Our Mental Health Lead is Ms Sarah Langford, Assistant Headteacher

Email: sarah.langford@thsp.org.uk

Our Wellbeing Mission Statement

At The Park Community School, we are committed to nurturing a supportive, inclusive, and compassionate environment where every student feels valued, heard, and empowered. We believe that positive mental health and wellbeing are the foundations for personal growth, academic success, and lifelong resilience.

Recognizing the unique challenges of our rural community, including limited access to local mental health resources, we strive to bridge this gap by providing clear signposting to trusted online support services and digital wellbeing tools. We endeavour to ensure that every student and their family knows where to turn for help, both within and beyond our school community.

Our mission is to equip students with the skills, confidence, and emotional literacy they need to build resilience and face life’s challenges with strength and self-assurance. We prioritize fostering trusting relationships between students and the adults within our school, ensuring that every student knows there is always someone ready to listen, support, and advocate for them.

We recognize that mental well-being is a collective effort. That’s why we actively engage parents and carers as key partners in supporting their child’s mental health. Through workshops, communication, and signposting to both local and online resources, we empower families to play an active role in their child’s well-being journey.

Our approach embeds well-being into every aspect of school life – from the classroom to extracurricular activities – creating safe spaces for reflection, self-expression, and support. By encouraging students to seek help and trust the adults around them, we ensure they are prepared to thrive, not just in school, but in life.

Together, we cultivate a whole-community approach to wellbeing where mental health is not just supported but celebrated, no matter the challenges we face.

Mental Health ongoing newsletter 2025

Resources:

• 10 Places to get help Poster
• Mindfulness workshop programme slides
• Lets-Talk-Teenagers-Toolkit-for-parents-and-carers-of-teenagers
• EH4MH 10 a day poster
• Getting a good nights sleep
• Shared decision making about mental health support
• Creating a self-care plan
• Low Mood: A Young Persons Fact Sheet
• Anxiety: Young Persons Fact Sheet
• Talking to young people about mental health
• 13-18 CHAT Health poster
• SHOUT
• Space Youth Services

Visit our Advice and Support page for more resources:

School Nursing team service 

Follow this link to the Devon County Council website for more information on School nursing:

The School Nursing service across North Devon, Torridge & Okehampton aim to provide a responsive early intervention and prevention service for all school aged children. The first point of contact for any referral or discussion is via the PHN Hub which is supported by School Nurses from across the county.

In addition to telephone or teleconference support to children, families, and young people, they offer needs-led face to face appointments with locations informed by number and priority of referrals received.

Referrals can be made using this link: Request for School Nurse Support

School Nurses offer:

• Clinical triage, advice, guidance, support and signposting through PHN hub to families & professionals
• Confidential text-based advice and support for young people aged 11-19
• Telephone & Teleconference appointments to children, young people and their parents/carers
• Face to face appointments via community and school based clinics and where required home-based appointments.
• Contribution to safeguarding, early help and EHCP plans (where there is an identified public health nursing need)
• National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP) and targeted follow up calls.
• Support with health care plans where health needs are more complex or changeable.