Positive Mental Health and Well-being

Mental health and well-being is essential to student success.  We believe in creating a school community where everyone feels cared for - safe, seen, heard, supported and significant.

At Linden Meadows we believe that positive mental health helps children:

• have increased capacity to learn and develops resiliency

• supports the regulation of emotions

• enhances coping and problem-solving skills

• increases engagement, achievement and attendance

• enhances empathy and respect for diversity. 

• decreases bullying and aggression

We practice mindfulness in classrooms, include yoga as part of the physical education programming, focus on reframing student thinking from fixed mindset to a growth mindset language, begin each morning with a morning meeting or advisory group/alternating days of the cycle with Active Start, and we have several specialist programs such as: Roots of Empathy; Horse Connection and Project 11. Our counsellor teaches health to students to promote acts of kindness.