What is Now and Beyond on Inside Out Day?

On the 3rd February 2021, Now and Beyond will host the UK’s first ever mental health and wellbeing festival for schools, during Children’s Mental Health Week. Beyond are a grant-giving organisation committed to making a difference to the mental health of young people up and down the UK. Beyond aims to provide the help currently lacking in mental health provision by giving grants to organisations and charities that work with young people, their families and educators.

Inside Out Day during Children’s Mental Health Week aims to remind young people to be kind always and think of others as no one knows how someone is feeling inside. On Inside Out Day everyone is urged to wear an item of clothing inside out, to help share this simple message and engage pupils in discussions around their emotional well-being and mental health.

Get involved by:

• Booking free online sessions with mental health experts.
• Access the school resources for the day Created by some of the most forward-thinking organisations in the mental health and wellbeing space.
• Tune in to free live webinars after school – Line-up includes BBC broadcaster and journalist Kate Silverton, Dr Dickon Bevington, medical director of The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
• Wear an item of clothing inside out, as a reminder to be kind always, as you never know how someone is feeling inside.

Materials For The Day:

Assemblies have been created to introduce pupils to the Now & Beyond Festival and its themes of kindness, resilience and gratitude. These can be shown during assembly or form time.

Time flexible lesson plans are available to download, free of charge. Lesson plans have been developed for KS1-KS4 that focus on one of three themes: kindness, gratitude or resilience.

Also: Mindfulness craft, SEND guidance for the day, a massive list of 28 free educational mental health and wellbeing resources from some of their partner organisations and more.

Live events are as follows:

• In Conversation with Katie Piper
• Keep Fit in Mind and Body with Dame Kelly Holmes
• Brain Boost with Bow-Wowza featuring Cbeebies presenters Rebecca Keatley and Katy Ashworth
• Hart Club Presents: Make Your Own Folk Beast
• In Conversation with the Amy Winehouse Foundation
• Happy Tips for your Happy Space
• Mindfulness with Joe Holtaway
• Teacher Wellbeing in the Current Climate by Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
• An introduction to Bloom (Mental Health UK)
• How To Be Happy with The Speakmans
• #LetsGoBeyond LIVE with Katie Thistleton, Dr Radha, Ben West, Alexis Caught and Shocka
• In Conversation with Kate Silverton and Dr Dickon Bevington
• Football and Mental Health with If U Care Share and Amber Stobbs, Luca Nelson, Cain Sykes, Charlie Kelman

Find out more and join in the fun by clicking below and follow along on Twitter @InsideOutDay1.

Thanks for reading,

Lynn