Hamish & Milo programme contents
Our comprehensive wellbeing programme pack comes with all the time-saving resources you need, from session plans to reward stickers, templates to planning tools, training and supervision to digital impact reporting.
‘A programme in a box’ is how it has been described
Each 10-week emotion theme pack has everything needed including practical reusable session plans.
A summary of the items included in each emotion theme pack

It outlines the rationale and explains how each of the core elements of the resource work together, as well as offering advice on how to run the sessions, and the approach needed by the pastoral team.
It also includes content on:
- Demonstrating Impact – details of all the impact measurement tools we provide as part of the programme.
- Session plans and their structure.
- Safeguarding.
- Training and supervision.

The card also details a comprehensive list of any extra resources that might be needed for the children to complete all the session activities, for example, pens, paper, leaves, jam jars etc.
We also provide free Champion Planning Journals which are digital PDFs that include the contents and resources, along with a place to keep notes, observations and reflections about the sessions and the children for easy reference.

Each theme pack has 10 session card plans, for a 10-week small group intervention programme delivered over a term. So the full programme includes 100 session plans.
The sessions cover a variety of activities and guided discussions. Each session has a clear format and structure that helps the children to feel contained and able to engage in the programme. In each session, the sock puppets play a part!
Each A5 session 400gsm card is finished with an anti-scuff laminate so it can withstand lots of use! They can all be stored in the session pack plastic box – the idea being that these can be used over and over for multiple groups of children.

By highlighting key aspects within these areas of mental health, it is expected that SENCOs and pastoral staff in schools will have a deeper awareness of the child’s mental health, the presenting behaviours and underlying needs and will enable them to notice, identify and provide targeted intervention and care.
Used pre and post-intervention they enable you to measure impact over time as well as inform any future intervention or support.
Digital options are available for free.

We include parent/carer booklets unique to each theme to help facilitate a shared dialogue and communication about the programme and how it works, each weekly activity and how they can support their children in the home environment too.
Digital copies are also available.

Our Hamish & Milo stickers are a wonderful way to show value, recognition and allow children to feel a sense of pride within themselves. Each sticker offers a motivational or rewarding phrase along with our cute Hamish and Milo characters!
We suggest that each child needs to receive a sticker at the end of each session, so there is a space for them in their wellbeing journal session pages. There are five sheets of 20 stickers included, each with a different message. There are also three extra sheets of special stickers which have a metallic finish. These can be awarded to the children for being extra special, perhaps showing bravery or kindness or trying something new.

Our Hamish & Milo certificates are a special award for the completion of the wellbeing intervention sessions. Celebration and recognition of success is central to our approach and we hope you love these certificates as much as the children, as a special award to help each child feel proud within.
Our certificates are A5 and printed on a high-quality card with space for writing the child’s names and a special message. There is one for each child in each session pack and you can buy extra certificates in batches online.

Our 48-page journals are an integral part of the intervention and can be taken home to be continued or used as a memoir for the children to reflect on.
Inside, the children can write and draw about themselves, their families and their pets. They have positive affirmation statements throughout and spaces for their stickers. They can write their reflections and feelings, as well as some fun elements, such as their favourite animal and a sock puppet profile!
Each child receives an A6 wellbeing journal. There are six included per session pack but you can order extras online too.

This wonderfully creative puppet-making activity also allows the children to be playful, creative and expressive. We encourage the pastoral staff to create a sock puppet with the children too, so they can ‘talk’ to the children via the puppet – so our packs include one set for the adult, too!
The sock puppet pet kits include everything you need – socks, googly eyes, buttons, felt, pom-poms, pipe cleaners and fabric glue. We include an instruction and advice card but allow the children the freedom to create any puppet they like!
The sock puppets will help the children join in with your discussions and to talk without fear about their feelings and experiences. We suggest they bring their puppets to each session so they can use them to speak with, or for them, and join in with the group’s activities!
Resource samples
Overview booklet
The 12-page overview booklet introduces the Hamish & Milo Wellbeing intervention programme. It outlines the contents, rationale and explains how each of the core elements of the resource works together. It offers advice for mental health champions and mental health leads, ELSAs, pastoral staff and SENCOs on how to run the sessions, and the approach.
Session plan examples
The complete programme has 100 session plan cards. There are ten key emotional theme packs and each theme pack has 10 session card plans, each to be delivered over a term. The session plans cover a variety of activities and guided discussions. Every session has a clear format and structure that helps the children to feel contained and includes:
- Welcome and check-in – preparing the group to be ready for the session
- Focus moment – introduces the theme and helps the children to know what the session will be about
- Focus insight – more information about the topic or theme bringing to the children’s attention a thought, an insight, a question, or a piece of information
- Activity – creative, expressive and engaging for the children. Each activity is an opportunity to use their thinking, learning and own expression to explore the theme and develop their ideas
- Reflection – through reflection the children consider their experiences or feelings helping them to understand and gain greater insights for themselves
Each A5 session card has an anti-scuff laminate so it can withstand lots of use – the idea being that these can be used over and over for multiple groups of children.
Read more on the wellbeing session plans activities and guided discussions
Child wellbeing profiles
The child wellbeing profiles have been designed as an impact measure to help identify specific areas of need within core areas of a child’s emotional health and development.
We know that measuring the impact of emotional wellbeing is difficult, but there are clear indicators of need that we can identify through presenting behaviours or an awareness of a child’s context. This can help us establish a clear baseline to then be able to track progress or development.
Use two colours pre- and post-intervention to measure impact whilst recording observations and reflections that may arise or use our free digital versions. Read more on child wellbeing profiles.
Parent and carer booklets
Enabling parents and carers and the school to work together in partnership and have a shared understanding of the child’s needs is vital.
We have developed these booklets to help them alongside the school to have a shared dialogue and communication about the programme, how it works and how they can support their children in the home environment too.
Wellbeing journals
Our special wellbeing journals give the children the chance to celebrate who they are and to build their self-esteem. They provide the opportunity to reflect on the wellbeing sessions as they move through the programme and they can write their reflections and feelings.
The children can also write and draw about themselves, their families and their pets. They have affirmation statements throughout and spaces for their reward and motivational stickers!
Certificates
Certificates are the perfect way to reward children for their achievements. They feel such a sense of pride and accomplishment when they are ‘awarded’ their certificate and the children will love the Hamish and Milo characters and bright and happy design!
Celebration and recognition of success is central to our approach and our Hamish & Milo certificates are a special award for the completion of the wellbeing intervention programme. Printed on a high-quality card with space for writing the child’s names and a special message. There is one for each child in each session pack and you can buy extra certificates in batches of 30 online.
Sock puppet kits instruction and advice card
Our sock puppets are an integral feature of our wellbeing programme. Puppets can be a powerful tool in enabling children to share their experiences and explore their emotions at a safe distance so that they can begin to understand and reflect on situations, feelings and the world around them.
The sock-puppet-making activity allows the children to be creative, imaginative and expressive and they can use them to speak with, or for, them and join in with the group’s activities!
We include an instruction and advice card in each session pack to help you with the basics.