WELL-BEING
WELL-BEING
Promoting Student Well-being in a Fun and Engaging Manner By James Broadhurst and Charlie Golsby, Year 13
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ETS, short for Let’s Erase the Stigma, is a student run CAT club at Bangkok Patana which aims to erase the stigma surrounding mental health, through raising awareness and promoting well-being. We aim to do this in a manner relevant to concerned students, via fun and playful media. The club meets every Thursday, during lunch, to come up with ways to provide the student body with the necessary information to nurture their own mental health, as well as information to raise awareness about mental health issues. As our academics, friendships and daily lives may be stressful, we find it important to be an approachable, compassionate and committed member of the Patana community. Unsurprisingly, the Coronavirus had an impact on our club and the school. Being unable to pursue academics at school may have been disorientating and stressful for some. Hence, we found that it was of paramount importance to continue our well-being aims during lockdown. We have to accept that such uncertainties are part of the ‘new norm’ and thus we must be prepared for it. Over time, we would like to help people make this transition with more ease and less worries. Now, back at school and in our final year at Bangkok Patana, we wanted to get LETS off to a flying start. With lockdown and online learning behind us (hopefully!) we planned to help students to re-acclimate to student life on campus, including the added safety restrictions, such as masks and temperature scans. In order to increase the size of the club, and to help stir support for our cause, we participated in the CAT/CAS Fair. This year, we were delighted to have more new members than ever before, particularly in the lower half of the Secondary School; this is very encouraging, as it means our message and aims are being heard. Our stall at the CAT/CAS Fair took advantage of the current craze surrounding TikTok and took to the Lounge 8
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