Wellbeing

Help Seeking:

Many of our units are looking at the concept of seeking help during SEL sessions this term.

Learning activities in this topic area are designed to help students discuss the importance of seeking help and providing peer support when dealing with problems that are too big to solve alone. This helps to normalise and destigmatise help-seeking behaviour. Scenario-based activities help students identify situations in which help should be sought, identify trusted sources of help, and practice seeking help from peers and adults.

Some problems are too big to solve alone. It’s ok to ask for help. 

We explore different situations where we look at:

• when to seek help 
• who we can trust to ask for help.

We practise seeking help from peers and adults.

Each year the students reflect on who the people in their lives are that they are comfortable to go to if they need help. It is an important activity we undertake each year as these people often change as the children grow older. Having reflected on who they can turn to for help means that if the situation arises where they do need to seek help they know who they can turn to.