The Our Time Primary PSHE teacher guide is designed to support teachers in delivering the topics of mental health and mental illness as part of a Covid-19 recovery curriculum. What makes this programme unique is its specific focus on children who have a parent with a mental illness.
As well as supporting students’ overall health and well-being, this programme is also designed to support the development of the following skills:
- Literacy
- Written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Making connections between different subjects in the curriculum
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Developing empathy for others
- Increasing self-esteem and confidence
- Listening skills
There are four sessions in this programme, each lasting approximately 45-60 minutes, with the flexibility to shorten or extend the sessions to fit within your timetable. These can ideally be delivered once a week, across a half term. Sessions are designed to be engaging, interactive and practical.
This programme can contribute to your school’s overall health and well-being priorities and targets. It has been designed with current government social distancing guidelines in mind (as of September 2020). This is of course dependent on the size of your class and the space you are working in. In order to support your delivery of this, the accompanying resource pack has been designed so that sessions can be delivered in any space and is not reliant on the use of an interactive whiteboard.
