January 2017 School Application Form /
Contact: Chimeme Egbutah, Public Health Strategist: /
Tel: 0208 359 6145
Barnet’sTHRIVE Mental Health and Resilience in Schools (MHARS) Programmeaims to:
- Improve the emotional resilience of pupils in Barnet and schools’ understanding of the risk and protective factors involved in mental health
- Promote positive mental health in schools
- Prevent the development of mental illness in school pupils
- Demonstrate and further develop the links between positive mental health and achievement
“Good schools already do many things that promote resilience without necessarily being aware of the underpinning theory and research.Understanding more fully why those things are so important, how they inter-relate and why they make a difference will ensure that they become part of the consistent policy and practice of the school rather than being dependent on a few individuals.” Young Minds
The purpose of the THRIVE MHARS project is to:- Support up to 6schools to collaboratively develop, pilot and evaluate the framework and activities to support pupils’ mental health and resilience through:
- Mapping what they currently have in place in relation to the framework
- Establishing a baseline of the emotional wellbeing of pupils
- Identifying (at least) one element of their work to develop
- Choosing and implementing a project or specific activity/ies
- Developing work, measuring its impact and sharing practice
Schools will need to: / Schools involved in the project will:
- Identify a leader in the school to work on the project
- Be able to attend one collaborative meeting every half term
- Work with the QI project lead to:
- map their current provision
- identify measures for pupils’ emotional wellbeing
- regularly measure pupils’ emotional wellbeingat key times in school life e.g. transition
- record their data and share with the QI network
- Develop at least one element of their work within the framework through identified activity or a project
- Share good practice and agree for any findings to be published and shared (within Barnet and nationally, as appropriate)
- Be interested in this work!
- Be able to prioritise their involvement
- Have long term commitment to developing this work (over 2 years)
- Have an ability to change
- Be open and willing to share – both successes and challenges
- Be reflective of their own practice
- Engage fully in the process
We are looking for a range of schools / PRUs, at different stages of their work in this area.
Applying to be a THRIVE Mental Health and Resilience in School quality improvement pilot school
THRIVE Mental Health and Resilience in Barnet Schools (MHARS) Quality Improvement Project
Application form
Please complete all sections – brief but thoughtful answers are encouraged, bullet points fine!! Please consider the proposed mental health and resilience in schools (THRIVE MHARS) framework and reflect this in your answers
Once complete please email to: If the head does not send the form please ensure that she / he is copied in to the email.
The closing date is 28th February 2017
School name:
Lead member of staff for project in school:
Lead member of staff’s role/job title:
Why should your school be involved in the THRIVE pilot project?
What difference do you want to make?(Please be as specific as possible)
What would you like to develop to support mental health and resilience? What actions will you take as part of this project?(Please note these are not fixed, they may develop and change as the project goes on.)
What challenges might there be for your school in taking part?
How will you structure the work? Please consider:
- Leadership in the school
- How this work fits with your school improvement plan
- How this will complement and develop your existing work (including, but not exclusively, your work with CAMHS)
- What administrative support you can offer(eg booking rooms, communicating with the network, collating evaluations)
Two members of the THRIVE MHARS steering group will visit the school to talk to the head and lead teacher as part of the application process. Please give three possible days and times when this meeting could take place.
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