Children aged 10 to 12 have been provided with rucksacks to support their mental health in a new initiative.
Trinity School in Newbury is one of eight schools in Berkshire and Oxfordshire participating in the Resilience Rucksack project. The scheme, led by the University of Reading, was developed in collaboration with young people, teachers, parents, and mental health experts to create effective wellbeing products.
Approximately 1,200 pupils have received the rucksacks at fairs held in Reading, Wokingham, Abingdon, and Newbury. Each bag includes various wellbeing tools such as comic books, playing cards, and journals.
The project emphasizes four key themes: sleep, movement, self-compassion, and friendship. It targets students transitioning to secondary education, specifically those in years six and seven.
Lucy Moore, a teacher at Trinity Secondary School, expressed the significance of the initiative, saying, “Mental health and well-being have been impacted for young people by many different factors, and we just want to support them as best we can, now and in the future. The idea of this project is that they will get this physical rucksack with tools to support them lifelong.”
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