My Back to School Bubble

Based on your suggestions provided, ‘My Back to School Bubble’ aims to help children understand the new protective measures that may be in place at their school, in an age-appropriate way. It reinforce public health messages including the importance of hand and respiratory hygiene, while reassuring children that everyone makes mistakes, helping to combat feelings of anxiety, that have been reported by parents.

 The published story is available as a free download and can be found alongside our other resources on the e-Bug website.

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Welcome Back - When, Not If......

Guiding principles of welcoming pupils back to school post COVID-19

Coming back to school in a bubble!

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Mental Health Foundation Podcast - Series 3 

Series 3, episode 2 talks about the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on our mental health.  Recorded this in early September 2020 when for many of us, we had been seeing a gradual easing of lockdown, children heading back to school, students back to uni and some people heading back to work. For some people this brought longed-for opportunities. But for many, even the happy, much anticipated changes were difficult for our mental health. And lastly, we are still far from knowing what the pandemic means for our society moving forward.... This episode explores these big themes and has some great guests to help tackle them. Firstly, Bethan will be speaking to, Suba, a junior doctor who has been working in the Emergency Department of an NHS hospital in London during the coronavirus outbreak. Then Dr David Crepaz-Keay, who is the Head of Applied Learning at the Foundation. He will talk us through what has been happening with mental health in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic. Lastly, we finish with Bethan and Linda Liao, Digital Manager at the Mental Health Foundation sharing some tips on how we can look after our mental health during these uncertain times.

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Explaining social distancing to Children and Young People - The Hug

Sharing good practice and looking to the future

This booklet includes examples of good practice that schools have shared with us about how they have adapted and responded to the challenges of lockdown.

We also considered how learning from this period can help inform schools planning going forward.

Sharing good practice and looking to the future.

 Lenny and Lily

Wordless Stories

Wordless Books

Rationale for the happiness box

Love in Lockdown

A wordless story that shows how, with a bit of creativity, people can lead lives filled with live even in the most extraordinary circumstances, and how important vaccine uptake is for getting that long-awaited face-to-face meeting and hug

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