Welcome to the Whole School Approach to Emotional and Mental Wellbeing!

Our programme is designed for those responsible for leading Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools in Wales and is facilitated by Sally Evans, an organisational psychologist with extensive experience of operationalising strategy and of wellbeing and socio/psychological interventions.

The programme aims to provide you with the skills, tools and confidence to create a ‘whole school plan’ for Emotional and Mental Wellbeing for your school. We will do this by:

Partnering with you - we are experts in the organisational development and wellbeing field
Providing guided professional learning in wellbeing interventions
Growing your knowledge, skills and confidence in the wellbeing and organisational development field
Enabling your School capacity in Project Plan development and expertise in wellbeing interventions
Improving strategic thinking capability
Accelerating your Implementation Plan development
Providing a supported, structured approach with inbuilt accountability for action
Creating a collaborative and shared endeavour across your Cluster

Our Programme Approach

The programme is designed to lead to a better understanding of the ‘Framework on embedding a whole school approach to emotional and mental wellbeing’ (guidance document 2694/2021) as it applies to your School and Community context and to enable effective strategic capability in responding to the framework.

We will come together for four days of supported learning and action:

- Scoping - September 20th:

Module 1: This module builds the skills to be able to undertake a stakeholder analysis and to assess the level of complexity around a whole school approach. You will determine the scale and scope of the plan that you wish to implement and examine the risks associated with implementing short- or longer-term interventions and initiatives.

- Data and Insights - October 25th:

Module 2: This module enables an understanding of how data can provide the necessary insights to establish root cause and thereby identify the right solutions for issues and how data can direct evidence-based decision-making. You will be guided in data collection and are encouraged between sessions to build your data sources. An understanding of the theory of change (COM-B) underpins this module and will enable sustainably improved wellbeing outcomes.

- Options Analysis - December 6th:

Module 3: This module enables an increased understanding of the various interventions that can support improved psychological health across organisations at every level, developing the whole school plan using a sample template, creating an effective communications plan and identifying good and useful practise from across the system in Wales and beyond.

- Measuring Success- January 12th:

Module 4: This module illustrates how to ensure that your approach and plan is set up for success, how to measure and evaluate return on investment and impact and how to create sustainable momentum and embed change for the long term.

By the end of this programme, you will have undertaken a stakeholder analysis, drafted a Whole School Plan and have a Communication and Engagement Plan ready to go!

Come along and work with colleagues in your Cluster to share knowledge, practice and resources. We look forward to welcoming you!

Embedding a whole school approach to emotional and mental wellbeing: Cynffig Comprehensive