Barnardo's Education Community Booklets

Booklets, activities, and posters have an important place in supporting learning in the key areas of mental health, trauma, loss, grief, and bereavement.

However, the key resource is obviously the adult working with the child/children and their skills, knowledge and understanding and values.

NEW - Therapeutic Games and Activities

for relationship building

Booklet

The Change Challenge

The aim of this booklet is to promote the importance of developing strategies to cope with change.

Booklet

Back to school - Primary

The aim of this booklet is to explore key themes when returning to school: routine, relationships, feelings, and managing change.

Booklet

Back to school - Secondary

The aim of this booklet is to explore key themes when returning to school: routine, relationships, feelings, and managing change.

Booklet

Mental health and wellbeing

Fy Mhecyn Ymdopi (My Coping Toolbox - Welsh)

Fill Yourself Up With Nature (Booklet Version)

For ages 16+

Fill Yourself Up With Nature (A4 Version)

For ages 16+

Wellbeing Advent Calendar (Booklet Version)

For ages 3-12

Wellbeing Advent Calendar (A4 Version)

For ages 3-12

Returning to School Life After Lockdown

For ages 3-12

External resource - Learning to Live with Fog Monsters (VIP-CLEAR project)

This KS2 learning resource aims to deliver high quality, research informed lessons that could really make a difference to wellbeing, resilience, and understanding of challenging times; comes with accompanying teacher’s notes.

External resource - If Racism Vanished for a Day (RESPECT Project)

The RESPECT project undertook research exploring the lived experiences of racism and their impacts on children’s mental health and wellbeing. One of the outputs of this work was a book co-authored by 17 of the 9-11 year olds in the study - offering a way in for people to have conversations about racism.