Mental Health and Wellbeing
In 2024, we obtained the silver award for Bradford’s Healthy Minds Chartermark.
This was a team effort and is a reflection of the hard work and dedication all of the staff have in school. The educational psychologist completed a report which outlines some of the things that we do to support the children and families across the school.
To achieve the silver award, we had to demonstrate that we had evidence linking to the following areas.
Mr Ruddock (Senior Mental Health Lead) and Mrs Merriman (Headteacher) attended an award ceremony in the Midland Hotel. We received our certificate, trophy and banner to share that we have achieved the silver chartermark. We will be continuing our work around supporting mental health and wellbeing by going for the gold award.
ep report frizinghall silver award letter final.pdf
In June 2025, Frizinghall Primary School achieved the Healthy Minds Chartermark - Gold Award. We are very proud of this achievement and staff have been working hard to support the mental health and well-being of pupils. The Educational Psychologist concluded the following:• There continues to be a clear whole-school approach to mental health and well-being which is outstanding and has been sustained since originally receiving the Silver Award.
• There is strong evidence of the use of data to identify need and measure the impact of emotional wellbeing/SEMH intervention support. This has strengthened the mentor support strategy considerably due to the rigorous evidence base underpinning their work.
• This school has sustained their highly inclusive approach to meeting social emotional and mental health needs.
• The school is highly effective at supporting and engaging parents.
What is the THRIVE Framework?
The THRIVE Framework for system change (Wolpert et al., 2019) is an integrated, person centred and needs-led approach to delivering mental health services for CYP and their families. It was developed by a collaboration of authors from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
The THRIVE Framework conceptualises need in five domains: Thriving, Getting Advice, Getting Help, Getting More Help and Getting Risk Support. Emphasis is placed on prevention of MHEWB difficulties, and the promotion of positive MHEWB across the whole population. CYP and their families are empowered through active involvement in decisions about their care through shared decision making, which is fundamental to the approach.
