FREE Wellbeing Resources for Schools
Children’s Mental Health Week takes place between 3rd and 9th February this year. Its theme is “Know Yourself, Grow Yourself” and to coincide with the event, we are excited to announce the relaunch of our new and improved Wellbeing topical pack for 2025!
Designed to support pupils’ mental health and emotional wellbeing in the primary school classroom, this updated and extended resource pack is perfect for teachers wanting to provide extra support for a particular child or to promote positive mental health more generally.
What’s in the new and improved Wellbeing topical pack?
Our 2025 Wellbeing pack is filled with fresh content and tools. Here’s what’s included:
- Wellbeing facts, including an explanation of the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’
- NEW! Mood meters and daily journal check-ins to encourage self-reflection and awareness
- Mindful colouring templates to promote relaxation
- Information-sharing activities to build empathy and understanding
- NEW! Brain break activity suggestions to give your pupils’ brains a breather so that they are ready to learn again
- NEW! Goal-setting exercises to foster focus and resilience
How can Busy Things support your pupils’ wellbeing?
In addition to our updated Wellbeing topical pack, Busy Things offers a range of interactive activities designed to promote positive mental health and provide children with opportunities to share their likes/dislikes. Here are a few highlights:
Choices graphs
Help your pupils understand themselves as a group while giving them the chance to make meaningful choices. For example, let them vote on the sport they’d like to play in PE or whether to work independently, in groups, or as a class for a specific task.
All you need to do is collect the votes using our Busy graph maker and see which option wins!
NOTE: Watch this video to understand the potential within Busy graph maker.
Journalling projects
Encourage self-reflection and mindfulness through journalling activities. Writing or drawing journal entries can help children process their emotions, think critically about their experiences and build self-awareness.
Our templates support daily or weekly wellbeing check-ins, providing children with the opportunity to reflect and giving teachers valuable insights into their thoughts.
Try the ‘Write a journal entry’ activity, available from Year 2 upwards, here!
Calming activities
Many activities on Busy Things are inherently calming, offering children a chance to reground themselves so they’re ready to tackle learning afresh. These can be found in each year’s specific Brain break area (as explained in our recent Brain break blog:
One of these activities is ‘Busy bounce’ (right).
Click or tap the scene to separate the items or use the microphone to do the same. Drag an item to move it to a different place.
Summary
We hope this blog has provided you with some fresh ideas and practical tools to monitor and support your pupils’ mental health. To recap, here’s what’s available for free:
- Wellbeing topical pack (download above)
- Busy graph maker
- Write a journal entry activity
- Busy bounce activity
Want to see more activities?
If you’d like to explore more games and activities on Busy Things to support your pupils’ wellbeing or learning in general, why not take advantage of our free 28-day trial? Click here to get started. We also offer virtual tours via Zoom – contact us here to schedule one this week!
This blog was revised and updated in January 2025.