There is growing national and international concern about the mental health of children and young people, and in countries such as England there is now a political and policy commitment to developing whole-school approaches to mental health. This paper presents new evidence on how pupils’ mental health is being addressed in schools using learning activities associated with physical education, sport and physical activity, as part of a school-based sport- and mental health-themed programme (‘Tackling the Blues’) for pupils aged 6–16 years old in north-west England. In particular, we examine how pupil-centred learning activities have been used in weekly multi-sport activity sessions and related classroom-based workshops, and draw upon insight from 29 focus groups to explore pupils’ (n = 116) mental health awareness and associated socio-emotional learning (SEL). The learning activities led pupils to focus on the impact personal relationships with family and friends, feelings and emotions, and experiences of stress, anger and entrapment can have on mental health. It is argued that embedding socially relevant learning activities into the content, organisation and delivery of school curricula may help improve pupils’ sense of enjoyment, participation and achievement which are important for enhancing their knowledge and awareness of mental health, and developing SEL. However, we conclude that the effectiveness of whole-school approaches also depends, perhaps to a greater degree, on the wider educational systems in which schools are located and especially the widening social, economic and health inequalities which have profound impacts on child development, educational and other outcomes, and mental health.

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通过教育和体育发展年轻人的心理健康意识：解决蓝调计划的见解

国内外越来越关注儿童和年轻人的心理健康，在诸如英国这样的国家中，现在有一项政治和政策承诺，致力于发展整个学校的心理健康方法。本文提供了新的证据，表明在学校中如何利用与体育教育，体育和体育活动相关的学习活动来解决学生的心理健康问题，这是基于学校的以体育和精神卫生为主题的计划的一部分（“应对蓝调” ）适用于英格兰西北地区6至16岁的学生。特别是，我们研究了在每周一次的多运动活动课程和相关的课堂讲习班中如何使用以学生为中心的学习活动，并利用29个焦点小组的见解来探索学生（n = 116）的心理健康意识和相关的社会情感学习（SEL）。这些学习活动使学生将注意力集中在与家人和朋友的个人关系，感觉和情感以及压力，愤怒和陷害经历对心理健康的影响上。有人认为，将与社会相关的学习活动嵌入学校课程的内容，组织和交付中可能有助于改善学生的享受，参与和成就感，这对于增强他们对心理健康的认识和认识以及发展SEL非常重要。但是，我们得出的结论是，整个学校教学方法的有效性在很大程度上也可能取决于，