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Mental health refers to your emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It influences how you think, feel, and behave in everyday life—and it also affects how you handle stress, relate to others, and make decisions. It’s a key part of overall health, just like physical health.

At Macmillan Academy, we are committed to promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing for all. We want all stakeholders to pursue healthy lives.

Curriculum Coverage

As part of our commitment to promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing, all Key Stage 3 and 4 students cover a wide range of topics during PSHE sessions.

Student Support

For students experiencing mental health difficulties, the academy offers a wide range of support and resources. Students are guided towards the most appropriate support pathway to meet their individual needs. These may include:

  • Student Support Base — a quiet and supportive space for students experiencing difficulties.
  • Learning Support Base — tailored support for students with Special Educational Needs (SEN).
  • A variety of wellbeing and self-esteem programmes delivered by the intervention team.
  • One-to-one and group support provided by our Emotional Literacy Support Assistant following a referral process.
  • One-to-one support provided by our Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner, through Teesside MIND, following a referral process.
  • MCR Pathway (1:1) — in-school mentoring (Motivation, Commitment, Resilience) that matches students with a volunteer mentor who meets them for one period a week, building a trusted relationship over time that improves confidence, aspirations, attendance and post-school destinations.
  • MCR Pathway (Group Work) — in-school mentoring (Motivation, Commitment, Resilience) that supports students in a group setting, improving confidence, aspirations, attendance and post-school destinations over time.
  • Support from InsideOut through regular huddle meetings with key staff.
  • The academy also signposts pupils and families to local organisations and specialist services where appropriate, including Kooth, The Bungalow Partnership, Hart Gables and The Junction.

Help & Support

During PSHE, we explore a range of topics that can sometimes feel personal, sensitive or difficult to talk about.
 
If you have been affected by any of the topics covered in PSHE, or you are worried about yourself or someone else, you do not have to deal with it alone.
 
The help sheets below have been designed to give you clear, reliable information about where you can find help, advice and support. Each sheet is linked to a PSHE topic and includes organisations and services you can turn to if you need further support.
 
You can also speak to a trusted adult in school, such as your form tutor, PSHE teacher, Head of Year or a member of the safeguarding team.
 
Asking for help is always okay.
First unit : Health & Wellbeing 
Second Unit: Relationship & Sexual Education

Support for Families

For students experiencing difficulties, there are a number of different organisations that can provide support including Family Hubs, Kooth, Young Minds, Anna Freud and the NHS – Every Mind Matters.

For more information please view the mental health and wellbeing resources for children and young people and our mental health policy.

Mental health and wellbeing resources for children and young people
Mental Health Policy

Kooth

Kooth is an online platform to help young people with their mental health and wellbeing. It is a free service that provides safe, anonymous online support for young people. Young people can anonymously talk to other people their own age on moderated discussion forums, and chat to mental health professionals via messaging.

Kooth is a BACP-accredited digital mental health service and is available to young people throughout term time and the school holidays.

Inside Out

Inside Out is name for the Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland Mental Health Support Team. The aim of this team is to ensure that children and young people can access appropriate support to stay in education.

The Inside Out team support Macmillan Academy by helping us to deliver the ‘whole school’ approach to mental health and wellbeing. They support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues.

HeadStart

HeadStart promotes children and young people’s emotional wellbeing in schools, at home, in the community and online. The aim is to improve the emotional resilience of young people.

Macmillan Academy is a Head Start Gold Award school. We work with the team at Head Start to ensure that we enable young people to be able to cope in difficult circumstances.

There are many things that impact on the emotional well-being of children; falling out with friends, the pressures of social media, keeping up with studies. We want all our pupils to have good emotional health, to have the skills and confidence to cope, solve problems, achieve well and be happy. 

Headstart is a whole school approach where everyone feels safe and comfortable to be themselves, learn and develop in a positive environment and access support when needed.