This Mental Health Assembly is targeted at Secondary School students. The assembly encourages students to prioritise their mental health. The assembly is interactive and includes the Anna Freud ‘Looking after our mental health’ resource clip that gives an accessible insight into mental health and supporting strategies. The assembly covers the following: -Explain the meaning of ‘mental health’. -To identify helpful ways of looking after our mental health. -To identify different ways to access further help and support

This assembly provides Primary School children with the knowledge to identify and recognise the different feelings that they experience and how these feelings can change and also impact their behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Through poetry and videos the assembly also focuses on informing children with a range of strategies to deal with their feelings in a healthy way.

Research has proven that ‘Self-esteem’ approaches are the most effective way of improving body image within children. It is important that from a young age children appreciate and respect their own appearance and their strengths whilst respecting those of others! This assembly contains the ‘Looking after my body and mind’ poem which is an engaging way to explore how amazingly different we all are, that difference is good and we should value and love our differences.