Student Support

We care about your well being, use the resources below to help you when you need some extra suppport.

There may be times when you urgently need to talk to someone in confidence, whilst we are always here for you there are a number of organisations you can contact in times of crisis.

 

 Call: 116 123      Website: https://www.samaritans.org

Call: 0800 1111     Website: https://www.childline.org.uk
Call: 0800 068 41 41    Website: Hopelineuk

Parents Helpline Call: 0808 802 55 44    Website: https://youngminds.org.uk/

Call: 0808 800 5000     Website: https://www.nspcc.org.uk

 

 

In order to support your wellbeing, we have put together some useful apps and websites for you 😊

Websites

https://www.kooth.com/ – This is a free online emotional well-being platform accessible through mobile, tablet and desktop

Apps

Think Ninja This is a great app to provide you with skills to help you build resilience and stay well.Think Ninja can help by:

1) Providing you with strategies for keeping calm when stress levels rise by accessing the Skill Zone for breathing and distraction exercises

2) Showing you how to address unhelpful thoughts in the CBT skills section and My Challenges section

3)  Boosting your mood with various PowerUps

4)  Connecting via text chat with a ‘live’ Healios mental health professional, if required, all within the app
Smiling Mind

 

 Bringing mindfulness and meditation into your life will help you:

  • Reduce worries, anxiety and distress
  • Enjoy more energy
  • Create a sense of calm
  • Learn how to relax and regulate emotions
  • Enhance awareness and creativity
  • Improve concentration and increase productivity
  • Develop a sense of empathy and connectedness
  • Enjoy better health and sleep
Headspace

 

 This app provides some great mindfulness exercises and guided meditations – it’s just like exercise but for the brain.  Through meditation, we can build up areas of our brain and rewire it to enhance positive traits such as focus and decision making and reduce the less positive ones like stress, fear and anxiety.