{"id":274,"date":"2023-05-15T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:56:19","slug":"mental-health-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/2023\/05\/15\/mental-health-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-279 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/Mental-Health-Awareness-Week-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/Mental-Health-Awareness-Week-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/Mental-Health-Awareness-Week.png 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #339966\">This<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #339966\"> week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is <em>anxiety<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s 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\u2019s good to have ways to manage them.<\/p>\n<p>Within school, we encourage children to talk about their worries and to share how they are feeling as sometimes it&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/Breathing-techniques-for-children.pdf\">Breathing techniques for children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/Doodle-your-worries-away.pdf\">Doodle your worries away<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/Rainbow-worries.pdf\">Rainbow worries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/05\/What-are-your-worries-and-how-can-you-cope.pdf\">What are your worries and how can you cope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is anxiety. It\u2019s 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\u2019s good to have ways to manage them. Within school, we encourage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/pupil-wellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}