Wellbeing Anti-Bullying Alliance Member Member · ABW2026 partner

Mental Health & Anti-Bullying
Future Skills: Look After Their Mind

A thoughtful, high-energy workshop that helps primary students understand their emotions, build resilience, and develop practical strategies for looking after their mental health. Perfect for Anti-Bullying Week, Children's Mental Health Week, or any time your school needs a wellbeing boost.

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EYFS–Y6
Fully adaptable
Students exploring wellbeing and mental health in a Spark2 workshop
This workshop is part of our Mental Health workshops hub — see the full mental health & anti-bullying landing page.

Duration

35–60 mins

Class Size

Up to 32

Suitable For

EYFS – Year 6

What's Included

Everything
Plan Your Enrichment Calendar

Built for the weeks that matter most

This workshop aligns directly with the UK's biggest wellbeing awareness events. Same great workshop, themed to match your school's calendar.

16–20 November 2026

Anti-Bullying Week 2026

💬 This year's theme: Break the Silence

This year's theme invites pupils to break the silence on bullying — start the conversations, speak up, and listen. Our workshop turns the theme into practical activities your school can run all week. Kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday — celebrating what makes us all unique — and close with Friendship Friday.

  • Kindness Chain — pledges to be kind to classmates, family & themselves
  • Feelings Check-In — naming when something isn't right
  • Supporting Others — being a good friend & knowing when to tell an adult
🧦 Odd Socks Day · Monday 🤝 Friendship Friday #BreakTheSilence
Anti-Bullying Alliance Associate Member
February

Children's Mental Health Week

Give your school a dedicated focus day where every child builds their emotional toolkit.

  • Stress Busters — breathing, grounding & sensory techniques
  • Mindful Moments — calm is a skill, not a personality trait
  • My Worry Toolkit — a personalised set of strategies to take home
Aligned with Place2Be's annual campaign
10 October

World Mental Health Day

Mark the day with a hands-on experience that goes beyond an assembly or poster display.

  • Growth Mindset Challenge — the power of 'yet' and reframing failure
  • Feelings Check-In — emotional vocabulary for every age
  • Stress Busters — practical techniques they'll use beyond the day
Supports WHO global awareness campaign
About This Workshop

Help your students build the emotional toolkit they'll use for life

The Look After Their Mind workshop creates a safe, supportive space where children can explore how they feel, why they feel that way, and what they can do about it. This isn't a lecture about mental health — it's an experience that gives students real tools they can use today.

Every session is adapted to your year group. Reception and Year 1 explore feelings through stories, colours, and creative play. Year 2 and 3 learn calming techniques and practise naming emotions. Year 4 and 5 tackle growth mindset, stress management, and building positive habits. Year 6 develop emotional leadership skills, supporting others and building resilience for the transition to secondary school.

A perfect fit for Anti-Bullying Week, Children's Mental Health Week, PSHE curriculum enrichment, or as an ongoing part of your school's wellbeing strategy.

Adapted by Year Group

Every age gets the right experience

Your facilitator adapts the content, language, and activities so every child gets a session that's right for them — from storytelling with Reception to emotional leadership with Year 6.

EYFS & Year 1
Stories, colours & creative play
Year 2 & 3
Calming techniques & naming emotions
Year 4 & 5
Growth mindset & stress management
Year 6
Emotional leadership & resilience
What We Cover

An overview of the workshop

Six themes that build on each other across the day. Your facilitator adapts depth, pace and examples to suit the year groups in the room — and the awareness week your school is marking.

1

Naming the feelings

We open by giving pupils the words. Emotion wheels, colour cards, body maps — the small things that make it normal to talk about how you actually feel.

Anti-Bullying Week Mental Health Week
2

Tools for tough moments

Practical techniques for managing stress and big feelings — breathing, grounding, movement breaks, sensory tools. Things pupils can use the same week.

Mental Health Week World MH Day
3

Calm is a skill

Mindfulness as a learnable practice, not a personality trait. Short, age-appropriate moments of focus that pupils can take back into the classroom — and the rest of life.

Mental Health Week
4

The power of yet

Growth mindset in action. Tackling tricky things, treating mistakes as data, and reframing the inner critic. "I can't do this" becomes "I can't do this yet."

World MH Day Mental Health Week
5

Kindness in action

Empathy, friendship and the things that hold a class together. Pupils contribute to a kindness chain that goes up in the school hall — a visible reminder for the week that follows.

Anti-Bullying Week
6

Speak up, ask for help

Knowing your trusted adults, and finding the words when you or someone else isn't OK. The piece that turns awareness into action.

Anti-Bullying Week Mental Health Week
Learning Outcomes

What students take away

Every session is designed around measurable outcomes that align with the National Curriculum and PSHE frameworks.

Emotional vocabulary

Students can name and describe their emotions accurately, and understand that all feelings are valid.

Stress management strategies

Students have a personal toolkit of practical techniques they can use when they feel stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed.

Growth mindset understanding

Students understand that abilities grow through effort and that mistakes are part of learning, not evidence of failure.

Supporting others

Students know how to be a good friend to someone who's struggling and when to ask an adult for help.

This wasn't just a workshop — it gave our children a shared language for talking about their feelings. Weeks later, they're still using the breathing techniques and reminding each other about growth mindset. The impact has been genuine and lasting.
PSHE Lead
Primary School, Bristol
Pricing & Your Workshop Day

Mission-Led Pricing for Future Skills

Every child deserves these skills. We’ve kept Future Skills workshops accessible to every school’s PSHE budget — including Pupil Premium — so price is never the reason a class misses out.

Half Day

Up to 4 sessions
£599 Future Skills accessible price
£499
+VAT
Up to 128 students · £3.87 per student
  • 35–60 min sessions
  • Up to 32 students per session
  • EYFS – Year 6 adaptable
  • All resources & materials included
  • Dedicated facilitator
Best Value

Full Day

Assembly + up to 6 workshops
£799 Future Skills accessible price
£599
+VAT
Whole school · from £2.66 per student
  • Whole-school or key stage assembly to launch the day
  • Up to 6 class workshops (35–60 min)
  • Up to 32 students per workshop
  • EYFS – Year 6 adaptable
  • Differentiated worksheets for every year group
  • Digital resources teachers can reuse all year
  • All materials & dedicated facilitator included
✨ After your workshop

Make it stick — add the Future Skills Passport

Workshops are how schools meet the Future Skills Passport. The Passport is the year-long journey — pupils carry their progress from one workshop to the next, and teachers get the statutory PSHE evidence built in.

  • ✓Year-long progression tracking across all 12 Future Skills strands
  • ✓Pupil badges & certificates they can show parents and take to Year 7
  • ✓Statutory PSHE auto-mapped to the DfE framework — no spreadsheets
  • ✓One-click inspection PDF — per pupil, per class, whole-school
  • ✓Members’ discount on every additional Spark2 workshop
  • ✓Free staff training session included with every subscription
Explore the Future Skills Passport →

From £249/year for a single class · whole-school options available

Sample full-day timetable

Start with a whole-school assembly to set the tone, then deliver focused workshops to every class. We’re flexible — we’ll work around your timetable.

9:00 – 9:25
Whole-School Assembly
All years · 25 min
9:30 – 10:15
Workshop 1
e.g. Year 5 · 45 min
10:20 – 10:55
Workshop 2
e.g. Year 6 · 35 min
10:55 – 11:10
Morning break
11:10 – 11:55
Workshop 3
e.g. Year 3 · 45 min
12:00 – 12:40
Workshop 4
e.g. Year 4 · 40 min
12:40 – 1:30
Lunch break
1:30 – 2:05
Workshop 5
e.g. Year 2 · 35 min
2:10 – 2:45
Workshop 6
e.g. Year 1 / EYFS · 35 min
More Than a Workshop

Resources that keep working after we leave

Every booking includes a set of resources your teachers can use again and again — no extra cost, no subscription required.

Interactive Worksheets

Differentiated for every year group (EYFS–Y6). Available as printable PDFs and interactive digital versions teachers can set as follow-up activities.

Whole-School Assembly

A 25-minute assembly to launch the day with a shared message. Perfect for setting the tone during Anti-Bullying Week or Children's Mental Health Week.

Digital Resource Pack

A link to downloadable resources sent after your visit — so teachers can revisit the activities, run follow-up lessons, and embed the learning across the term.

🧠 Statutory PSHE

Mental wellbeing is statutory in primary schools since 2020

If you're auditing your school's mental health provision against the statutory PSHE Health Education framework, see our complete mental health workshops guide for primary schools — what statutory provision looks like, year-group breakdown, Children's Mental Health Week planning and how to demonstrate compliance.

Read the mental health provision guide →
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