Promoting emotional wellbeing in early years settings
In this lesson you will learn:
- About strategies to improve children’s emotional wellbeing
- About actions to support families with their emotional wellbeing
- How to develop an action plan to support the emotional wellbeing of early years practitioners
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Find and read your setting’s wellbeing policy
- ‘Attachment: Supporting Young Children’s Emotional Wellbeing’ from the Teaching Expertise website
- ‘Happy children — taking care of young people's wellbeing’ from the Early Years Alliance
- ‘Early Years toolkit - Promoting wellbeing’ from Oxfordshire County Council
- ‘Observing and evaluating children’s well-being’ by FSF Rebecca and Jane Evans on the Foundation Stage Forum.
- ‘What is the Leuven scale and how to use it’ on the Learning Journals website
- ‘Working with families facing challenges’ from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
- ‘Early years staff wellbeing: a resource for managers and teams’ from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
- ‘Continuing professional development’ from NCFE
- ‘Promoting children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing’ by Public Health England and the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition
- Reading Materials
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This section of the Wellfield Infant School’s website contains resources for ‘Supporting Children's and Families Emotional Wellbeing.
- This section of the Parenting Smart website contains ‘Practical tips to support children’s wellbeing and behaviour’.
- Read this example Mental health and wellbeing policy from Shapes Day Nursery. Is there anything in this policy that you feel could be added to your own setting’s policy?
- Click on this link to read the ‘Early Years Commission cross party manifesto’. How would the ideas contains in this document promote emotional wellbeing?
- Click on this link to the Royal Foundation’s Centre for Early Childhood to find out more on how early childhood wellbeing shapes adult lives.
- Click to launch Laser Learning’s presentation ‘How to develop children’s self-esteem’.
- Think And Challenge
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