Our primary school mental health and wellbeing programmes are specifically for key stage 2, ages 7 to 11, designed to develop a better understanding of emotional vocabulary and how to process our feelings, as well as support year 6 students in their journey into year 7 and the changes that come alongside this.
Our programmes are ultimately designed to support the mental health and wellbeing needs of children as they move through Primary School. The focus of these programmes is emotional intelligence, and how this is what makes us who we are, defined by the ability to identify our emotions and understand what they mean, how they affect us, and even how we can regulate and express our emotions enough in a healthy and safe way.
Emotional Intelligence Programme - Years 4 to 5
Enabling pupils to build resilience and engage them in their own development of confidence, self-esteem and belief in their abilities.
Transition Programme - Year 6 to 7
Building Strength and Resilience in students for transitioning to Secondary School or from Primary School.
Founded in 2014 by Mental Health Nurse Sue Altass and Social Worker Hannah Cheshire. Inspire Ignite was set up with the aim of making a real difference in mental health by working with young people to encourage personal development, confidence, and self-esteem.
Our primary school mental health programmes are developed to be accessible, inclusive, and easy to use, above all else. We have developed easy to use and adapt resources catering to any sized school, making the delivery of these programmes limitless for your organisation.
We provide you with dedicated training for up to 12 members of staff to be able to deliver the course in house and as many times as needed, focusing on not just the programme materials, but how it affects the rest of the school and your pupils' lives following on from the sessions too.
This can be done however is most convenient for your school, and will ensure you have absolutely everything you need to deliver the programmes successfully, all the while providing you with access to our support and advice whenever you need it along the way.
The primary school mental health programmes are carried out across 8 sessions spanning 60 minutes each that can be structured into your regular schedule with ease, enabling you to get the very best the programme has to offer without the need to disrupt the flow of your children’s everyday learning.
This pair of friendly, specially commissioned characters have been designed to help our younger students on their self-esteem journey. They make regular appearances in the books and audio CDs and are also available as soft toy learning tools from our online shop. They can make a very tactile and positive contribution to our younger learners’ development.
Positive Parrot
The happy smile on the face of our super friendly Positive Parrot character, puts a bright smile on life, teaching our little learners the value of positivity.
Negative Newt
Poor old Negative Newt always sees his glass as half empty, which for a newt out of water is a pretty worrying situation!
Our Positive Parrot and Negative Newt Characters have been adapted into a series of books that are used as an integral part of our Primary School programmes.
