Sir Ashley Bloomfield promotes Pause Breathe Smile programme
Sir Ashley Bloomfield has partnered with Southern Cross to promote the Pause Breathe Smile programme.
“I’m very excited about supporting Pause Breathe Smile as a way to help our children be more resilient, positive, and ready to face challenging situations in their own lives.”
Aimed at supporting mental health and wellbeing among children, Pause Breathe Smile is funded by Southern Cross and is available to all kura, primary and intermediate schools in New Zealand. Over 114,000 children across more than 400 schools had completed the programme since Southern Cross partnered with the Pause Breathe Smile Charitable Trust in 2020.
Survey results show the efficacy and importance of the programme. Chris White, CEO of Southern Cross Healthcare, said
“More than 1,000 responses from educators trained in Pause Breathe Smile showed that positive behaviour in the classroom increased by 12.4 per cent and negative behaviour in the classroom reduced by 10.1 per cent. We were also excited to see that 12 months on from introducing PBS, general student wellbeing was up 16.6 per cent and that the number of students flourishing increased by 8.1 per cent.”
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