Hazelwood Integrated College

Mrs Aine Leslie – Assistant Principal of Hazelwood College said after our Uberheroes® facilitators and Actors made a return visit to the school – “Hazelwood College greatly values the work of the Uberheroes® programme with our Year 9 students. We were privileged to be selected to be part of a working focus group party in the planning stages as well as participating in the drama and the facilitation groups facilitated by our Drama Department. Each pupil watched the drama, took part in group discussions where they chatted through options and outcomes for the characters in the stories. They also received a signed copy of the first edition comic as did the school, the students learnt about ways to cope and actions to take if they were being bullied or considering self-harm. The Uberheroes® facilitation programme was engaging and thought provoking as well as offering an opportunity for our Year 9 students to have their pictures taken with the characters being a memorable event. Uberheroes® supports LLW programmes of study like those aiming to reduce alcohol and drug misuse, which alone can be limiting. The College is very much aware of the strong evidence linking academic achievement to mental health and wellbeing, to this end Uberheroes® has been used by the College as a powerful tool to promote resilience in our students in an age appropriate way. It is widely recognised that a child’s emotional health and wellbeing influences their cognitive development and learning as well as their physical and social health and their mental wellbeing in adulthood. We look forward to furthering our relationship and involvement in this vital and invaluable programme helping our students to learn more about how to keep themselves emotionally healthy as well as enabling us to have other resources available to us to enable us to ensure that in all ways we are promoting and empowering the overall wellbeing of our students”