Sunderland pupils get back to nature with community garden project to help their mental wellbeing

Southmoor Academy Sixth Form students have been taking part in a gardening initiative to support their mental wellbeing.

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00:00Okay, so it's how stressed are the students at the School of Morgue?

00:21With exams and everything going on at the minute, it's like really quite stressful for

00:25everyone because always when you need to go into the evening about it's when you should

00:30wake up and get up for your exams. It's just quite stressful because it's a lot that we

00:34have to think about.

00:36I understand this gardening project's been set up to help alleviate some of that stress

00:40and you know, help you with your mental health, is that right?

00:42Yeah, our school like focuses a lot on mental health and we have like a really strong pastoral

00:47team which tries to help us with mental health and that all the time and this is one of the

00:51ideas that they came up with to just get us out of school, take our minds off exams a bit

00:56and just kind of day-stress and lift up all the sort of...

00:59Has it helped?

01:00Yeah, I'd say it has. It's nice to like get away to do something a bit different and it's

01:06like, it's not something we could do, like would do at home, so it's just something completely

01:12new and it's like outdoors, it's fresh, it's like you're just really getting something

01:17done, it's nice to see all the growth that's like happened over the past couple of months.