A podcast about mental health is helping schoolchildren flourish

Pupils in Australia have been working on a podcast about mental health to help children and teachers around the world stay resilient.

The students at Woollahra Public School in Sydney have been working with social enterprise Grow Your Mind to create the podcast, which they hope will offer any child or teacher the chance to learn how to stay resilient.

“I used to hear a lot ‘the kids need to be more resilient’,” says Nicole Molloy, the school’s principal, who has been a teacher for 25 years.

“We don’t say that they need to be able do this maths problem; we explicitly teach them how to complete the maths problem. So why shouldn’t we be doing that for mental health? Why shouldn’t we be giving them the building blocks for being more resilient or hopeful?”

Image: Woollahra school