Celebrating All Saints C of E Primary School, Merton

We’re delighted to celebrate the fantastic achievement of All Saints C of E Primary School in Merton, which has successfully received both the Mayor of London’s Healthy Schools London Silver and Gold Awards, using its work with stormbreak and Shine Pathways as evidence of its commitment to supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing.

This is a wonderful recognition of the school’s dedication to embedding mentally healthy movement into everyday practice and demonstrating the positive impact this is having on its pupils.

The Healthy Schools London Awards celebrate schools that put the health and wellbeing of their pupils at the heart of school life. To achieve the Silver Award, schools identify a health and wellbeing priority, understand the needs of their pupils and develop an approach with clear, measurable outcomes. The Gold Award builds on this by recognising schools that can evaluate the impact of their work, share what they have learnt and demonstrate how effective practice will be sustained.

All Saints C of E Primary School has successfully achieved both awards, using its implementation of the stormbreak approach and Shine Pathways to provide meaningful evidence of the difference it is making to children's mental health and wellbeing.

Putting mental health and wellbeing into everyday practice

All Saints C of E Primary School chose mental health and wellbeing as its priority, focusing on pupils experiencing additional needs and barriers to emotional regulation, wellbeing and learning.

As part of its approach, the school used stormbreak Shine with a targeted group of pupils. Between March and July 2026, pupils completed a 12-session Shine Pathway, combining resilience and self-care activities with opportunities for movement, reflection and connection with trusted adults.

Shine Pathways also helped the school capture and demonstrate its impact through wellbeing check-ins, pathway progress and dashboard data, alongside staff observations and behaviour monitoring. This evidence contributed to the school's successful Healthy Schools London Silver and Gold Award applications, demonstrating the positive difference its approach was making to pupils' mental health and wellbeing.

Seeing the difference

The outcomes from All Saints C of E Primary School’s use of stormbreak Shine have been really encouraging:

• 91% of recorded wellbeing check-ins were positive, indicating positive experiences during the activities.
• Pupils showed improvements in their emotional regulation.
• Pupils became more willing to seek support from trusted adults.
• Pupils developed greater confidence in using regulation strategies before situations escalated.
• Staff observations and behaviour monitoring provided further evidence of positive change.

Importantly, the impact has extended beyond the children using Shine Pathways. All Saints C of E Primary School also provided a stormbreak approach refresher training for staff, strengthening understanding of mentally healthy movement and emotional regulation and helping to build a shared and consistent approach across the school.

Building an approach to mental health and wellbeing that lasts

Achieving both the Silver and Gold Healthy Schools London Awards is a fantastic milestone, but the school's commitment to supporting children's mental health and wellbeing doesn't stop there.

All Saints C of E Primary School plans to further embed stormbreak movement and emotional regulation approaches into everyday classroom practice, alongside continuing to use Shine Pathways to provide more targeted early support for children who may benefit from it.

This is a brilliant example of how mentally healthy movement can become an integral part of a whole-school approach to children's mental health and wellbeing – from developing a positive whole-school culture and embedding universal classroom practice through to providing targeted early support.

It also demonstrates how schools can use stormbreak not only to support children's mental health and wellbeing, but also to gather meaningful evidence, evaluate their impact and celebrate the difference they are making.

Congratulations to All Saints C of E Primary School!

A huge congratulations to the whole team at All Saints C of E Primary School on achieving both the Healthy Schools London Silver and Gold Awards!

We are delighted that stormbreak and Shine Pathways have played a part in this achievement and helped the school demonstrate its commitment to supporting children's mental health and wellbeing.

We hope All Saints' success inspires other schools to explore how stormbreak and Shine Pathways can support their own whole-school wellbeing priorities, provide evidence of positive outcomes and contribute to their Healthy Schools London journey.

Find out more about how stormbreak can support your school to embed mentally healthy movement and make a positive difference to children's mental health and wellbeing. Contact us at hello@stormbreak.org.uk