Briarwood School

Awards

Mental Health and Wellbeing Specialist

About the school's work

Mental Health and Wellbeing Specialist Award: 20 January 2022 to 20 January 2025

Congratulations to Briarwood School who are the first school to progress from the Essential to Specialist Awards.

The Briarwood School submission was very strong.

The strengths of the submission included (but are not limited to):

  • delivering mental health training for staff
  • a strong focus on supporting staff mental health
  • providing regular (formal and informal) support and supervision open to all pupils and staff
  • development of Vulnerable Plus to enable the school to provide meaningful support to the most vulnerable pupils
  • running regular calls and virtual meetings with families to discuss any concerns
  • planning the relaunch of the parent community engagement project
  • regularly evaluating the curriculum with pupils and acting on their feedback

Well done Briarwood School!