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**Latest MELVA News**
Melva Mapletree and the Quest for Barnabas Boggle is available NOW!
Our new online, interactive storytelling game - is now available for schools to purchase. This innovative new resource is your one-stop tool to support children's everyday mental and emotional health, both in the classroom and for families to use at home.
CLICK HERE TO ENQUIRE
Melva Mapletree and the Quest for Barnabas Boggle is available NOW!
Our new online, interactive storytelling game - is now available for schools to purchase. This innovative new resource is your one-stop tool to support children's everyday mental and emotional health, both in the classroom and for families to use at home.
CLICK HERE TO ENQUIRE
MELVA is a creative intervention programme for key stage two children, their teachers and families. It was designed in response to the 2017 green paper Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision and the recommendations of the 2015 Future in Mind report to focus on early intervention and prevention.
MELVA centres around the story of a nearly-11-year-old girl, Melva Mapletree, whose struggles with anxiety, trauma and bereavement (or ‘worrits’ as she calls them), keep her from doing all exciting new things, and sometimes mean she can't even leave her house.
The aim of the MELVA programme is to use theatre, storytelling and practical activities to:
The programme started life as a live performance package, and has since been developed into a digital resource - meaning that we can continue to support young people - all over the country - during the challenging circumstances of Covid-19 and beyond.
MELVA centres around the story of a nearly-11-year-old girl, Melva Mapletree, whose struggles with anxiety, trauma and bereavement (or ‘worrits’ as she calls them), keep her from doing all exciting new things, and sometimes mean she can't even leave her house.
The aim of the MELVA programme is to use theatre, storytelling and practical activities to:
- Help young people better understand their worries and anxiety
- Provide young people, their teachers and their families with child-friendly, accessible language to talk about and deal with mental health and wellbeing
- Address mental health stigma by encouraging open conversations between young people, their peers, and the adults in their lives about worries and anxieties
The programme started life as a live performance package, and has since been developed into a digital resource - meaning that we can continue to support young people - all over the country - during the challenging circumstances of Covid-19 and beyond.
"Melva is simply the best drama intervention I have ever seen [...] the rewards are instant and long-lasting"
HEADTEACHER, PARTICIPATING SCHOOL
Find out more about the different MELVA resources available to schools right now:
Melva Mapletree and the Quest for Barnabas Boggle
The online MELVA game Interactive storytelling game for KS2 students and their families |
Melva
The live stage show and in-school theatre package *This project is currently on hold until Autumn 2022* |
