This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is anxiety.

It’s normal to feel worried at times, we all experience anxiety and of course children will too. But sometimes worries can get quite big and heavy, and so it’s good to have ways to manage them.

Within school, we encourage children to talk about their worries and to share how they are feeling as sometimes it’s enough just to offload and be listened to. Here are some other useful tools you could use at home if your children are feeling worried:

Breathing techniques for children

Doodle your worries away

Rainbow worries

What are your worries and how can you cope