As part of The Education Alliance (TEAL), we are extremely fortunate to benefit from the TEAL Be Well programme. This programme provides emotional and wellbeing support for students, parents/carers and staff in addition to what schools are normally able to offer.

The TEAL Be Well Programme is a unique resource commissioned by The Education Alliance to increase mental health provision for children, staff and parents/carers across the schools in our Trust, including The Snaith School.

The Be Well Programme consists of two elements:

• Hull and East Yorkshire (HEY) Mind – The Whole School Approach for all children, parents/carers and staff Heymind.org.uk
• SMASH – (Social Mediation and Self Help)

Hull and East Yorkshire (HEY) Mind – Whole School Approach

Sally Mulligan from HEY Mind is based in The Snaith School for two days per week (Wednesday and Thursday).

Our school community is supported through a range of activities, including:

• High quality training and support
• A commitment to ensuring we have trained Youth Mental Health First Aiders within our school.
• Access to a listening service for students, parents/carers and staff as a drop-in service, in person or virtually
• An age appropriate workshop for all students (see below)
• A range of workshops for parents (see below)
• Access to a high-quality training programme for young people who wish to become Wellbeing Ambassadors
• Intensive student support through the ‘Big Umbrella’ programme

Parents/carers are able to seek support from Mind directly by either speaking to Sally during parents’ evenings or contacting her directly on SMulligan@heymind.org.uk. She can provide a listening ear or signposting service depending on individual need.

During the academic year 2023-24, over 800 pupils were supported through the activities offered by Mind. This has increased significantly with all students in Year 6 to Year 11 being offered access to an age appropriate workshop:

Year 6 – Transition and self-care- Delivered as part of our transition days How to cope with change – primary to secondary school video link

Year 7 – Ways to wellbeing

Year 8 – How to cope with change

Year 9 – Self-esteem and confidence

Year 10 – Resilience and adult life

Year 11- Managing exam stress

Social Mediation and Self-Help (SMASH)

The SMASH programme supports young people that have emotional and mental health difficulties and is an evidence-based intervention that offers 1:1 support, therapeutic group work and family outreach. Last academic year, 36 students benefited from SMASH support by either attending group intervention (KS3) or individual sessions (usually KS4). At The Snaith School we are supported by two SMASH practitioners who, between them, provide cover for 4 days a week.

Core areas of the SMASH programme are:

• Self Esteem
• Empathy
• Relationships
• Sense of belonging
• Trust
• Responsibility
• Choices
• Risk and Safety

Academic Year 24/25 Parent Workshop dates: All workshops will take place online, if you would like to attend please email: office@thesnaithschool.org.uk