Talking Mental Health is an animation and accompanying teacher toolkit designed to help begin conversations about mental health in the classroom and beyond.
The Talking Mental Health animation aims to give children an understanding of:
- what mental health is and the difference between every day small feelings and a big feeling
- consistent and accessible language to talk about mental health
- an understanding of how to be a good listener.
This animation was developed in collaboration with children.
We have developed a Teacher Toolkit for school staff to use alongside the animation which includes: