At Woodside, we believe in promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing. Prioritising the wellbeing of students and staff ensures that outstanding teaching and learning can take place, and that the school is a community where everyone feels able to thrive.

Our Shared Values

Our Shared Values underpin everything that we do. Woodside High is a community where we want everyone to feel supported, safe and happy.

Mental Health and emotional wellbeing is detailed as a priority in our strategic development plan and across the school via posters, displays, behaviour systems, school newsletters, magazines, student and staff planners.

We are also an Emotional Wellbeing trailblazer school and work with deep:black on a range of different programmes throughout the year. You can read our latest report here.

Our Student Equality Group

Prejudicial and discriminatory behaviour can have a profoundly negative impact on the health and emotional well-being of all members of any community. In 2014 students set up an Equality and Diversity Group to help campaign against discriminatory behaviour. Since then, the Equality Group has achieved a phenomenal amount – from speaking in front of 500 people at the Southbank Centre’s “Women of the World” event, going to Downing Street to campaign with Oxfam, having an article published on the Oxfam Education site, to designing and delivering whole-staff training in school.

Their work has been recognised by the Speakers’ School Council award, a national award given by UK Parliament, for their work in reducing the stigma around mental health. Woodside’s Peer Mentors have been recognized for their work in effectively challenging bullying, supporting their peers and ensuring all young people at Woodside feel happy and safe. Our Peer Mentors have won the Diana award, the Haringey Community Impact award and the Haringey Heroes award. Woodside was successful in achieving the Silver award for Healthy Schools through our work in promoting not only positive physical health but also positive mental health.

Our partners

Woodside students meet and work with a number of role models and organisations who represent wider society. We work collaboratively with a range of national and international groups – Stonewall, Diversity Role Models, Think Well, Young Minds and Time to Change to name but a few. Students benefit enormously from the involvement of these organisations and people.

Resources

Publications on mental health

White Hart Lane,
Wood Green
London, N22 5QJ

020 8889 6761
020 8365 8164
mail@mulberrywoodside.org

Part of the

Mulberry Academy Woodside is part of the Mulberry Schools Trust which is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (Company No. 10035860).

Company’s registered office: Mulberry Schools Trust, Richard Street, Commercial Road, London E1 2JP.