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Free Teacher Resources

These free resources for teachers will help you to understand how best to begin your journey into improved pupil mental health and wellbeing.

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Including our hugely popular Children's Mental Health Week bundle, these top free resources will help you to lay the foundations for a whole-school approach that supports pupils in their emotional and behavioural learning.

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More Teacher Resources

These extra free resources, including quick reads, lesson plans, assemblies and more, will help you to explore the Circles for Learning programme and the profound effect it can have on children's and young people's mental health and wellbeing, resilience, empathy and self-regulation.

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Quick Reads
Lessons
Other

Emotional Literacy

Let's talk about emotions and the impact they have on learning
Developing emotional literacy through stories

Relationships

How weaving social and emotional skills into classroom practice supports well-being
Practical ways to build mattering into the classroom

Self-awareness

Learning on empty
Self-esteem and its impact on children's learning and well-being

The Brain, Learning & Behaviour

Understanding childhood trauma
Positive childhood experiences
Supporting children return to school after the summer break

Staff Well-being

Top tips for staff well-being
Nurturing your mental health during winter
Why your nervous system matters too

Other

Top tips to creating a mental health friendly classroom
Is it time to put well-being on the curriculum?
Transitions and why they can be difficult

Emotional Literacy

KS1: Helping Hands
KS1/KS2: Emotions, Emotions
KS1/KS2: A Problem to Solve
KS1/KS2: What is Resilience?

Relationships

KS1/KS2: Asking for & Accepting Help
KS1/KS2: Kindess Architects
KS1/KS2/KS3: Being Kind & Thoughtful
KS1/KS2/KS3: Supporting Others
KS2/KS3: Friendships That Last & Grow
KS2/KS3: Creating a Sense of Belonging
KS2/KS3: Belonging: The Science Behind it
KS2/KS3: Different Points of View

Self-awareness

KS1: Only One of You
KS1/KS2: Looking After Me
KS1/KS2/KS3: Let's Celebrate Who we Are
KS1/KS2/KS3: Thoughts Are Not Facts
KS1/KS2: Growing my Self-esteem Garden
KS2/KS3: Getting to Know Your Best Friend
KS2/KS3: Be Your Own Life Coach
KS2/KS3: I am Important, I am Valued
KS2/KS3: How Emotions Affect How we Learn
KS2/KS3: Developing Positive Self-talk

The Brain, Learning & Behaviour

KS1/KS2/KS3: My Comfort Zone
KS2/KS3: Developing Positive Self-talk
KS2/KS3: Equality Versus Equity
KS2/KS3: Persistence & Resilience
KS2/KS3: What Happens in the Brain When we Feel Stressed?
KS2/KS3: Self-limiting Belief
KS2/KS3: Resilience: Beating the Challenge

Staff Wellbeing

Self-audit
Personal well-being action plan
Gratitude cards for staff meetings
5 Ways to Support Staff Wellbeing Poster

Other

Mental Health & Well-being Audit
Ways to Create a Mental Health Friendly Classroom Poster
KS1/KS2: This is my Place Assembly with Notes
KS3: Action for Mental Health Assembly with Notes
Moving Up Lesson Plan
Adapting to Change Lesson Plan

Published Books

Founder of Circles for Learning, Alison Waterhouse is a published author of books that explore the emotional development of children and young people within the school environment. Her 'Mental Health & Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit' series provides an invaluable set of resources for schools looking to form a pro-active approach to the mental health and wellbeing of their pupils.

Wellbeing Champions by Alison Waterhouse book cover

Wellbeing Champions: A Complete Toolkit for Schools

This book shows how to create a mentally healthy school by empowering young people to champion emotional wellbeing and positive mental health.
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Emotional Literacy book cover by Alison Waterhouse

Emotional Literacy: Supporting Emotional Health & Wellbeing in School

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this resource focuses on how to support children on a journey of self-discovery where they learn to recognise, understand, share and manage emotions.
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The Brain and Learning by Alison Waterhouse book cover

The Brain and Learning: Supporting Emotional Health & Wellbeing in School

One of five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource is designed to help young children understand how the brain affects ways we see and interpret the world.
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Skills for Effective Learning in School by Alison Waterhouse book cover

Skills for Effective Learning in School: Supporting Emotional Health and Wellbeing

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this book shows how to create a mentally healthy school by empowering young people to champion emotional wellbeing and positive mental health.
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Positive Relationships in School by Alison Waterhouse book cover

Positive Relationships in School: Supporting Emotional Health and Wellbeing

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource focuses on developing the skills necessary to build and maintain successful relationships. The book offers research-driven, practical strategies, resources and lesson plans.
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Self-discovery by Alison Waterhouse book cover

Positive Relationships in School: Supporting Emotional Health & Wellbeing in School

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource focuses on how to support children and young people on a voyage of self-discovery, as they learn to be their own best friend.
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Learning Mentor Toolkit by Alison Waterhouse book cover

The Learning Mentor Toolkit: A Complete Recruitment and Training Resource for Schools

The Learning Mentor Toolkit provides all of the resources necessary to recruit, train and supervise adult learning mentors looking to support children and young people within the school environment.
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Weaving Wellbeing into the Literacy Curriculum by Alison Waterhouse

Weaving Wellbeing into the Literacy Curriculum for Ages 5-7: A Practical Resource for Busy Teachers

Combining literacy lessons with wellbeing, this accessible guide, full of practical lesson plans and photocopiable activities is the ideal resource for the busy primary school teacher.
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Weaving Wellbeing into the Literacy Curriculum 8-11 by Alison Waterhouse book cover

Weaving Wellbeing into the Literacy Curriculum for Ages 8-11: A Practical Resource for Busy Teachers

Combining literacy lessons with wellbeing, this accessible guide, full of practical lesson plans and photocopiable activities is the ideal resource for the busy primary school teacher.
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Podcasts

Listen to podcasts exploring how Circles for Learning helps children and young people grow in resilience and creates the conditions for meaningful, lasting change.
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Become a Licensed Practitioner

Those who train as Circles for Learning Licensed Practitioners are looking for new and exciting ways to develop children and young people who have better emotional literacy.
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Case Studies

Hear from teachers at schools that have taken part in the Circles for Learning programme and learn the real classroom impact of this unique approach to emotional wellbeing and resilience.
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