St. Peter's Catholic Primary School

This year's Children's Mental Health Week is from the 6th - 12th February. The theme this year is Let's Connect which is about making meaningful connections for all, during Children's Mental Health Week - and beyond. Human beings thrive in communities, and this connection is vital for our wellbeing, and our survival. When we have healthy connections – to family, friends and others – this can support our mental health and our sense of wellbeing. And when our need for rewarding social connections is not met, we can sometimes feel isolated and lonely – which can have a negative impact on our mental health. 

For more information please click on the image below. 

We have signed up to the DfE Education Staff Wellbeing Charter as a public commitment to actively promote mental health and wellbeing in our school. 

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is beginning the roll out of a new anonymous and secure text messaging service for parents and carers of children and young people aged 0-19 years old, enabling them to get timely and trusted health advice from a health professional (a Health Visitor or School Nurse).

As our lives have changed over the last few months due to coronavirus, it’s more important than ever for young people families to have easy access to support, particularly in the absence of face to face interaction.

The service (which is available in Warrington, Halton and Oldham) does not aim to replace face to face contacts, rather increase choice for service users about how they access advice from a health professional and provides a new line of communication as face to face contact is reduced.

The Health Visitor or School Nurse will be able to answer a variety of health and wellbeing issues including anxiety, bullying, child development and sexual health.

The ChatHealth text number will operate Monday-Friday from 9am until 5pm.

Messages will be responded to within 24 hours during this period. Outside these hours, service users will receive a ‘bounce back’ text message indicating that they will receive a response when the line re-opens. Of course, ChatHealth is not an emergency service, and accordingly parents will be instructed to follow usual advice in seeking urgent medical attention.

The text numbers for Warrington are:

0 - 5 Parents Service – 07507 327981

5 - 19 Parents Service – 07480 635994

11 - 19 Young People's Service – 07507 330101

Alternatively, please click on the image below to be taken to the Chat Health website to start a chat.