Healthy Minds

We are committed to working together with our local community.

At Tinsley Meadows Primary Academy, we are engaging with the Healthy Minds Project in Sheffield. Healthy Minds puts emotional resilience at the heart of children’s health and wellbeing and recognises its impact on their learning, behaviour and attainment. By providing a stable, nurturing and protective environment, we can help children learn how to regulate their emotions and develop healthy relationships with other children and school staff. These abilities will have a huge impact on their emotional resilience and satisfaction with their lives.

Each class from Y1 – Y6 has a Healthy Minds Champion, who is voted in by their class mates during the pupil elections. During the year, these pupils work alongside the school’s Educational Mental Health worker on a project of their choosing which aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the school.

They also support children on the playground who may find themselves without a friend to play with by talking to them, finding out what activities they like to do and helping the child to join in.

FRMAT Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy – Children 2026

putting emotional resilience at the heart of children’s health and wellbeing

providing a stable, nurturing and protective environment

Healthy Minds forms an important part of Sheffield’s Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Strategy for Children and Young People which was developed by Sheffield City Council and the Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group.

The project is led by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust’s CAMHS team working in collaboration with schools across the city.