What support is there for you at school?
All students have access to:
- Regular mentor meetings with their form tutor, alongside daily check-ins
- CCC Wellbeing Newsletter posted below and on Teams
In addition, we have lots of extra internal and external support available to help students with their individual needs.
We have ‘specialised’ mentors ready to support you with your wellbeing/mental health. These mentors can help you with a very wide range of things, so do get in touch with us!
Please speak to your teachers, tutors and Heads of House so that we can support you.
Chesterton Wellbeing Mentors
Our team of mentors are able to help students with:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Stress management
- Grief
- Bereavement
- OCD
- Male mental health
- Workload
- Pressures from school
- Self-esteem
- Mindfulness
- And so much more!
How to get support
You can:
- Find any member of staff you feel comfortable with, before or after school, or at break and lunch – they’ll be really happy to help!
- Drop in to stress management sessions with Mrs Gibson (details advertised on daily notices and Teams)
- Send an email to Mrs Hawkins:
Your Head of House can organise referrals for:
- Chesterton Wellbeing Mentors
- Specialist NHS Wellbeing Practitioners
- In-house counselling programmes
Something isn't right?
If you don’t feel comfortable approaching a member of staff, don’t worry! Just click the button below to let us know you need some help and one of the team will be in touch with you to put some support in place.
Newsletter
You may have noticed that once a half term, we send out our well-being newsletter. This provides you with less formal signposts and advice for looking after your well-being to help prevent mental illnesses. These signposts can also support you if you are currently struggling with illnesses. As well as the newsletter, we advertise sign posts throughout the year on daily notices and our House board that appear in the House villages.
Online mental health & wellbeing support
- Kooth is a FREE online counselling service. If you want to access it during school time, please speak to your HOH.
- On My Mind is a service provided by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families and is full of top tips to look after your wellbeing.
- Young Minds provides advice and guidance but also provides a texting service.
- Stop. Breath. Think. is a charity offering online counselling sessions.
- Keep Your Head provides easy access to all the services currently available in Cambridgeshire. There is a range as everyone is different.
- Centre33 offers support to young people. You can talk to them about anything.
