Children's Mental Health Week 2025

School Assemblies

Making it normal to talk about emotional wellbeing is extremely important in supporting people to manage their emotions. 

This is for both the person who might be experiencing some big emotions and for the rest of us to notice and offer support.  

Children's Mental Health Week was a good reason for us to visit schools, delivering assemblies about emotions and ensuring the kids made lots of noise.  

Teaching children that they are in charge of how they feel and that they can make their emotions bigger and smaller was the theme of the assemblies we delivered to the little ones - KS1. 

Teaching them that they could make Angry smaller and Happy Bigger was easily achieved by Ali Knowles' unique way of engaging children.  The kids made grumpy faces for their Angry and then started with only small smiles for slightly happy but ended up with huge grins and making lots of noise as Happy got HUGE.

For the older children (KS2) reinforcing that they shouldn't let bad words in their head or the hearts was added to the assemblies.  Ali told her story of how she was bullied as a child because of her dyslexia, being called lots of names and children being really nasty towards and how those words and names affected her.