Health & Wellbeing

At Burnham Grammar School, we are committed to ensuring our pupils are happy and healthy at school and in the wider community.

Although supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our students is a shared responsibility, we have a core team who are focused on providing support to students.

The Staff Mental Health First Aiders at BGS are:

Miss Adby , Miss White , Mr Burrows, Mr Churchouse, Mr Conroy, Mrs Hudson, Mr John, Mr Lennon, Mrs Wrycraft, Miss Stoneham, Mrs Farrell, Miss Pye, Mrs Yasmeen, Mrs Newell, Miss Rashid, Mrs Gupta, Mr Kay, Mrs Covus, Mrs Clarke, Ms Hafeez, Ms Banks, Mrs Gerring, Ms Griffiths, Mr Earnshaw-Crofts, Ms Clayson, Miss Caiafa, Miss Dixon, Mr Bulteel, Miss Hussain, Ms Lamb, Mr Leung, Dr Gillespie, Mrs Balderson.

Students can ask for support via any of the Wellbeing Team, they can come to the Pastoral Office or they can use the Report Concern Button on the School Website and the team will respond to this accordingly.

Bucks Mental Health Support Team:

Burnham Grammar School are pleased to announce that we are now working closely with Bucks Mental Health Support Team. Please check our website regularly for support-advice for parents/carers and students. 

Who they are: -

Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) are part of a Government Green Paper aimed at transforming and expanding children’s and young people’s access to mental health support in education settings.

Mental Health Support Teams complement existing emotional and wellbeing support in schools.

We do this by providing expertise and resources to deliver support to individuals who may not typically meet the CAMHS thresholds but would benefit from accessing evidence-based mental health interventions.

We are hosted by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

We work to an allocated school model so each practitioner will have a portfolio of approx. 6 schools and will be in each of their schools every week.

The staff in the MHST are recruited and trained in delivering low intensity cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), which is the NICE (the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) recommended treatment for depression and anxiety in children.

CBT will help children and young people by helping them to feel more resilient.

Low-intensity CBT practitioners are equipped with evidence-based tools and interventions for supporting children and young people with certain mental health difficulties.

What they do: - 

We are an early intervention team who work with new and emerging mental health needs.

We offer interventions to support with:

• Worry/anxiety
• Behaviour difficulties in primary aged children
• Low mood in secondary aged young people
• Simple phobias
• Psychoeducation and CBT-informed mental health techniques

Current support and advice services: -

MHST Free Live Webinars - advice and support for parents and carers - to register for the up and coming webinars please click on the image below: -

Useful Links and Guidance:

Listed below are website links which may be of interest to you/your child to support with their health and wellbeing.

Please note that Burnham Grammar School cannot be held responsible for the content of external websites.