Check out some of our Frequently Asked Questions

Grow Your Mind takes a whole-school approach and our program establishes a foundational language of wellbeing. Our schools report this language is not only one that is explicitly taught to cover key wellbeing curriculum areas, but also our whole school approach offers  cross curriculum support and resources that can be utilised in a range of  learning situations, both in and outside the classroom.

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• Children are confident and involved learners
• Children are connected with and contribute to their world
• Children are effective communicators
• Children have a strong sense of identity
• Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

 We are a research based primary school wellbeing program that is based on 4 key pillars of research

1. Positive Psychology
2. Public Health
3. Social and emotional learning
4. Neuroscience.

We have also completed an external evaluation of the program with UOW Psychology researchers. Results of this study will be available in March 2022.

We are also committed to track our impact and help you see the positive changes that can come from using Grow Your Mind. We have impact measurement tools that we use to support this and are very happy to share impact reports with you.

Yes!

No! It will not!

The majority of Grow Your Mind schools already have an existing program. Grow Your Mind gives wings to 99% of all wellbeing programs. The only wellbeing program we would clash with would be one that focused purely on self-esteem and suggesting children should be happy all of the time. Grow Your Mind is instead about learning the skills to navigate life’s ups and downs. We want children and adults to look for evidence based character strengths in themselves and others and to name and feel a range of emotions.

Yes! A key focus for us is the wellbeing and professional development of our educators. Wellbeing isn’t a spectator sport. In order to be able to foster positive mental health knowledge and habits in our students, we need to have the knowledge of this for ourselves. 

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No! It will not!  The Grow Your Mind program has been designed by a teacher for busy teachers. As an educator you can explicitly teach the program, embed it across literacy units or grab wellbeing activities that take less than 5 minutes.

When you sign up to the Grow Your Mind School Program you get access to our Implementing Grow Your Mind Course.  We highly recommend that you start with this course before you begin.  It is free AND the gold standard way of embedding Grow Your Mind in your school, as evaluated by the University of Wollongong. The course is broken into sessions. The first to watch before you begin, the second to complete after using Grow Your Mind for a term or two and the third for those schools who have been using Grow Your Mind for a year or more. 

This course is a fantastic resource for training new staff and ensuring everyone feels confident and inspired to deliver the program and will also help re-energise staff and students, introducing fresh ideas and new content to keep engagement high.
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At the beginning everyone starts with the introductory lessons. This is where students learn about the animals that represent key areas of the brain, as well as the concept of what mental health is and how to look after it.

But the brain is only the beginning, and this is something important for educators to know. Grow Your Mind starts with the brain, but it doesn’t stop there.

From this foundation, the Units of Work curriculum expands into the real-life social and emotional skills students need as they grow. Students begin exploring topics such as friendship, belonging, resilience, identity, consent, respectful relationships and navigating challenges both offline and online.

None of our content has any religious affiliations. We do however promote and share the common values of kindness, compassion, love and service.

Our focus age group is from preschool through to Year 6. It is also for educators and for parents/carers.

Yes, there are multiple.

We have a scope and sequence for using the Grow Your Mind podcast, for using the Guess Who character strength videos AND we have a whole-school wellbeing scope and sequence.

We also have generous schools who have shared various scope and sequence plans for their settings.

At the beginning everyone starts with the introductory lessons. This is where students learn about the animals as well as the concept of what mental health is and how to look after it.

Please see does the school have a scope and sequence for more information on how the program progresses. 

To paint a brief picture though: 

After completing the 12 introductory lessons educators and students have 3 seasons of the award winning Grow Your Mind podcast to listen to as well as student workbooks to complete, lesson + resource lists to follow (20 episodes in total, most suited for Year 2 through to Year 6)

Each year we encourage educators to choose a wellbeing focus for their year group. There are units of work and activities throughout the platform to support this. An example may be: Year 6 will focus on values and being a leader, Year 4 will focus on healthy friendships, Year 1 on emotional regulation etc 

These are the steps we recommend when you are preparing to present Grow Your Mind to your colleagues/school leaders–

Step 1: Download and share this Prospectus

Step 2: Tell your school we are listed on Beyond Blue’s Be You Directory and endorsed by the NSW and SA Departments of Education.

Step 3: Get Your Education Team to book a demo with one of our team so they can see what we have on offer.

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The school kits have been designed to work alongside our online subscription program and make wellbeing and mental health messaging visible, beautiful and able to be referred to through the day in the classroom, library and beyond. Our physical resources also give students access to the resources, to be able to pick up and read, when they might need. While we encourage schools to adopt a whole of school language we also encourage a ‘choose your own adventure’ way of thinking. The gold standard of Grow Your Mind is to have our Online program, alongside some all important PD in the area of teacher wellbeing and physical resourcing/school kits for all classes. When you are a Digital subscriber you get 20% off our school kits and poster packs.

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