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

World Mental Health Day Whole School Assembly PowerPoint is a slideshow that helps children understand that everyone has mental health, for the day marked each year on 10th October. The content includes 16 slides with teacher notes, covering what mental health is, why everyone has mental health, what World Mental Health Day is and why it matters, five tools for looking after our minds, noticing our feelings, why mental health matters, a World Mental Health Day challenge and a final recap. It links to PSHE learning about mental wellbeing.

Everyone Has Mental Health

How our mental health can go up and down, just like our physical health, and how all feelings are normal, with questions such as "What words would you use to describe different feelings?"

Move, Talk, Breathe, Notice, Kindness

Five small tools children can try, from a stretch or a few slow breaths to naming three things they can see, hear and feel, asking "Who are some trusted adults you could talk to?"

Choosing a Tool

A challenge to choose one small thing to support your wellbeing today, ending with "Which tool will you try today?"

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.