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The Teen Tips 'Wellbeing Hub' is an interactive online portal, designed to help you understand and meet students' social and emotional needs, offering a proactive approach to young people’s mental health and wellbeing by providing expert-led resources and practical support.

Teen tips is currently supporting  170,000 students in more than 300+ schools across six countries.

With more than 2,000 resources available on the platform, including webinars, podcasts, videos, Q&As the wealth of expert-led resources ensure that parents, carers and staff are equipped with the skills, knowledge and confidence to positively impact the children and young people within their school communities.

The Decider Skills use Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to teach children, young people and adults the skills to recognise their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours, enabling them to monitor and manage their own emotions and mental health.

Manuals, handbooks, posters, workshops, training videos, apps, downloadable resources, including Good2Go for primary schools, offer a whole systems approach to proactive mental health in educational settings. The strength and value in having a whole school language for children to articulate their feelings has been invaluable at ECJS. It is used across the school in managing situations as they arise.

Elizabeth College is delighted to be part of the UK National Mindfulness in Schools Project. With two fully qualified mindfulness teachers, Elizabeth College has added ‘cognitive mindfulness skills’ to the PSHE programme for all our Year 7 students.

The Mindfulness in Schools Project is designed to help young people to manage difficulties and flourish. Mindfulness helps train your attention to be more aware of what is actually happening, rather than worrying about what has happened or might happen. Mindfulness teaching is designed to empower students to bring greater curiosity to whatever it is we experience. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founding father of secular mindfulness, described this skill as ‘being alive and knowing it’.

If we can support our students to recognise worry, manage those difficulties, and develop a more mindful awareness, we can help them to appreciate what is going well so they can really thrive. Mindfulness can help you to develop a greater awareness of relationships and how to manage them, and a richer understanding of things like self-esteem and optimism. It can also help us to understand and direct our attention with greater awareness and skill, improving concentration and the ability to plan.

Girls on Board is an approach which helps girls, their parents and their teachers to understand the complexities and dynamics of girl friendships. The language, methods and ideas empower girls to solve their own friendship problems and recognises that they are usually the only ones who can.

The Girls on Board programme is a pro-active approach, which delivers sessions that bring girls together to explore key principles around friendship dynamics and challenges. It helps girls, their parents and teachers to understand the dynamics of girl friendships and it uses language, methods and ideas which enable girls to understand and address friendship issues.

Through dedicated sessions, girls work together to explore group dynamics, different personality types and behaviours and how to manage parent reactions. Girls on Board enables girls to resolve issues more effectively and aims to minimise the impact of conflict when it does arise, by encouraging open, honest and effective communication.

Over 300 schools have adopted this award-winning approach and are now supporting thousands of girls in their friendships.

Girls on Board Parent Booklet

At Elizabeth College we believe ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Inspired by the Heroic Imagination in each of us, HIP designs innovative strategies by combining psychological research, intervention education and social activism to create everyday heroes equipped to solve local and global problems.

The Rights Respecting School Award is an initiative run by UNICEF UK, which encourages schools to place the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of its ethos and curriculum. A Rights Respecting School not only teaches about children's rights, it also models rights and respect in all its relationships, whether between children or between children and adults.

In practice this means that the children at ECJS, and the wider school community, all know about and understand the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and can describe how it impacts on their lives and on the lives of children everywhere.

The ECJS School Council has been instrumental in leading the Junior School’s Rights Respecting Journey. The council members and staff meet regularly to collaborate on how best to support and embed the rights-respecting ethos within ECJS.

The Wellbeing Hub is a dedicated space in the facilities at Perrot Court. Situated just of the library and opposite the Sixth Form Centre it is a place for students and staff to explore, learn and interact with all sorts of useful resources and materials around health and wellbeing. There is a dedicated room for reflection and meditation as well as soft seating spaces where students can spend quiet time away from the busy, buzz of everyday school life.

For further information on how to access the services available to students, including access to specific services including coping with exams visit the Wellbeing online noticeboard via the QR code.