Wellbeing
This page gives links to useful resources to support the wellbeing of children and families.
Coronavirus resources
Preparing children for return to school in bubbles.
Coming back to school in a bubble
This is a book suitable for children and explains what school will be like.
Top tips for preparing your child for returning to school
Coronavirus – A Book For Children
Sleep
Yoga for sleep – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI9upn4t9n8
Meditation – www.headspace.com
Calm breathing – www.headspace.com and www.calm.com (Their apps and YouTube accounts have many calm breathing exercises and meditations to follow. Calm also has a range of sleep stories to listen to help calm and soothe.)
Mindfulness for kids: Cosmic Kids Zen Den
8 Tips for better sleep for children
Wellbeing
Useful contact numbers
What to do if you need urgent mental health help:
Bereavement
Websites for Children and Young People
- Childline: ‘Calm zone’ with activities and online games.
- Kooth: Online Counselling platform for children and young people
- Hope Again: The youth website of Cruse Bereavement Care.
Books and Workbooks for Children
- Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine: Your activity book to help when someone has died (EY)
- The Memory Tree (EY)
- Badgers Parting Gifts (EY)
- Always and Forever (EY)
- Grandad’s Island (EY)
- When Dinosaurs Die: A guide to Understanding Death (KS1)
- Luna’s Red Hat: A Storybook to Help Children Cope with Loss and Suicide (KS1)
- The Invisible String (KS1)
- The Invisible String Workbook (KS1)
- Michael Rosen’s Sad Book (KS1)
- The Dragonfly Story (KS1)
- Vicky Angel (KS2)
- Bridge to Terabithia (KS2)
- When Someone Has a Very Serious Illness (KS2)
- When Someone Very Special Dies (KS2)
- The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back (EY-KS2)
- The Huge Bag of Worries (EY -KS2)
