World Mental Health Day falls on October 10 every year, with students at St. Joseph’s College, Enniskillen, hosting their Feeling Good Week this year to coincide with the important day.

Looking back on the important week for the school, Cara Lynch, head of Pastoral Care at St. Joseph's, said: "The main objective of Feeling Good Week is to educate our students on important issues that affect their lives every day.

"The theme of World Mental Day this year was 'To make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority'.

"In order to educate and inform our students, the school was supported by a number of external agencies which came in and delivered a range of excellent, informative and engaging workshops."

The following organisations delivered talks as part of the week’s activities: Love for Life, Theresa Mullan Burke (Drug Awareness), Trevor Kirke and Rachel Harkness (the PSNI), New Driver NI, Action Mental Health, Nexus, Cara Friend, Aware, and the Enniskillen Fire Service.

Feeling Good Week concluded with ‘Tracksuit Day’, with all students participating on Friday afternoon in a different sporting activity.

Hopefully, the activities and workshops that the students attended will inform their decision-making and help them to make good choices in all aspects of their lives.

As part of the week, the PSNI gave Year 8 students an insight into greater awareness of road safety issues, while New Driver NI delivered a very worthwhile workshop to Key Stage 5 students on safe motoring.

A key aspect of Feeling Good Week is to increase students' awareness of issues and topics that are impacting on their lives. Year 12 students welcomed a workshop delivered by Theresa Mullan Burke.

The key message that Theresa wanted to get across was the danger of drug taking and how it can quickly spiral into a severe addiction, and how life-changing events can sadly occur.

Her presentation was very personal and truthful, with the content providing for increased awareness and understanding of the danger of drug use.

Love For Life delivered their 'Icebergs and Babies' workshop to all of Year 11, with the workshop designed to help 13- to 15-year-olds to identify and respond to influences and pressures around relationships and sex, as well as exploring the skills and values needed to build healthy relationships.

Topics covered included identity and value, the impact of media and peer pressure, body image and social media, pornography, sexting and sharing online, attitudes to and expectations around sex and relationships, communication in relationships, consent, pregnancy, STIs, contraception, teenage parenting, adoption and abortion.

Year 11 students were well engaged in the workshop, that was delivered by two excellent facilitators, helping to increase awareness amongst this year group of some very important issues in relation to healthy relationships.

Finally, Year 12 students also received an excellent presentation by Eilish Brown from Nexus, with her workshop focusing on healthy and unhealthy relationships, cybersafety and online grooming, sexting, consent, body image, sexual exploitation and social media.

The Feeling Good Week events held by St. Joseph's, as well as the focus on World Mental Health Day, will hopefully have helped to educate the students on a wide range of contemporary issues, as well as give them the insight and tools to care for their mental health, and that of others.