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Newsletter – Summer 1 2025

Mental Health Awareness Week – 12-18 May 2025

The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week was COMMUNITY.

In a whole school assembly, we looked at the meaning of the word ‘community’ and talked about all the different communities we belong to. Thinking about how the five steps to well being (keeping active, taking notice, giving, keeping learning and connecting) link to the idea of community, we also reflected on how being a member of a community can promote positive wellbeing and keep us mentally healthy; we considered what it would be like if communities did not exist as well as how we could contribute to communities in different ways to enhance the wellbeing of everyone.

Needless to say, our children contributed some excellent and thought-provoking ideas.

Transition at BPSP

As the second half of the Summer Term approaches in any school, we are mindful of all the change that is coming your child’s way. Some children will just breeze through this, barely noticing a thing, whereas, for others, it will be an anxious time. Here at BPSP, we endeavour to support all our children as much as possible through these changes. As always, we will have our Transfer Day where children will spend a day with their new classes and new teachers. As in previous years, we will share your child’s new class with them the afternoon before along with pictures of their new teacher and other teachers in the year group. On Transfer Day itself, teachers will give each child the opportunity to share information about themselves which may affect their transition to a new class: for example, one year, a child mentioned that they loved hats and so their teacher specifically chose to wear a hat in September when they went out to meet the class; another time, a child mentioned that they preferred sitting near the door and this was taken into consideration when the seating plan was done for September.

In addition, for those children transferring from Year Six, secondary school staff will be visiting the school. There are also some new documents on the school website for both parents and children to access under the label transition from Year 6 to Secondary.

Wellbeing On The Website

Mentioning the website, please be aware of the WELLBEING section under both PARENTS and CHILDREN where there are lots of useful articles, links and videos that may be of some support should you need it. For example, there is the happiness calendar for June where there are lots of suggestions for wellbeing activities which can be done in order or at random.

And finally ….

As you may now be aware, at Baden-Powell, we always dedicate the first hour back after any holiday to wellbeing so that the children can settle back into their classes before starting the new half term: both staff and pupils find this really beneficial. We will continue to think about the Zones of Regulation – another way in which we empower our children to think about their own mental health and wellbeing.

Have a lovely and restful half term – fingers crossed, we get some sun!

Heidi Inns

Senior Mental Health Lead