Mr. Shane O'Connor:

In our experience, we had activities that were peer-based and based around year bonding. That really brought us together as a year group. We had ours in September and it brought us together for the year. We have seen across schools that when people can rely on a community and they are all tightly knit, it has a very positive impact. Where schools have a social-pastoral system where students mix together positively, as well as students and teachers, it has positive effects on students' mental well-being, and that is correlated to all the other areas of social development and physical health. In our experience in our school, we certainly have seen that positive actions have had positive impacts, and that is also to be seen in other schools.

It is important to reinforce that students and teachers are very aware of the literature around mental health and mental well-being. That was emphasised again and again. They really think that something like going for a walk will make a real, exponential difference to students. We have seen throughout the survey and the study that small actions have massive impacts.