Student Wellbeing
Student Wellbeing Support at Alcester Academy
At Alcester Academy, the LSU serves as the hub for student wellbeing support. Our LSU staff are specially trained in mental health first aid, and we encourage any student who may be struggling to reach out—there is always someone available to listen and offer support.
Our aim is to help support students through the difficult times and if we can’t help, we will find someone who can. We work with many organisations and we offer bespoke counselling and mentoring to students if they need it.
We have a school counsellor, Claire Gibb, who offers Cognitive Behaviour Sessions (CBT) with her therapy dog Albi. They are based in LSU. We also have Rob Townsend from Lifespace, who offers mentoring to our boys, as well as our brilliant Warwickshire Young Minds Matter mentors who work with many of our students.
Please find below the organisations that come in regularly to school to work with our students.
We also offer drops in around exam time and specific sessions to help with exam stress.
ADVICE & GUIDANCE - ANXIETY, COPING WITH STRESS
Mental health & wellbeing
- The Child Mind Institute: Amazing resource for helping children and teens with everything. Great for parents.
- The Frank Bruno Foundation: Aims to provide wellbeing programmes for adults and young people facing or recovering from mental ill heath. Tyson Fury is the charity’s ambassador. www.thefrankbrunofoundation.co.uk
- MIND: Resources for wellbeing. We're Mind, the mental health charity | Mind
ONLINE COUNSELLING AND ADVICE - ALL TOPICS
- Feagans Online Counselling for Teenagers (Year 7 upwards): www.fegans.org.uk/online_counselling_teenagers/
- ThinkNinja: A great website full of advice and guidance on all topics including exam stress for young people and they have a great app you can download too. See @THINKNINJA.
- Shout: Anxious? Worried? Stressed? Get 24/7 support. Text SHOUT to 8528. www.giveusashout.org
- Kooth: Free confidential support for young people. www.kooth.com
USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
- Young Carers: 02476 217740
- Samaritans Helpline: 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org
- Childline: 0800 1111
RELAXATION
Why not try something different that you’ve never done before?
This website offer audio relaxation:
- Headspace: This is really a great recommended resource that we have used with lots of young people at the Academy, you can download the App or go on the website. www.headspace.com.
