 2010 with a simple mission: "To improve the lives of people experiencing mental health problems through sport and physical activity".
Sport in Mind offers a range of weekly sport and physical activity sessions for children, young people and adults to promote mental well-being.
Beam Wellbeing
Beam Welleing offer school-based individual and group work sessions to support the emotional needs of children and young people.
