At St James we take the mental health and well-being of our pupils seriously. While we recognise our responsibility to ensure our children are given every opportunity to be the best they can be academically, we also understand that we need to help equip them fully for life beyond school, including teaching them how to be resilient and how to cope when things don’t go to plan.

We aim to promote positive mental health through all we do, recognising that children need to be both resilient and mentally healthy in order to meet their full potential both academically and in life more widely.

When teaching about mental health we aim to give children the information that they need to make good decisions about their own wellbeing. It should enable them to recognise what is normal and what is an issue in themselves and others and, when issues arise, know how to seek support as early as possible from appropriate sources.

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