Bounce Forward - Healthy Minds (curriculum of developmental learning for secondary students) - Stay Safe Partnership

Outcomes

Students have reported that Healthy Minds lessons help them to:

  • identify damaging unhelpful and negative thoughts
  • set rules in relationships and understand what’s not ok
  • stick up for themselves, take responsibility for their feelings and actions
  • recognise the signs and be able to support friends who are ‘going under’
  • have a set of techniques that help in the moment

For an extensive list of the programme’s learning outcomes, view the Bounce Forward Healthy Minds learning outcomes.

Service Description

Bounce Forward’s Healthy Minds programme is an evidence-based curriculum of 69 lessons for years 7 to 11. It is a scheme of work to be delivered by teachers in school. It aims to develop students’ psychological skills to build mental resilience and emotional wellbeing.

There has never been a more important time to support young people to build mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, so they thrive in education and beyond. Without these fundamental core skills, the following statistics are likely to rise:

  • 1 in 6 children in a classroom are likely to have a mental health/wellbeing problem (Children’s Society)
  • 50% of mental health problems start by the age of 14 (National Comorbidity Survey Replication)
  • 69 out of 72 - The UK ranking for children’s life satisfaction (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, January 2022)

For more information about the programme from teacher and student participants, see the Bounce Forward - Healthy Minds YouTube video.

Availability

All teaching resources are fully accessible for use once the programme has been purchased. 

Benefits
  • be pioneers with a preventative approach to mental health
  • a key feature of your school improvement plan
  • a language framework that will impact the culture of your school
  • learning that students and teachers enjoy
  • a skills-based curriculum that you can trust
  • meet statutory requirements
  • the programme is based on adolescent and neurological development
  • it is designed as a spiral approach that will create healthy brain growth with learning that builds and strengthens over time
  • Healthy Minds has a positive impact on general health, physical health, externalising behaviours and life satisfaction
  • evidence that students in receipt of the programme have lower levels of absence and fewer fixed-term exclusions, in particular amongst students receiving free school meals 
Cost

At a cost of £2,475, your setting will receive unlimited access to the full programme, with multiple logins allowed. The programme can be booked via the form at the bottom of the Healthy Minds - Bounce Forward page.

The package includes:

  • teaching resources for years 7 to 11 (69 lessons)
  • a complete developmental, spiral curriculum
  • pre-recorded, high quality training content
  • onboarding support and guidance

Schools wanting to start with just one year group can access individual year groups. Costs vary around £545. Please contact us via the enquiry form at the bottom of the webpage linked above about your specific requirement, so we can give you accurate pricing.