In Summary
Every participating school and college in our MHoF programme receives a free bespoke report about the wellbeing of their students. It helps them to target resources, embed whole-school approaches to tackling wellbeing, and establish ways to improve student and pupil wellbeing.
My Health, Our Future (MHoF) is Suffolk’s biggest annual survey of young people’s physical and mental wellbeing.
On this page, you can find information about how schools and colleges have told us they use their bespoke reports to improve the wellbeing of their students.
“MHoF has helped with planning our targeted approach to student wellbeing, enabling students to receive more of the support they need in ways they like it.” – Claydon High School
Schools, colleges, and other education providers support MHoF by sharing our survey with their pupils and students. Every participating school with enough responses receives a free bespoke report from us about the wellbeing of their students.
Our reports help them to compare the wellbeing of their students against county and national data sets. Ultimately, they help them to consider their whole-school approach to improving the wellbeing of their school or college community.
Watch: MHoF at the Eastern Education Group
We caught up with pastoral leaders at the Eastern Education Group, and a student, to understand more about how our project is helping the colleges to support students and direct resources.
What have schools and colleges said?
Here are just a few of the ways schools and colleges have told us they used their MHoF reports:
- Re-writing the content of lessons to make sure students have opportunities to learn about things that matter to them.
- Targeting support to groups of students who need it most (e.g., those facing inequalities, such as LGBT*Q+ young people). This has included the establishment of staff-led peer groups, topical assemblies with external speakers, and much more.
- Influencing and shaping the support provided by pastoral teams. For example, this has included support provided to students while they are taking part in the survey and using the data to inform decisions about how pastoral support is resourced and funded.
- Inspiring initiatives such as wellbeing days and displays, parent workshops (focused on MHoF topics and themes), and workshops for staff and students discussing MHoF insights.
- Helping students to support each other (e.g., by training older students in mental health first aid, identifying student mental health champions, and more).
“We have used the results of the survey to inform changes to the structure of our school day (adding in movement time between lessons)”.
We have created a report featuring many examples of things schools, colleges, and other education providers have done in response to our MHoF insights and reports.
Download the PDF document now to discover more and read testimonials from schools and colleges across the county.