Mental Health Awareness Week
12th – 18th May 2025
Mental Health Awareness Week is organised by the Mental Health Foundation and is taking place from 12th-18th May, 2025. The theme for 2025 is ‘Community’.
The Foundation chose the theme as being part of a safe, positive community is vital for our mental health and wellbeing. We thrive when we have strong connections with other people and supportive communities that remind us, we are not alone. And kindness is an essential building block of strong, supportive communities.
There are so many other things you can do support good mental health too, such as moving your body, spending time in nature, getting enough sleep and spending time doing things you love.
Kindness and Mental Health
Why Kindness?
Kindness is a simple way to help EVERYONE. When we are kind to each other, it helps us to feel connected, builds strong relationships and strengthens our communities. Research has also shown that when we’re kind, when someone is kind to us or even if we just witness kindness, our bodies release feel-good hormones which lift our mood, giving us what’s known as a ‘Helper’s High’. It’s also been shown that people who are kind have much lower anxiety levels, age more slowly and have healthier hearts. Kindness isn’t just a nice thing to do, but can help us improve our own mental health and wellbeing, while helping others at the same time. And Mental Health Awareness Week is a perfect time to start!
Mental Health Awareness Week Virtual Assembly
We will be hosting live virtual assemblies for Mental Health Awareness Week.
Date: 12th May 2025
Time: 9.15am and 1.30pm
Suitable for: KS1 and 2
Mental Health Awareness Week
Resources for Teachers
Lesson Plans
We have a range of free video lesson plans focussed on all aspects of kindness, which are a great resource for Mental Health Awareness Week. They cover topics such as the impact kindness has on our physical and mental health, the importance of self-kindness, and how kindness can help us connect with others. Our lesson plans are designed for Key Stage 1 & 2, and meet many of the aims and objectives of the PSHE curriculum.
Self-Kindness Tips for Children
Our Self-Kindness page is all about why it’s so importance to be kind to our minds. Read 10 things we can do to help look after our mental health.
Visit our Self-Kindness page
Resources for children
Kids’ Kindness Club
Join our free Kids’ Kindness Club and you will receive a fortnightly email newsletter with Kindness Challenge, kind stories, competitions, quizzes, activities and the chance to earn your Kindness Badge and win prizes!
Last year in our Kids’ Kindness Club, we set a Kindness Challenge for children to complete our Positive Self-Talk activity sheet. We will be setting a new Kindness Challenge for Mental Heath Awareness Week in our June newsletter (out on 1st).
Kindness Calendar
Our Kindness Calendar can help you to get into kind habits – you’ll be spreading kindness for a whole month! Activities include being kind to yourself, being kind to others and being kind to the planet.
Kindness Books
Browse a selection of some of our favourite kind books.
Browse Kindness Books
You can find more free teaching resources here.
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