Harry Kane Foundation, which aims to change the way people think about mental health, has announced a new partnership with a 15-year-old charity, Bounce Forward, a renowned charity that supports children and the adults around them to build resilience and emotional wellbeing and Upper Wharfedale has been chosen to be one of 17 lead schools across the country in this exciting project.
Harry Kane Foundation, which aims to change the way people think about mental health, has announced a new partnership with a 15-year-old charity, Bounce Forward, a renowned charity that supports children and the adults around them to build resilience and emotional wellbeing and Upper Wharfedale has been chosen to be one of 17 lead schools across the country in this exciting project.
Harry Kane Foundation, which aims to change the way people think about mental health, has announced a new partnership with a 15-year-old charity, Bounce Forward, a renowned charity that supports children and the adults around them to build resilience and emotional wellbeing and Upper Wharfedale has been chosen to be one of 17 lead schools across the country in this exciting project.
The schools across all nine regions of England are benefiting from the Harry Kane Foundation’s support by being set up with the high quality Healthy Minds teaching resources that feature bespoke content co-authored by Harry and his wife, Kate.
The partnership will provide free psychological fitness training and educational resources, designed to nurture and build mental resilience, and emotional wellbeing and proven to have positive impact. These resources will be available in schools, workplaces, and to a broader audience through Harry’s influence, platforms, and networks, with the goal of promoting positive mental health across all generations.
To date Bounce Forward has amassed over 175 member schools, reached 14,000+ parents, and is working with the Harry Kane Foundation with ambition to enable every primary and secondary school in the country to access its resources entirely free of charge and for it to embed into the core curriculum for long term impact.
Harry said: “I’m proud of the work my foundation has achieved over the last year and am excited that we will extend our reach and impact through a new partnership with Bounce Forward. We are supporting Bounce Forward because they are experts in their field and have developed evidence-based resources that align perfectly with our aim of promoting the benefits of positive self-belief and the connection between physical and mental health.”
Lucy Bailey, CEO at Bounce Forward, said: “Harry and Kate’s commitment to influence how we think about mental health is perfectly timed. When it comes to mental health, prevention is so much better than cure, and our psychological health is as important as physical health. It is increasingly challenging to navigate our changing and complex world. For adults it is hard, for children it is even harder. We need to teach our children, as part of their core education, and there is no better way than with Healthy Minds. Teaching our children about the brain, the role of positive emotions and the value of optimism and human connection is vital learning for the world we live in. We need to help young people not only to deal well with the setbacks they will inevitably face throughout life, but also equip them to embrace opportunities around them. Its impressive evidence base includes improving attendance, which is of growing concern for schools reducing fixed term exclusions as well as improving health and wellbeing outcomes.”
“As a school we know that students can only perform academically if they are in a stable place emotionally and have the resilience to cope with the knocks of life. We believe that education is about so much more than outcomes at GCSE and we are therefore delighted to be a Bounce Forward / Harry Kane Foundation lead launch school and to get the chance to use Healthy Minds resources to continue to upskill our staff and to develop the resilience and wellbeing of our whole school community.”
Upper Wharfedale will benefit from important new lessons inspired by Harry. They will deliver learning on the role that exercise, nutrition and sleep has on mental health.
Kate has long had an interest in mindful practice, and over the next year will be piloting brand new lessons called Intentional Stillness that teach calming and focusing techniques as a way to nurture and build positive mental health.
As parents themselves, Harry and Kate recognise the many challenges and changes during childhood, and no one child is the same. Bounce Forward’s Raise Resilience programme has reached over 14,000 parents already and through the partnership we will look at ways to reach as many parents as possible, giving them the knowledge, skills, and practical resources to build and nurture resilience.
By working together to build mental resilience amongst young people and the adults around them, we aim to support changes to the following:
- The UK is ranked 69th out of 72 countries for children’s life satisfaction, Healthy Minds is proven to increase life satisfaction.
- 3 in 5 parents worry about their children’s mental health, and 64% teachers confirm that students are turning to them at least once a week for advice about their wellbeing. We are supporting schools, teachers and parents.
- 50% of adult mental health problems start by the age of 14, and why teaching and learning in school is so important.
- Our children’s wellbeing is at its lowest - 5 children in a classroom of 30 are likely to have a mental health/wellbeing problem, and why we believe that when it comes to mental health prevention is better than cure.
