Well-Being Support

Here at Penwortham Priory Academy, we believe your well-being is of utmost importance. This section of the website signposts support in and out of school should you need it.

We believe there are a number of reasons why this support benefits you:

It helps you feel better: Wellbeing support can help you manage stress, anxiety, and other emotions, making you feel happier and more relaxed.
Improves Focus and Learning: When you feel good, it's easier to concentrate on your studies and do well in school.
Builds Stronger Friendships: Learning how to handle emotions and communicate effectively can help you make and keep friends.
Prepares You for the Future: Developing skills to manage your well-being now will help you handle challenges in the future, both in school and in life.
Creates a Positive Environment: When everyone feels supported, school becomes a more enjoyable and positive place to be.

On the tabs above and documents below, you will find information to support your well-being.

The holiday periods can be difficult for some - we would like to draw your attention to Kooth Digital Health.

Their services are open for students to access at any time. The chat queue on Kooth for a young person to speak with a qualified practitioner is open every day of the year at 12 noon-10pm on weekdays and 6pm-10pm on weekends.

If you or someone you know needs extra mental well-being support, go to kooth.com to chat to a practitioner today.

It is very easy to sign up - see the poster, or watch the video below.

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Kooth

Kooth presentation - how to sign up

Updated: 15/03/2025 3.11 MB

Letter for parents - introducing Kooth

Updated: 15/03/2025 132 KB

Booklet - Kooth for young Muslims

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Kooth guide to coping with exam stress

Updated: 15/03/2025 137 KB

The service offers therapeutic one-to-one, group work and counselling support to children and young people aged 5 to 18 (extending to 25 years based on SEN need) within the whole of the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) area.

No child should be left to deal with poor mental health alone so it provides services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing.

Lancashire and South Cumbria Thrive Service | Barnardo's

Compass Bloom is committed to helping children and young people grow through what they’re going through.

It provides free and confidential emotional health and wellbeing support for young people with mild to moderate emotional health and wellbeing needs who attend one of its allocated 87 schools and colleges.

How the service can help young people

It helps young people to build their skills to cope with:

Low mood: sadness, low motivation
Mild to moderate anxiety: worries, irrational fears and concerns
Difficulty in adjusting to change and transition
Difficulty in managing emotions: angry outbursts, frustration and distress

Early Intervention - Support Services Chorley and South Ribble

Chorley-and-South-Ribble-Early-Intervention-Mapping-Document.pdf

How you can access the service

Through School

Link workers meet monthly with the school's Designated Mental Health Lead. If you would like your young person to access this service please speak the school/designated mental health lead to share your concerns. Following this, Compass Bloom can discuss the best support for your young person; this may be a referral into the service, advice, guidance and/or signposting.

Parent/Carer Consultations

If your young person is experiencing low to moderate anxiety or low mood Compass Bloom can offer a consultation to support you to support them. This could be sharing resources, giving practical advice and guidance or signposting to appropriate services. If you would like to book a consultation please complete the online form by clicking on the link below and one of the Compass Bloom team will get in touch.

Parent/Carer Consultation Request

If you would like any more information about how you can access the Compass Bloom service you can speak to one of the team at -

01772 280123 or email compassbloom@compass-uk.org

With almost 13 years experience of working in schools, Charlotte recognises the vital role schools can play in supporting children and young people’s mental health and has campaigned over the years to make the discussion of mental health compulsory to the school curriculum.

How we support

Individual Assessment and Psychological Treatment of Student’s Mental Health: the psychotherapy offered includes Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and Compassionate Based Approaches.

To access this service please speak with a member of the pastoral team.

Providing support for young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBT).

Some young people who identify as LGBT can experience a lack of support, awareness and acceptance from their family, friends and other people in their lives.

LGBT groups can provide additional advice, support or a safe space to meet other young people who have had similar experiences.

Lancashire LGBT supports a number of groups and activities across Lancashire which provide a diverse range of opportunities for LGBT people. The Lancashire LGBT website provides details of support groups, volunteering, events and an Information and Support Helpline.

It includes four youth groups run by Lancashire County Council for young people aged 12-19 years:

Power To Be Out (POUT) in the South Ribble area Tel: 01772 532930 or email pout@lancashire.gov.uk.

Other organisations offering support and information

LGBT Consortium a national charity that supports LGBT groups, organisations and projects.

The Proud Trust in Manchester and surrounding areas has details of main events such as Manchester Pride and has support information on a range of issues on their website.

As a school we are often supplied with links to resources that help to support our parents. As and when these arrive with us, we will add the resources here.