What - if anything - is your child's school doing to support mental health and wellbeing during lockdown?

[Upsidedownfrown]

I mean more for those children who are not currently in school. My eldest is in y7 and he/I have had a call from his tutor to check in with everything and make sure he's happy he can access the work, they've set up a Google classroom which is focused on mental health and wellbeing, they have an app where they want your child at least once a week to go on and just rate how they're feeling from a range of smiley/sad faces (I assume if it was very sad most of the time they would call) with the option of explaining why they chose the smiley.

My younger children's primary school seems to be doing nothing though. No contact from teacher except generalised comments or work feedback on teams (which my youngest can barely access anyway as it's impossible to differentiate work for his dyslexia).

Just wondering what any other schools have put in place for children who may be struggling a bit with their emotions?

(And before anyone jumps on, yes I am their parent, I look after them perfectly well but sometimes help, reassurance or even a chat is better coming from a teacher or such like)

Nothing. I'm so disappointed in them.

Sweet fuck all.

Do people really think teachers should be providing medical care without any qualifications or training? Mental health is the parents’ responsibility and there are charities and organisations you can contact if medical care is not available / appropriate on Nhs.

@slothbucket

Do people really think teachers should be providing medical care without any qualifications or training? Mental health is the parents’ responsibility and there are charities and organisations you can contact if medical care is not available / appropriate on Nhs.

I'm in utter agreement with you here. I'm secondary, vulnerable and WFH and I set work, Mark and email cheerful emails a couple of times a week to all classes as well as chasing work.

It has honestly never occurred to me that any parents would expect me to be phoning up from my home phone and at my own expense to check on mental health.

School sent some links to wellbeing guidance online.

The only thing my kids schools are doing to provide work or support during lockdown is send links to stuff online - bbc bitesize, SAM learning etc.

There's been no phone calls, no zoom teaching/ interaction, no personal email from form tutor or class teacher etc.

Pretty crap really.

Ds is Y11, all we have had is a couple of phone calls, no bridging work to get him ready for A levels. Luckily he is a member of the Green party & is on the local transport committee, he has been working with their campaign to get the local Supertram routes extended & all the local branch railway stations open, the routes he has suggested have been taken up as their transport manifesto for the next council elections. That has kept his mind active, it is as though school have dumped them all & not knowing if school will be open for them in September aren't bothered.