I'm going to test out my live-streaming today as I hope this will be a useful feature in the future. Ask your questions about how to support student and staff wellbeing during COVID19 as schools face closure due to the corona virus and I'll answer as best as I can.

Jump straight to question you're interested in:
01:00 - how can we support children attending school when it will be so different to normal
04:30 - Coping with contagious anxiety
09:43 - any suggestions for wellbeing activities we could suggest to schools for YP in school around peer to peer support and reassurance ?
14:18 - Experienced a psychosomatic attack yesterday evening , walls in my dorms have slowly being filled by health safety warnings and it kinda broke me yesterday. Any suggestions on coping with that ?
18:00 - I would love to hear about simple techniques families can use at home to help anxiety
22:15 - Please speak about how to balance parental anxiety about children falling behind with education and the need to prioritise children’s mental health during this crisis
26:45 - Advice for parents home working and with children home schooling
30:00 - And be optimistic. China has reported no new cases of Coronavirus for the second day in succession.

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