Hamish and Milo
Hamish and Milo is an intervention programme used with all students in Lower School at Horizon as part of their Personalised Learning to support with Mental Health and Wellbeing.
The programme consists of ten different packs on key emotional themes; friendship, resilience, anxiety, diversity, strong emotions and anger, change and transition, conflict resolution, loss and bereavement, sadness and self-esteem to support students’ emotional development.
These programmes have been developed by Clare Williams, who is a teacher and educational psychotherapist. Her work in the field of children’s mental health and education is driven by her desire to advocate and inspire schools and pastoral teams to prioritise children’s wellbeing.
Celebrating me – Diversity.
An intervention to allow students to celebrate, explore and understand the differences we all have including ourselves, breaking stereotypes and discrimination on the following.
Age
Race
Culture
Religion
Gender and sexual identity.
Disability
Families
Resilient me – Resilience
Helps students learn strategies to overcome the boundaries they set themselves, teaching them that we can give something a go, even if at first it appears daunting.
New beginnings – Change
An intervention to allow students to be open or learn new ways to open up about new changes in their lives, this could be:
Change in family dynamics.
Changing schools.
Moving house.
A friend moving school.
We look into different feelings we may experience and how we manage them.
Actions word and me – Conflict
An intervention that helps students understand how our words and actions affect others, but also how the actions and words affect us too.
Exploding me – Anger
Teaching students which can get dysregulated how to manage those strong feelings. Exploring and talking about the feeling of anger and frustration, teaching new strategies on how to safely deal with them,
My friends and me – Friendships
Celebrating friendships and identifying feelings we experience, these could be.
Anger
Jealousy
Hurt
Sadness
Happiness
Excitement
We learn strategies on how to cope and deal with fallings out and how we can move on, deciding on whether we make up or go our separate ways.
Amazing me – Self-esteem
Learning ways of celebrating ourselves for who we are, identifying our strengths and concentrating what we are good at and the positives.
Calm me – Anxiety
This intervention can be used for students who can become dysregulated through frustrations they may have. Identifying that our feelings and actions may come from a place of the unknown, therefore displaying behaviours that may come across as anger/frustration.
Finding me – Sadness
An intervention that explores what sadness is, where it may come from and how we live and cope with it through different strategies.
Memories and me – Loss
This intervention is there for students who are struggling with the loss of something or someone they love or care about, this is a sensitive intervention that is delivered with empathy. The intervention looks at the best way help a student understand their feelings associated with loss in a way they can understand.
Loss isn’t just about someone that has passed, for a student this could be.
Moving house/country or school
Missing an event or holiday
Losing an object that was special to them. Eg jewellery, comfort toy
Falling out with a friend or family member
Parental separation changes in family dynamics.
For further information, please visit: hamishandmilo.org