Practical emotional wellbeing and resilience programmes for your primary school.
Give children practical ways to understand their feelings, build coping skills and develop resilience. Fresh Little Minds combines creative learning with the AMBER Approach, giving adults a clear structure and resources to support children’s emotional wellbeing.
Choose a programme delivered by an approved Fresh Little Minds practitioner, or build your school’s capacity through FLM Sunrise, which trains and equips your own Key Stage 1 staff.
Fresh Little Minds in schools
Children learn through experiences, relationships and opportunities to practise. Fresh Little Minds brings emotional wellbeing into school life through structured, creative activities and practical tools that adults and children can use together.
Our approach helps schools develop shared language around feelings and coping, with resources that make the learning visible and accessible in the classroom.
Our reach and impact
36,778 children
have taken part in Fresh Little Minds.
53 schools
have been involved.
128 teachers and school staff
have been trained.
The AMBER Approach
The AMBER Approach sits at the heart of Fresh Little Minds. Anchor, Move, Breathe, Express and Relax provide a shared framework for supporting emotional wellbeing through practical activities and classroom resources.
Staff introduce the approach through the programme and can return to its tools throughout the school day, helping children connect their learning with everyday experiences.
Choose how Fresh Little Minds works in your school
FLM Sunrise
FLM Sunrise equips Key Stage 1 teachers and school staff to deliver Fresh Little Minds within their own classrooms. Schools receive training, physical and digital resources, evaluation tools and support throughout delivery.
The trained adult remains in the classroom, where the programme’s tools and approaches can become part of everyday school life. Sunrise is aligned with the Northern Ireland PDMU curriculum at Key Stage 1.
Train your staff. Equip your classrooms. Build lasting capacity.
FLM GROW and INSPIRE
Fresh Little Minds GROW and INSPIRE are delivered directly by approved or licensed Fresh Little Minds practitioners. Contact us to discuss your pupils’ needs and which programme may suit your school.
See Fresh Little Minds in action
Explore the resources and activities that bring Fresh Little Minds into the classroom, and hear from the schools that have used the programme.
Teacher Feedback
“It was very child friendly, everything was pitched at the right level for this age group. Activities and lessons were colourful, engaging and enjoyable. Children were able to really think about feelings and emotions and useful ways that they could help to cope with their emotions.”
“The SUNRISE program has benefitted our P3 and P4 pupils with understanding their emotions better in an entertaining way through a mix of songs, videos, activities and discussions”
Bring Fresh Little Minds to your school
Explore Sunrise if you want to train and equip your own Key Stage 1 staff, or contact our team to discuss practitioner-led delivery.