At Oakwood Junior School, we are dedicated to supporting all our children and their families.  We believe in promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing to ensure that the school is a community where everyone feels able to thrive. Our school ethos and values underpin everything that we do.

This page will be used to supply information and resources as well as keep you up to date with what we have been doing at Oakwood to promote positive mental health and wellbeing.  

What's been happening at Oakwood?

Readathon October 2024

Reading for pleasure changes lives

Children and young people who read for pleasure are more likely to do well at school, have better jobs, be happy and lead fulfilled lives. All through the magic of a humble book or story!

This week, we have all taken part in Readathon 2024! This is a charity that promotes reading for pleasure to improve mental health and wellbeing and raises money to purchase books for children in hospital. Click the links below to find out what we have been doing!

Our Readathon started on the Monday 30^th September and ended on Sunday 6^th October.  Before this week, the Year 6s came together to discuss ideas and activities we could do in school to motivate people to read.  They came up with many possible activities, which we then put into a timetable for a week of fun for everyone to participate in. These activities included an author talk, drop everything and read sessions, treasure hunts, lunchtime book club, buddy reading, a reading river, a world record attempt and much more! All of this culminated on Friday with our bedtime story day, which greatly boosted reading for pleasure!

Mrs Stone set the school a target of 50,000 minutes to read in the Readathon week. Everyone was given their own username and password for the track my read app and pupils were encouraged to log all the minutes they read in school and at home.  Mrs Stone soon realized she had greatly underestimated our love of reading when, by day three, we had smashed the target with a total of 61,450 minutes read! So, the challenge was set – 100,000 minutes was the new target.  Was it possible? Could we motivate ourselves to read and track that many minutes? 

Of course we could! We ended up with a grand total of 130,905 minutes logged! What a tremendous achievement by everyone!

Mental Health Awareness Week 13th-19th May 2024

Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 will took place from 13 to 19 May, on the theme of “Movement: Moving more for our mental health”.

Movement is important for our mental health. But so many of us struggle to move enough. We know there are many different reasons for this, so this Mental Health Awareness Week we wanted to help Oakwood find moments for movement everyday! 

Click the link below for ideas to help keep yourselves moving at home too!

National Stress Awareness Month

April is recognised as National Stress Awareness Month to bring attention to the negative impact of stress. Managing stress is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle. 

Knowing how to manage stress can improve mental and physical well-being as well as minimise exacerbation of health-related issues.
 

Useful links to support mental health and wellbeing: