This morning some of our staff were trained by MindWise NI in the Beyond Bricks Programme. This is a fun and interactive series of workshops which uses a ‘recovery to discovery’ approach to enhance overall mental health and well being in our children. Beyond Bricks is delivered through Lego based play which helps children to understand and learn resilience skills in the five key aspects of emotional well being as identified by the Education Authority.
This programme is full funded by Agnew Group and we received a number of boxes of Lego to help us begin our delivery of the programme. We feel very privileged to have been selected as one of forty schools in Northern Ireland to have been chosen to receive this training. We wish to thank Miss Devine and Miss McCauley who made the application on behalf of our school.
We look forward to piloting this programme over the next five weeks in Primary 3/4 and Primary 5/6.
