ROAR Primary
Who is the course for and what’s it about?
This course will support senior leadership teams in implementing a whole-school approach to mental health by developing a bespoke mental health and emotional wellbeing policy. This policy will support staff, pupils, parents, and carers by following the eight principles of the whole-school approach to mental health.
With 1 in 5 young people having some form of diagnosable mental distress and greater demands since the pandemic, it can sometimes seem like an impossible task for the emotional needs of our young people to fall on a pastoral team or just one go-to person.
The ROAR course will strengthen the senior leadership team by developing the knowledge and resilience of their staff to respond to the mental health needs of their young people, their families, and their own staff.
ROAR equips leads to be the first-line response for a child in distress. The course covers an overview of mental health and how we can respond to anxiety, low mood, depression, suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, and parental mental distress.
Case study
Watch how staff and pupils at Blessed Sacrament Primary School have embraced the ROAR approach throughout the school, in everyday life.
There is a need for staff training. However, this training should not aim to train staff to become mental health professionals. Instead, it should focus on how to recognise the signs of mental health problems, where to go to get help, what to expect from outside help and importantly what to do when staff do not get the help they know they should.
Member of staff, SEN school
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The RAISE Team also deliver a range of funded bitesize training courses.