PG Cert

Leadership of School Mental Health and Wellbeing

Teaching & Learning

Distance learning

We understand that full-time study does not suit everyone. That’s why we offer courses which give you the opportunity to decide where, when and how you can get involved in learning. Studying a distance learning course offers the convenience and flexibility to make education work for you. Whether you’d like to fit your studies around childcare, develop your skills while working or, quite simply, want to learn from the comfort of your own home, we can help you gain a qualification at a time and pace that suits your lifestyle.

Like our students on campus, you’ll have the same excellent teaching and learning resources, however you’ll find these online instead of a lecture theatre. Not only are all the modules taught online, but you’ll also have access to an online community and more than 140,000 books and journals in our online library.

Technical requirements for distance learning study are detailed in the full guide. Visit our distance learning website for more information.

We’ll support your learning on this course by online lectures, webinars, an online learning tutor, audio-visual materials and additional online reading. Your lectures and webinars will take place in the evenings, and you’ll be able to access them from anywhere in the world via Microsoft Teams. If you’re a distance learning student or are studying from outside the UK, we offer occasional online 1-1 tutorials at times to suit you. All sessions will be recorded and made available to you.

What you'll learn

The Department for Education are drawing on the 'emerging evidence base' around the whole school approach towards mental health. This module explores these models, looks at their strengths and limitations and enables you as a school leader to decide on the model, or adaptation of a model, which is most suitable and helpful to your setting.
Explore change models, summarising the improvements that you wish to see for your school and apply this to strengthen your school's strategy towards mental health. You will discover models of whole school change and child mental health implementation models. You will also study models of critical professional reflection, deepening your skills as a leader to identify whole school needs and bring about sustainable change.
Explore how resilience is formed in a student by looking at attachment theory, the effect of cognition and the neurobiology of resilience. You will examine ways other schools have tried to develop the resilience of their students, for example, grit, growth mindset and meditation. You will evaluate the 'trait' vs 'learned skill' of resilience as an argument, audit your own school’s resilience practices and complete an analysis of where your school is in terms of resources, benefits and limitations.
The Department for Education are drawing on the 'emerging evidence base' around the whole school approach towards mental health. This module explores these models, looks at their strengths and limitations and enables you as a school leader to decide on the model, or adaptation of a model, which is most suitable and helpful to your setting.
Explore change models, summarising the improvements that you wish to see for your school and apply this to strengthen your school's strategy towards mental health. You will discover models of whole school change and child mental health implementation models. You will also study models of critical professional reflection, deepening your skills as a leader to identify whole school needs and bring about sustainable change.
Explore how resilience is formed in a student by looking at attachment theory, the effect of cognition and the neurobiology of resilience. You will examine ways other schools have tried to develop the resilience of their students, for example, grit, growth mindset and meditation. You will evaluate the 'trait' vs 'learned skill' of resilience as an argument, audit your own school’s resilience practices and complete an analysis of where your school is in terms of resources, benefits and limitations.