At The Willows, we care about helping every child feel happy, confident, and ready to learn. That’s why we use My Happy Mind – a special programme designed to support children's wellbeing and mental health that is based on scientific research.

What is My Happy Mind?
It’s a fun animated programme that helps children learn how to: 

• Build confidence and self-esteem
• Understand and manage their emotions
• Develop positive habits for a happy life

Children enjoy animated lessons that are exciting and easy to follow. Every child from Early Years to Year 6 takes part, with lessons suited to their age group.

What do children learn?
The programme is split into five modules, each teaching new skills and habits to help children build resilience, self-esteem and confidence.  We believe in teaching the science and embedding the habits around mental well-being. We give children the understanding and tools to cope when times get hard. The children learn how to look after their brain, they look at their own Character Strengths which helps them with their confidence and independence and they complete a module on goal-setting which increases their resilience.

Support for Families 

Parents can use the My Happy Mind Parent App so they can reinforce everything their children are learning at school while they’re at home.

Parent App

The Parent App will support you as a parent in understanding what your child is learning. It includes games and activities that you can do together to embed the learning that is taking place in school. There are mini-master classes on key issues like separation anxiety, neurodiversity and many others that you, as a parent, can access. There is also a Kids Zone with lots of activities too.

To access these materials, please either go to:  https://myhappymind.org/parent-resources  to create your free account. You will need to enter your name, email address and school authentication code (you can get this from the school office).

We really encourage you to make use of this FREE content so that you can support your child in getting the best out of the curriculum and enjoy learning together.

Parent App Video Link

https://myhappymind.lpages.co/myhappymind-parent-app-introduction/