All Schools

Mental Health Opportunities from MYA RAISE

As a member of the Liverpool CAMHS Partnership, Merseyside Youth Association’s RAISE Team designs and delivers an ongoing programme of funded training opportunities.

Underpinned by therapeutic models, this is designed to educate and empower the workforce as we strive to improve the knowledge and understanding of mental health among children and young people.

Many of these training opportunities are bite-size, up to one hour long, and are delivered personally online by a mental health professional. Programmes cover a range of important subjects to develop staff knowledge and skills, while programmes for children and young people support resilience-building, empowering them to offer peer-to-peer mental health support.

The overall aim of these opportunities is to support schools in embedding a Whole-School Approach to children’s and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

See the RAISE Team’s full training programme here.

LLP subscriptions

Thank you to all the schools who have completed this attached form   If you have not done so, please could you do it now so that we can plan our programmes moving forward.  It really is only a 2 minute job.

Secondary Schools

WSA Network

Our next WSA Secondary Network takes place on Wednesday 26th June (15:30-17:00). Please ask your Mental Health Lead/s to book on here:

https://www.liverpoollearningpartnership.com/event/wsa-secondary-network-meeting-2/

Link Worker Offer September 2024

Alder Hey have send the following summary of their Link Worker offer. From September this is what will be available:

  • Clinical Consultations – As link workers, we can offer you a space for clinical consultation, please complete our form and your Link Worker will be in touch to arrange a convenient time and date.
  • Attending Educational Mental Health Termly Meetings (EMHT’s) and discussing Whole School Approach (WSA) – Alongside our WSA Partners and collective we will attend EMHT Meetings to meet with you and those who are supporting your school. Further information below.
  • Link Worker Meetings – These meetings can be held throughout the year to help us to think about themes in school and specific bespoke needs, during these we can consider how best to support the needs of the children, young people and families within your school.
  • In addition to this, if your school have engaged in the ROAR – Staff Well-Being Training, as Link Workers, we can offer you supervision of supervision in adherence of this model.
  • Critical incident support as part of the Education Mental Health Team offer
  • The Group work offer is currently being reviewed in conjunction with the new Wave 11 MHST pilot & existing YPAS Wellbeing Clinic. We are working behind the scenes to see how we can best work together to support schools as part of our Education Mental Health Team offer. We will clarify this further at the beginning of September.

Primary Schools

Year 6 Transition Livestream Sessions

The joining links for our Year 6 Transition Livestreams are as follows:

Tuesday 25th June (10:00-11:00):

https://streamyard.com/watch/vX3MSXnEWtT2

Thursday 27th June (13:30-14:30):

https://streamyard.com/watch/cA7hsTWB4aff

Summer school referrals

Attached to the briefing is the Transition summer school referral form 2024 for primary schools to use to send to secondary colleagues running summer schools for year 6 pupils moving to year 7, and a list of the secondary transition summer school contacts 2024. Please complete these forms by 28th June.

Year 6 Forest School Transition Sessions- Sefton Park Palm House

Sefton Park Palm House has an opportunity for Year 6 pupils transitioning to secondary school to attend a series of forest school sessions with a parent/carer. The sessions will run from 10am – 12pm every Wednesday morning from 24th July – 28th August. There are ten free spaces, thanks to funding from People on the Lane, and at the time of writing eight are still available.

Jamie Paterson, a Forest School Leader in training, will be delivering 6 forest school sessions. He is currently undergoing final assessment as a Forest School trainer with Grow Wellbeing.  The activities will be educational, creative, connection focused and centred around nature and wellbeing. Jamie will also have the support of our Head of External Relations and Community Manager who will be present to help Jamie navigate the sessions on behalf of the Palm House. Drawing upon relevant teaching and guiding experience present within their roles at the Palm House.The activity will build key confidence and interpersonal skills in their summer holiday between primary and secondary school. There will also be associated benefits for the adults attending with their children.

Please share this information with parents/carers that you think would be interested and find this useful. Anyone interested should email Kate Martinez at the Palm House: Kate.Martinez@palmhouse.org.uk

BBC 500 Words Competition

BBC’s 500 Words encourages children of all abilities to dive deep into their imagination and write the story they would love to read in 500 words or less, without having to worry about spelling, grammar or punctuation.

There are two age categories :  5-7 year olds and  8-11 year olds. The competition opens on Tuesday 24 September, until 9pm Friday 8 November 2024 with the winners being revealed on World Book Day in March 2025. Stories need to be submitted during this time but can be written beforehand. It’s a great activity for the end of Summer term or as a challenge over the Summer holidays!

Writing a 500 Words story is a brilliant activity that can celebrate a love of stories and writing across your school. 83% of teachers, who submitted entries in 2023, said their students were more engaged with literacy and writing as a result in taking part.

The top 50 finalists will be invited to a star-studded final in February at a spectacular location. Gold, silver and bronze awards will be given out in each category. Winners will receive a bundle of books and their story illustrated – with gold winners also receiving 500 books for their school.

As an incentive for all children to take part, each story (apart from the top 50) will be entered into a random draw – one child and parent will be invited to the final, receive a bundle of books and 500 books for their school.

500 Words is a competition for children of all abilities and backgrounds. We also offer £50 book tokens to schools with 50 percent of children on free school meals and three £10 book tokens donated by National Book Tokens.  All schools need to do is submit stories and we will do the rest

Job opportunities

We’re pleased to be announcing two exciting vacancies that we’re currently recruiting for.

Firstly, for a data lead/information analyst to work with the Education Mental Health Teams: https://www.liverpoolcamhs.com/working-with-children/vacancy-emht-data-lead-information-analyst/

And then a joint post with School Improvement Liverpool for a bid writer to work across both organisations: https://www.schoolimprovementliverpool.co.uk/Bid-Writer-939