Coinciding with Children’s Mental Health Week, on Monday 3rd February 9 of our 11 Mental Health Ambassadors (MHAs) attended a celebration event at Exmouth Community College, organised in association with the Heads Up charity. The event was attended by several Exmouth primary schools and provided an opportunity for all the school MHA pupils to meet and mix.
The MHAs were tasked with making a presentation about their role in their own schools. Our Withycombe Raleigh Ambassadors delivered an amazing presentation on what they would like to do in our school to help support children's mental health.
The Ambassadors then had the opportunity to try out a range of wellbeing activities. They made sensory bottles, worry dolls, 'all about me' collages, 'my happy space' artwork, played feelings charades and slam dunk. This was a fantastic event and we thank Mrs L Jones and Mrs White for taking the children along, ECC for hosting, and organisers the Heads Up charity for inviting us. We now hope to be able to bring some of these ideas back to Withycombe Raleigh!