Schools Programme

We recognise the primary school community as the ideal opportunity to offer non-stigmatising universal education about mental health issues, teach children how to look after themselves emotionally and develop a shared language that enables children, teachers and parents to talk about psychological wellbeing.

CUES provides a digital mental health and wellbeing programme for Year 4, designed and created by Child Clinical Psychologists and CBT Therapists from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

The development and design of our teacher-led school programme has been shaped throughout by feedback from children and teachers to ensure accessibility and acceptability.

The content, aims and objectives of CUES fit the statutory guidance outline of mental health perfectly and will offer a comprehensive programme using evidence based techniques in an engaging format.

The CUES programme is delivered to whole classes in their usual class setting under the guidance of their class teacher. Children learn about how to look after themselves and their mental health and develop life-long skills to help manage difficulties.

You have flexibility to work through the programme at a pace that is best for your class. There are 7 modules in total – each divided into key learning objectives delivered through a combination of video, activity and teacher-led discussion – with short summaries and fun quizzes for re-cap.

The whole-class approach is essential to the programme - meaning all children learn about how to maintain mental health, whilst reducing stigma and encouraging shared learning opportunities.

Throughout the programme, there are skills and challenges for the children to complete to help embed the learning. There will also be opportunities to expand this learning if particular interests are piqued.

A hard copy CUES workbook is provided for each child to serve as a reminder of the learning.

From recent implementation of Digital CUES with 58 teachers:

100%

Teachers agreed that CUES was a useful intervention for their class.

98%

Agreed that the CUES Digital programme was easy to use.

98%

Agreed that they were able to identify what their class had learnt as lessons progressed.

93%

Thought CUES was a good match to current statutory PSHE guidelines.

100%

Said they would recommend the programme for another cohort.

Teachers' Feedback

CUES gave us all, me included, tools to use to help regulate emotions and unhelpful thoughts. It was so practical and so easy to apply that I feel strongly that it should be rolled out across the country. It is incredibly engaging and we loved it!

This is one of the most useful RHE (relationships and health education) teaching tools I have ever used. It was pitched perfectly for my class and they were very engaged with it.

We had a whole class situation earlier in the week where our Cues learning was incredibly helpful... I have never had the skills or confidence before to run a whole class session ad hoc, and whilst it only took 5 minutes, it was owned by them and it really really helped. Thank you!

CUES made very clear some of the sticky / difficult concepts in mental health. After each lesson we found that we were using the language and the strategies in our everyday classroom setting.

Children's Feedback

CUES have helped me control my emotions, they have helped with my self esteem, they have showed me questions I have never asked myself before and they have showed me that I am good enough as I am.