What's included in the Children's Mental Health Week Whole School Assembly PowerPoint resource and why is it useful?

Children's Mental Health Week Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that helps children understand that mental health is just as important as physical health. The content includes 10 slides with teacher notes, covering what mental health is, what the week is about, good days and tricky days, helping others feel supported, looking after our mental health, mental health in school, a reflection and follow-up activities. It links to PSHE learning about health and wellbeing.

What Is Mental Health?

How mental health includes our emotions, our thoughts and how we deal with challenges, and why it can change from day to day, with questions such as "How many different feelings have you felt so far today?"

Good Days and Tricky Days

Why all of our feelings are normal, the small actions that help us feel better and the adults in school who are there to help, asking "What does being a good listener look like?"

Let's Learn More

Follow-up ideas, including a poster showing ways to look after mental health, a kindness challenge for the week and a feelings chart using words or colours.

How do our whole school assemblies work?

Our whole school assemblies are PowerPoint slideshows that follow a similar structure: an introduction, questions to get children thinking, the key points of the topic and reflection time. They're paced to suit a primary school assembly and work best on a whiteboard, projected out to the hall. You can use them:

• as a whole school assembly, from EYFS up to KS2
• as a class assembly
• as a teaching PowerPoint when you want to cover an event or topic in your own classroom

The majority of our assemblies include teacher notes and guidance to support delivery, and because they're pacey, you can adapt them to however long your assembly lasts.

Adapting the Assembly for Your School

Every assembly is editable, so you can add, remove or change slides to suit the needs of your school. We cover religious events, seasonal topics, values such as kindness, friendship and tolerance, science, history, PSHE, music, significant people and sporting events, so you can choose the assemblies that fit your school year.

Supporting Learning at Home

Families can carry the conversation on at home by asking children about their assembly: what they heard, how it made them feel and what they think about it.

You can explore more of our whole school assembly resources here.