World Mental Health Day 2025 Presentation for Primary Schools - Downloadable PDF

15-slide interactive PDF with two engaging activities: Feelings First Aid Kit and Helper Hand - designed especially for KS1 & KS2 pupils.

World Mental Health Day (WMHD) is an important opportunity to start meaningful conversations with children about their thoughts, feelings, and wellbeing. Teaching mental health early helps children build emotional literacy, resilience, and healthy coping skills they can carry for life.

This ready-to-use Primary School World Mental Health Day 2025 Presentation is designed to make teaching mental health simple, safe, and engaging. With bright, child-friendly slides and two printable activities - Feelings First Aid Kit and Helper Hand - pupils are encouraged to explore their feelings, identify their support networks, and learn positive ways to look after their mental health.

Whether you’re a teacher, wellbeing lead, school counsellor, or PSHE coordinator, this resource takes the stress out of planning for World Mental Health Day and ensures that your school can celebrate in a thoughtful, child-friendly way.

Features

• 15 engaging slides with simple, child-friendly explanations of mental health and this year’s theme.

• 2 optional activities designed for younger learners (download separately):

  • Feelings First Aid Kit: children create their own toolkit of strategies to use when tricky feelings arise.

  • Helper Hand: pupils draw/write trusted people or services who can help during tricky times.

• Bright, visual design to keep younger pupils engaged.

• Flexible session length - run as a 20–40 minute assembly, class PSHE lesson, or wellbeing session.

About This Resource

This resource has been created specifically for primary schools in the UK, with KS1 and KS2 in mind. The content avoids scary or overwhelming language (no heavy focus on disasters/catastrophes), and instead reframes this year’s theme - Access to Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies - into an age-appropriate focus: “In tricky times, helpers are everywhere.”

The presentation introduces what mental health means, why it matters, and how children can find support when they need it. Interactive discussions are built into the slides, giving children opportunities to share feelings, think about helpers in their own lives, and take part in fun, reflective activities.

World Mental Health Day 2025

The official WMHD 2025 theme is “Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies: Access to Services.” For young children, we’ve adapted this to a friendlier and more relatable version: “In tricky times, helpers are everywhere.”

Children may not directly experience global emergencies, but they do face personal and community “tricky times” such as moving house, losing a pet, falling out with a friend, or experiencing changes at home. This resource helps children understand that in all kinds of tricky times, support is available and talking about feelings is always important.

Benefits

• Saves planning time - everything you need is ready to go.

• Age-appropriate content - sensitive, positive, and child-friendly.

• Encourages emotional literacy - children learn to name feelings and coping strategies.

• Supports PSHE curriculum - links to wellbeing, resilience, and safeguarding.

• Promotes inclusivity - highlights a range of helpers (family, school staff, services).

• Hands-on learning - interactive activities help children remember what they’ve learned.

• Flexible use - ideal for assemblies, class lessons, or small group sessions.

How to Use

1. Download and open the PDF presentation.

2. Introduce World Mental Health Day with the first few slides.

3. Guide pupils through the discussion prompts (feelings, tricky times, who helps us).

4. Run the activities:

   • Helper Hand can be completed in class, displayed on a wellbeing wall, or taken home.

   • Feelings First Aid Kit can be personalised by each child and kept in their desk or bag as a coping reminder.

5. Close with the final slide reminding pupils: “Tricky times happen to everyone. But there are always helpers around us, and there are always things we can do to feel a little better.”

Suggested Uses

• Whole-school assembly for World Mental Health Day.

• Class PSHE lesson or circle time session.

• Wellbeing week activity in October.

• Small group work with school counsellors or pastoral leads.

• Home learning pack to involve parents and carers in the conversation.

This Primary School World Mental Health Day Presentation makes it easy for teachers to run a thoughtful, engaging session on mental health. With 15 slides and two hands-on activities -Helper Hand and Feelings First Aid Kit - children will learn what mental health is, how to talk about their feelings, and where to find help in tricky times.

It’s positive, reassuring, and completely age-appropriate - the perfect way for your school to take part in World Mental Health Day 2025.

Download the Primary School WMHD 2025 Presentation today and give children the tools, confidence, and language to look after their mental health.