Childrens Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Wiltshire Competition
Monday 15th January 2024
We’d like to inform you about Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, which will take place from the 5th of February to the 11th of February this year. This year’s theme is “My Voice Matters”, emphasizing the importance of empowering children to express themselves.
As part of the awareness week, we are thrilled to announce a Wiltshire competition that will give local educational settings an opportunity to actively engage in the theme’s promotion. The “My Voice Matters” Competition aims to showcase the creative and thoughtful ways adults and young people can contribute to the conversation around children’s mental health by taking time to reflect on what matters to you.
“My Voice Matters” Wiltshire Competition Outline
Task:
For young people to creatively express “What Matters to Them”, considering what matters in daily life, and in a wider context including community, culture and global issues that may shape how we think about things that matter to us.
This can be through any medium such as, but not limited to: visual arts, written expression, multimedia presentations and performance arts, but does need to be able to be sent across via email.
Place2Be has a suggested template format for Primary and Secondary aged pupils which may help if you are stuck for ideas: e.g:
Judging Criteria:
There will be two separate categories based on age: 5-11 and 11-18.
-Expressive Quality, Creativity and Originality
-Relevance to Theme “What Matters to You”
-Overall Impact of the submission
Submission Requirements and Deadline:
Please submit your responses to PHadmin@wiltshire.gov.uk by the 22nd February 2024
You must include the age category entered and the initial of the first name and surname of the young person (this will only be used for identifying winners within the competition).
If you would like to promote entries on social media, please use the following hashtags:
#WiltshireCYPMH24 #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek and feel free to tag @Place2Be
Prizes:
Winners will be announced on the 5th of March
Winning Young People and educational settings will have a selection of books to choose from.
Entries will be showcased on the Wiltshire Healthy Schools website
We recognise that your time is limited and have attached two presentations based on age to support you in sharing this. Please feel free to edit these as needed.
Wiltshire competition resources
PowerPoint versions of these slides can be accessed by Wiltshire Schools on Right Choice here.
