Last Thursday, we handed out yellow stickers in registration to all our school community to wear to raise awareness for young peoples mental health as part of Young Minds #HelloYellow intiative. In addition, we held activities over lunchtime to promote good mental health and wellbeing. I was out on the tennis courts running the Cornhole Challenge- this very popular activity returned for 2024 and was very well supported by our students who were keen to win points for their Houses. After some excellent efforts and after totting up the totals the scores for this activity are:

4th Place FOLEY
3rd Place BALLARD
2nd Place MORGAN
and 1st place......ELGAR!

Mrs Davis ran daffodil bulb planting and a community art project in the wellbeing garden encouraging staff and students to take a break from the pace of everyday life and take a moment in nature to be still and tap into creative skills. This intiaitve was so well received that she opened up the activity for a further lunchtime by popular demand. We look forward to seeing the yellow dafodills bloom in the Spring as a further reminder about mental health.

Vanessa, our Chaplain ran a #Helloyellow photo booth in the Chapel as well as a number of games that gave students the opportunity to reflect on their own mental health and wellbeing and things that are important to them and up in the Library, Ms Chapman promoted a whole host of mental health and well being literature. Students were encouraged to learn more about these texts whilst also enjoying a freshly decorated yellow cake!

Thank you to everyone who took part.